Fuse: A simple yet beautiful skin for Messenger


Posted by absorbation on Fri 05 Jun 2009 (19:44 GMT) (1857 views)
Willz's skins have always been well received and generate great popular support around them. Now the top Messenger skinner has released another new skin called Fuse. Here is the announcement from his website, Design Evolved:

Fuse is something I have been working on and off for the past few months. Messenger 9's layout is difficult to manipulate when it comes to taking down the extra space Microsoft added in.


With every skin I made, I learnt a bit more on how to get around some of these sizing restrictions to condense the space down. So after a lot of coding I was able to construct a skin which significantly brings down the minimum window size you can have when using Messenger.


Fuse features a highly compressed chat window and contact list design. It took a lot of experimentation and a mixture of code from different skins to be able to come to the final product (kinda how it got it's name, it's a fusion of all the layout compression I have done.)


Fuse features the standard options you guys have been used to in my skins recently and also uses some of the extra registry entries you see in Phunk'n as a little bonus. But yeah I recommend people check out this skin because it really does grow on you (like how it colorizes and if you combine it with the right scene it looks really nice).



Fuse is a simple, chrome effect skin using lots of gradients rather than textures. The colour schemes complement each other well and on the whole is generally pleasant to use. There is nothing too extreme, the the clear spaces make the task of typing less distracting. Overall Fuse is a wonderfully designed project by Willz and like all his skins I would highly recommend using it.

Download Fuse from the Messenger Plus! skins database


Tags:   Skin  Willz  Fuse  Release    

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Comments:


Comment by Menthix
Posted on Fri 05 Jun 2009 (23:09 GMT)
fuse*

Great skin BTW, have it as default here.

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