Skins do not have full features

[Bouncer]

I have downloaded the MediaPlayer skin, but sincerely I cannot find a way to use it with ease. The playlist at the right does not show any contextual menu when you do right or left click, you can barely change the skin and do few more things. Why the skins are so limited compared to the "default" skin?

[ipkiss]

What you call the "default skin" is not a skin, but a completely different interface (based on wxWidgets). So if it has a particular feature, skins may not have it, and vice versa (the slider of the wxWidgets interface cannot be moved to a precise location with a single click, for example).

If you are using the skins2 interface already (after switching from the wx one, or after setting it in the preferences, or after using the start menu shortcut, or...), changing the skin is simply a matter of typing Ctrl-S.

Now, you also have to keep in mind that the skins framework is improving regularly, so older skins may not have the recent features, because they simply didn't exist at that time.

As for the particular case of the playlist popup menu, you are right that there should be one. It will probably be done for VLC 0.8.6.

[Bouncer]

And shouldn´t be better use a single scheme for skins, either based on wxwidgets or based on skins2? I think having a graphic implementation in 2 different ways leads to confusion. What is the reason for doing that? Maybe the different operating systems interoperability?

[ipkiss]

Some people want a sobre, classical GUI --> wxWidgets
Some people prefer windows with custom colours, shape, special effects --> skins2

Also note that the dialog boxes in the skins2 interface are the ones of the wxWidgets interface, so the wxWidgets plugin is needed for the skins to work properly.