You are right that the mini-me skins do kind of suck. The basic features are hidden in icons too small to distinguish or arent even on the interface. it's hard to get back to mega-me. You cant see the playing now screen without opeing those "wings". you cant see the columns or rate your songs.
My request is simply that there be a skin which shows essentially what we see in "playing now" at the moment, with all of its functionality, but is just smaller. It seems like there is no need for the program to take up my whole screen when just playing a song.
We can already set the program up to start in "playing now", for when we double click on files outside of MC, so that's half the job done. The other half of my request is to automatically jump to the new useful mini-me whenever we press the "Playing now" button.
Essentially, I'm saying, get rid of the "Mini-me/mega-me" termanology and make a really intuitive "playing now" and "library" interface.