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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I would only work on a skin if it was possible in the old fashioned way. Plus's skinning doesn't offer the level of control I really like to have; like mouseover and animation effects (which appeared in the 2011 version anyway). I think MS wised up a bit and did well to allow a generous amount of control over the look of the client, but there's still the charm of using something sleek and skinned, something I miss.
It is actually possible to use realllly old clients by hexediting file version numbers. But I end up missing just a handful of the newer features (like animated display pics) which aren't possible in the old clients. I've also discarded all the resources I had for all my skinning, so I'd be re-learning and remaking anything from scratch, almost.
Any previous experience with making windows visual styles is great, as they are similar in many ways. It takes a lot of knowledge, patience, and experimentation.
and I don't specifically remember how to do those.. I'd need to study again to offer any more advice. There will be plenty of resources on the net.
I feel less motivated to do wlm skinning, the ability to customize 'out of the box' has really improved in new versions.
And, endless other projects are begging for attention.
We still have the memory of this awesome skin, I haven't seen a single skin that comes close to matching it