Patchou: 'Never look at Messenger the same way again'
Posted by absorbation on Sat 15 Mar 2008 (13:55 GMT)

Messenger Plus! 4.50 brought about new skinning technology for Messenger. Now it was possible to soft-patch resources, create skin options and even manipulate the basic window designs of Messenger. This can be seen in a simple form with Beaver and Steve, created by Nile. However, Patchou has big ambitions to expand this feature:

I'm happy to announce that sometime this year, a big skinning contest will be organised, benefiting both developers (prizes) and users (new, better skins). Details will be announced when appropriate but as of now, something new and cool has already been put in motion in the world of skins: Will Ingles, the creator of popular skins such as Ev0, as agreed to dedicate some of his time to the creation of new skins inspired by movies and music groups.


Your Messenger experience will never be the same, that's guaranteed, and you'll probably never want to go back to the original interface once you've tried a couple of skins either. Also, if you enjoy switching from one look to the other regularly, or, if you just don't want to miss the release of a skin related to a movie that you've been waiting for, sign up to Messenger Plus! Skins Alerts to get instant notifications.


All this news sounds very interesting, especially the upcoming skinning contest. Stay tuned for more information when it's available.

>> View Patchou's post
>> View a screenshot of the new skins
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Comment by Arrabia
Posted on Tue 18 Mar 2008 (15:20 GMT)
very nice technology


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