[Nazgulled]

"This sucks because when we update XBMC, these changes will be overwritten"

Get used to it. This software is written for tons of people so every little tweak you want for yourself isnt going to happen for everyone. Just need to keep copies of the files you are changing and pop them in when you update. Also you dont have to update when you update XBMC. Only when you update your skin. These are skin files. And how often you do really update your skin? Just uncheck it when you install a prebuilt SVN version.

You are pretty new to the forums. Maybe a week or so? So really you shouldnt be complaining yet.

Excuse me? That's the most absurd thing I heard in a long time... Why can't I complain? It's not like I'm forcing anyone to make the changes I want... My "complaints", as you call them, are not complaints at all, I'm just making a point and perhaps, there's some implicit suggestions in there!?

If some important changes are done to the default skin, then, I want to have those changes and if I uncheck the skin then update, I won't have those important changes. What you are saying makes no sense... We are talking about the default skin, not some other skin that I update manually when I want.

But I'm going to lay it out for you just so you understand... Since this "weather backdrops based on weather conditions" is now a feature part of XBMC, why can't the default skin, better yet, why shouldn't the default skin support it natively? The proper and best configuration for this is to enable the custom backgrounds in the skin settings and set the respective folder for the weather backdrops.

Now, there's 2 solutions for this:
a) The skin try to detect automaticall if there are numbered folders (00, 01, etc...) in the weather backdrops folder and automatically appends the respective folder number ($INFO[Weather.FanartCode]) to the folder path.
b) A new option is added to the skin settings dialog where the user enables, or not, weather backdrops based on current weather conditions.

But this is not a complaint at all, it's only a suggestion... Someone, or the skin author, can implement it or not, it's their choice, I'm not forcing anyone to do anything.

You better start undestanding the difference between a real complaint and a suggestion, before starting to be rude in your posts.