Shoutbox

For the lack of a better name, I am here to show you a work in progress of my skin MesOrby. Basically, it will be similar to the current WLM, but it will have a spanning background (which will be user definable hopefully in the future) across all the main windows of WLM and the toasts. And all the elements within those windows will be enclosed inside transparent boxes.

So here is a preview of what I have been up to for the past month:


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Current Features:
- Ability to show/hide all the default WLM buttons in the dashboard
- Button made to open SKIN preferences
- Buttons from Mess Patch in skin by default (prefs, sign out, etc)
- Move the contact search bar to the bottom
- Hide the search bar completely
- Hide/show top black header (where the window buttons are)
- Changing WLM color changes the background image

Features currently in the works:
- Hide/show Plus! buttons
- Move entire top header to the bottom
- More backgrounds that colorize well
- Chat window options (gotta think of some)

Possible future features:
- Use different default emoticons
- Color themes for the transparent boxes (so they don't have to be white)
- User selectable background
- WLM 9.0 compatibility (probably not until final)

To-do list:
- Toasts
- Chat window layout (its almost done, but looks a bit sloppy)
- Change DP in main contact list window
- Minor fixes/tweaks/replacements
- Think of a better name
- Status icon replacements
- Window button replacement
- New images thru out messenger

Currently I have halted development since I started making the skin on a patched WLM, and it's gonna be a pain in the ass to transfer my changes over to a fresh unpatched messenger. So until I do that, I wont have an ETA on a release, but I just wanted to give everyone a preview of what will be available sometime next year . I don't think I left anything out...

Thoughts?