See how baseskin.xml works today, with an eye on the future.

[Fatman_do]

Its possible that those that view this child board have seen this. You may have read recents posts similar to this elsewhere.

If not, this is a fully functional GB-PVR skin that sub posted if anyone missed it.

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Notice how little there is in there.
Does your plugin, or your favorite plugins work with it?

With upcoming changes in the baseskin.xml file, it would be possible to have a skin this "small" and work with many more plugins and have the same look.


This is another example, basically the same thing, but uses images for buttons.
(I added AM support in there so you could play with changing backgrounds and buttons, only two button styles provided.)

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These are examples of how "simple" new, "complete" skins in the future could be. Custom "complex" skins, will still be around and work, but part of that complexity will be simplified for the skinner. Those changes would mean only one skin.xml file by a plugin developer would work with either of those skins (edit:word was plugins), along with 'Blue'.