Darkside - Yahoo Messenger 9 skin

New Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta skin

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I guess there was needed such a skin. My opinion is that YM9's default skins look awful, or at least for my taste. This is the main reason for doing this skin. I hope you like it.

Notes:
- I couldn't change the color of the highlighted button text (the green text on the red button) because the option can't be found in any xml for that kind of button.
- I couldn't change the status background color although there's a .bmp file for that. Apparently, it doesn't work. It's better to leave it this way because otherwise you couldn't have read the status... the same thing happens with the text in preferences which has a similar background.
- The skin isn't larger than a normal YM9 skin and it doesn't use a lot of resources. Don't worry about this.
- This skin works only on the YM 9 Beta released BEFORE the 29 of May. I will make a new version that will work for the new YM 9 Beta. Stay tuned!

Instructions:

Extract the archive in C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\skins and then click on the marble on top of your messenger window and select Darkside.

The skin in the download link is not exactly the one in the screenshot, it has the red scroll and red active buttons a little bit redder. The pinky-red version can be found HERE