[ronie]

1.1. Weather fanart packs. Either multi or single image packs. Skinner uses Weather.Fanart info label and XBMC handles the rest.

i'd very much like to see this one moved to section 2.
if a skin has support for weather fanart, why not install it by default?

weather fanart certainly adds to the xbmc wow factor and if we don't install by default,
95% of the users (the non-forum ones) would miss out of it as they won't even know of it's existence.

1.3. More specific background packs, such as Genre fanart. These would be set by XBMC during directory listing. Personally I'd be reluctant to include these, as they start cluttering the UI - we'd need a setting for them, and I'm not clear as to where this sort of thing makes sense.

same as above really, imo a skin should be installed with all bells and whistles, giving the user the most eye-candy experience possible.

in case a user has no interest in one of the additional artwork packs, we can always add a skin setting to disable certain background/icons.

After all, are folk going to want Director fanart? Year fanart? Where does it stop?

for paperstreet we're looking into actor fanart...
so yes, i guess the sky is the limit.