Cunjo
09 Nov 2007, 02:58 PM
Alternate thread title: what it would take to make me a paying user.
I really don't like the default Trillian skin, and it is seriously lacking in skins that work for me, because I want it to match whatever Windows theme I'm using at the time.
When I'm using the standard Windows GUI, I use the silver XP one or the WinNT/2k scheme with dark grey and silver. There really aren't a lot of skins to go with that, and fewer still that I'd want to use.
I also often use WindowBlinds with themes like Cyrix, DarkStar and others. Since Trillian doesn't have skins to match these themes, no matter what I pick, I can't get it looking right - it always clashes.
I happen to be a fan of red on black, and minimalist GUIs. There just aren't any.
It simply isn't plausible for someone like me who doesn't have a lot of free time or money to burn to make a skin myself to go with every Windows theme I use, or to hire someone else to do it for me.
All of these things could be addressed with one of two features:
1) The ability to turn off Trillian skinning altogether and use the same skin as Windows, including any changes made by third-party skinning applications such as WindowBlinds
2) A method for altering the color scheme of the currently active skin (or even just the default Trillian skin) The idea being that by adjusting a 'base' color and a 'highlight' color, all of the elements of the Trillian skin would change in hue to go with it. A more rudimentary possibility that may still work would be to just have a master hue slider.
I really don't like the default Trillian skin, and it is seriously lacking in skins that work for me, because I want it to match whatever Windows theme I'm using at the time.
When I'm using the standard Windows GUI, I use the silver XP one or the WinNT/2k scheme with dark grey and silver. There really aren't a lot of skins to go with that, and fewer still that I'd want to use.
I also often use WindowBlinds with themes like Cyrix, DarkStar and others. Since Trillian doesn't have skins to match these themes, no matter what I pick, I can't get it looking right - it always clashes.
I happen to be a fan of red on black, and minimalist GUIs. There just aren't any.
It simply isn't plausible for someone like me who doesn't have a lot of free time or money to burn to make a skin myself to go with every Windows theme I use, or to hire someone else to do it for me.
All of these things could be addressed with one of two features:
1) The ability to turn off Trillian skinning altogether and use the same skin as Windows, including any changes made by third-party skinning applications such as WindowBlinds
2) A method for altering the color scheme of the currently active skin (or even just the default Trillian skin) The idea being that by adjusting a 'base' color and a 'highlight' color, all of the elements of the Trillian skin would change in hue to go with it. A more rudimentary possibility that may still work would be to just have a master hue slider.