Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. For those that do not, programs can add the functionality, like WindowBlinds for Microsoft Windows and ShapeShifter for macOS. Some platforms support changing the standard interface, including most using the X Window System. The most popular skins are for instant messaging clients, media center, and media player software, such as Trillian and Winamp, due to the association with fun that such programs try to encourage.
Applying a skin changes a piece of software's look and feel-some skins merely make the program more aesthetically pleasing, but others can rearrange elements of the interface, potentially making the program easier to use. Software that is capable of having a skin applied is referred to as being skinnable, and the process of writing or applying such a skin is known as skinning. As such, a skin can completely change the look and feel and navigation interface of a piece of application software or operating system. In computing, a skin (also known as visual styles in Windows XP) is a custom graphical appearance preset package achieved by the use of a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be applied to specific computer software, operating system, and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users. Graphical control elements in Qt rendered according to three different skins: Plastik, Keramik, and Windows
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