I'm somewhere in the middle... I would really like to see skinning become more common/popular... I was a pretty big fan of lightstep on Win2k (not ME), as it allowed me to run the UI/UX that I wanted... It was not as easy or seamless as it could have been but was very cool.
I can't help but feel that most of the differences between say Unity and Gnome3 should have been a matter of skinning instead of more ingrained as they are... That should include certain filters against notification tools/icons and the dock/taskbar in order to get app icons to appear more inline with the skin/feel.
I know we moved away from the likes of litestep and winamp skinning, art and distro groups, but it would be nice to see some of that return.
I can't help but feel that most of the differences between say Unity and Gnome3 should have been a matter of skinning instead of more ingrained as they are... That should include certain filters against notification tools/icons and the dock/taskbar in order to get app icons to appear more inline with the skin/feel.
I know we moved away from the likes of litestep and winamp skinning, art and distro groups, but it would be nice to see some of that return.