Trillian Library request
Monday, March 29, 2004 by fduiven | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Just wondering... is there going to be one?
I find a couple of references to it on this message board. First one was somewhere in 2001. Last reference was October last year. Even a poll was held, I believe.
I find a couple of references to it on this message board. First one was somewhere in 2001. Last reference was October last year. Even a poll was held, I believe.
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MadPyro
Reply #3 Monday, March 29, 2004 12:52 PM
Reply #3 Monday, March 29, 2004 12:52 PM
MadPyro jumps into the bandwagon yelling "FOLLOW ME EVERYONE!"
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HG_Eliminator
Reply #4 Monday, March 29, 2004 9:37 PM
Reply #4 Monday, March 29, 2004 9:37 PM
id like to see a trillian section as well. as far as i can find theres only a few skins made for trillian. but im not sure if there is many skinners here who would be interested ..
many have been trying to get a rainlander section posted (most WB's and sysmetrix skins now have matching ranys included in the zips) ...
many have been trying to get a rainlander section posted (most WB's and sysmetrix skins now have matching ranys included in the zips) ...
UpsideDownGC
Reply #5 Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:07 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:07 AM
I would too, I dont like having to go to the Trillain website for my skins, their interface is annoying. I payed for it and thought that there were more skins available than actually are. Please add a Trillian Pro Section
DesignCaddy
Reply #6 Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:06 PM
Reply #6 Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:06 PM
deviant art has them, and some random download sites. but i think we're all unanimously avoiding deviant art for its.. lack of navigation. and i totaly hear ya on trillian's web site.. can't find a damn thing there.
would definitly like to see what people here can do to trillian.
would definitly like to see what people here can do to trillian.
GhoS
Reply #7 Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6:52 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6:52 PM
This request was made before. It is hopeful that a trillian section will be added at some point. I agree that deviantart has them, but their interface completely turns me off to the site, as well as being a slow site to load on dailup. However it seems the main trillian site rarely has new skins which makes me wonder how many people are even making skins for it.
Most of the skins lack any imagination so I'm forced to stick with a skin that is ok, but at least is an improvement over the default.
Most of the skins lack any imagination so I'm forced to stick with a skin that is ok, but at least is an improvement over the default.
Island Dog
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:46 AM
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:46 AM
Has anyone tried making a trillian skin? How hard is it?
fduiven
Reply #9 Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:55 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:55 PM
I'm working on a Trillian(.74) skin right now. I don't have that much experience in skinning. (made 1 winamp skin).
But the basics all stay the same I guess. You have your images, and with some xml language you put them back together. The xml tags may differ a bit, but the principle stays the same.
But the basics all stay the same I guess. You have your images, and with some xml language you put them back together. The xml tags may differ a bit, but the principle stays the same.
Koasati
Reply #10 Wednesday, March 31, 2004 1:02 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, March 31, 2004 1:02 PM
| Has anyone tried making a trillian skin? How hard is it? |
I haven't tried to make one yet, but Alexandrie tells me it's not easy to skin at all.
I can't find a skin I truly like. Beacon is ok, except some of the mouse-overs are misaligned, and I can't read the font. I tried to change the font, but had no luck. 
I was going to try to fix the mouse-overs too, but the format is not vert friendly IMHO, and I decided I'd wait and figure it out later, after the GUIO is over.
If I could only change that 'Hoodge' font, to something I can read, or even increase the size, I could put up with the mouse-overs for now........
ama02
Reply #11 Wednesday, March 31, 2004 3:44 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, March 31, 2004 3:44 PM
I would love to see a Trillian (Pro) library. When I bought the skin suite PixOS, it came with a trillian skin, which I use a LOT. I also use the default skin. I noticed different skins have different features (emoticons,sounds,etc). I agree about Trillian's website...most of the skins are outdated. 
fduiven
Reply #12 Thursday, April 1, 2004 5:58 AM
Reply #12 Thursday, April 1, 2004 5:58 AM
This is the Trillian skin I'm working on: http://www.geocities.com/gabrz/copperdeck/copperdeck.html
It's almost finished... so hurry up with implementing the Trillian library
It's almost finished... so hurry up with implementing the Trillian library
moshi
Reply #14 Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:20 AM
how about just ping all XML files at once into a tabbed text editor and do a find/replace for all files? just be careful not to click "Replace All At Once" as you have to go through this step by step (you have to change the font size as well).
free tabbed text editors:
NoteTab Light (easy to use) http://www.notetab.com/
SciTE (one of my personal favs, configured with text files, so for power users only) http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Reply #14 Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:20 AM
| If I could only change that 'Hoodge' font, to something I can read, or even increase the size, I could put up with the mouse-overs for now........ |
how about just ping all XML files at once into a tabbed text editor and do a find/replace for all files? just be careful not to click "Replace All At Once" as you have to go through this step by step (you have to change the font size as well).
free tabbed text editors:
NoteTab Light (easy to use) http://www.notetab.com/
SciTE (one of my personal favs, configured with text files, so for power users only) http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
ispidermonkey21
Reply #17 Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:13 AM
Reply #17 Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:13 AM
I am working on my own Trillian skin because I haven’t found any good yet. I believe if wincustomize puts a section for them you will be amazed at the response, there will be a lot of Trillian skins going up, there are a lot of people out there skinning it, just none of them are posting it because all the sites suck that have Trillian skins. However this is just one mans option.
XX
Reply #18 Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:39 AM
Reply #18 Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:39 AM
I just wish that windowblinds could export a custom trillian skin to match the overall look.
GhoS
Reply #19 Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:48 PM
Reply #19 Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:48 PM
Well if not windowblinds, then certainly SkinStudio, which incidentily supports Windows Media Player skin creation. However I don't believe Trillian can be supported in this way, its too difficult I imagine. I haven't tried the WMP conversion in SkinStudio, but I imagine its relatively speaking a boring skin.
I agree that Trillians skins overall don't seem to have much imagination for the ones I have seen. There have been polls here about having a section, however the winner of the last poll was Rainlender and that section has still not appeared.
I agree that Trillians skins overall don't seem to have much imagination for the ones I have seen. There have been polls here about having a section, however the winner of the last poll was Rainlender and that section has still not appeared.
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Reply #1 Monday, March 29, 2004 12:47 PM