For me, neither the old and the (new) Noire skin is the same ugly that it was from the beginning, so that why i started to learn and create skins. Sometimes i done something good and some bad, but i did like what come after. The problem of skins in the old way was as far as you want to create something good, in the end it was a limit of software that scrap your work because when you work with specific size and being so small you can't give some personality so you think if i do this, and you implement in the skin was so small that was so hard to see the difference.
So now with new retina thing and bigger seize the noire skin still suffer from the same problem, poor design, yeah maybe it has some new thing implemented that other skins don't have because, the support offer is so limited.
When i speak about creating stuff, a skinner work on 3 things; the skin itself, the code to be fit the skin and the limit that the program offer. Bring this 3 things in mind you need a solution to what you creation fit.
To be honest i didn't batter to see what's new on this noire skin because like i say, don't like, but from what i saw not much are change, maybe i'm wrong who knows (too little information now), so my own issues with the interface of the program remains, the theater view and the main skin, don't even speak the small version, i didn't even touch that, so the main skin somehow i find a way to be Ok, but for theater view, man, that part is so odd, because has more limited things than the main view.
So, what i expect to, maybe a new motivation to get back to drawn skins and put them to share, some new elements that we can play in that way to be a good part in the skin.
As for main view, is a bit outdated in therm of what should give us an information, i know, we are in 2014 and things change like a blink of an eye, and the support of on skins become less and less with every year and nothing change, i saw this for some times. Maybe this things make a person to get back when draw skins, because a few years ago, when i was active aswell people create something interesting, and now is equal to zero.