[Hitcher]

Or they either can't be bothered coding something they'll never use themselves - after the nightmare of doing it myself for XeeBo I personally don't fancy the prospect ever again.

Indeed Skinning XBMC is a huge job these days and paying attention to the bits you don't use is often a chore.

I had an idea while back between eden and dharma that would cut out the need to skin 90% of all the dialogs (and therefore 60% of the work with it) but never went anywhere because it needed changes to the c++ side and people had other "features" and "fixes" they would rather add

I remember discussing something similar years ago where all the skinner would have to do is define a bunch of defaults for dialogs and XBMC did the rest.

Any chance your idea could be resurrected because taking the chore out of skinning would help get more in the repo?