This definately requires a bit more attention, I think...
Dark skins are, generally, OK-ish.
Try a light skin, defaults are always a good starting point. "Green Eyes" or "Z" for example, look odd to me. A bit like its been stuck on with velcro and could fall off at any time. This is most likely caused by the thumbnail drop shadow effects.
My Knit-Knots skin looks ridiculous. Lovely big cover art image, but sadly, looks ridiculous. I've tried to fix that but having no success. I will need to spend a bit more time thinking about this one.
Now, even worse, IMVHO, is, try turning the thumbnail off... Looks really really bad now...
Skins such as the Modern Cards variants (and Knit-Knots) are OK as they don't have a defined Playerbar Display area, but skins like Green Eyes, Z, and the popular Black & Blue Too skin simply don't look right with their well defined Playerbar Displays butted right up against the left edge of the search field.
Thoughts?
Let me know if you want screen shots.
I don't want to start editing skins untill things have settled down inside of MC.
-marko.