I feel strongly about both:
Mini Skins are a MUST for unobtrusive music listening while doing ohter work on the PC.- As much as I appreciate some beautifull mega skins, when I am working I want an ELEGANT, fast, practical SMALL bar on the top of one of my screens. In straight english: I want a MINI SKIN. Just a bar with play controls, the same size as the windows border, with a autohide playlist and a semi transparent mode.
A Menu is NOT the same as a Skin MANAGER where you can PREVIEW your skins, it is a BASIC NEED for those of us customers which have a LOT of skins.
I would forgo both items for a LINUX MediaCenter. an i486 and an amd64 deb for debian and ubuntu. But I don´t see that miracle happening anytime soon.
So... back to principles: I bought Windows MC With mini skins AND skin manager. I gently request: ¿bring them back please some time?, I would be happy just with an ETA for both....