[ruuk]

Loving the new video skin but it takes some getting used to at first

Yeah, for me too

Some of the things I like are the way the images are presented to you at the bottom. I like the 3d green light. The video is nicely placed for each text box that appears. I would have liked a different background colour than black, maybe a sky blue, but I must say it does look sleek and improved on the light skin very modern looking. Please keep the light skin as I do still like it.

When you say you would have liked a different background color than black, do you mean the skin background (as in the color behind all the elements) or something else?
The idea with the dark theme is to distract less from the video playing. But there is no reason I couldn't make the colors customizable or something.
One thing I was working on today was making the forum colors (previously only behind the logo on this skin) more prominent. I think it's better now, but you can see on the next update.
I don't plan on getting rid of the other skins

When viewing pictures could we have maybe a white picture frame to make the pictures stand out against the black skin.

I assume you mean the image slide out on the message view. Yeah, I should add something.
BTW, the image viewer window is just copied and pasted from one of the other skins, so that is why none of the skin elements show, and all you see is the image. That will of course be changed.

When clicking the skip left button on the remote to restart an already playing video it does restart the video but it also takes you back a page on the open forum

Added to my todo list to see what I can do about that.

Just to be clear, when I said that I might become the new default skin, that is just a possibility and depends on how it works out

The main thing I have been working on so far is trying to figure out best how to wrap the interface around the video and also the transformation between video and non-video "mode".
Once I get all that working I will go back and tweak the appearance and refine the images and fix any usability issues.

I would also like to encourage you (or anyone else lurking out there) to let me know what you don't like about the skin. Nothing is set in stone at this point (except perhaps the fact that when video is playing the video is going to be on the upper right and everything else has to fit elsewhere)
I'm not assuming you'll end up wanting to use this skin, but I would like to know what changes would make you want to. Not because I want to make this John's perfect skin , but there's nobody else going to give me any input, and I like to get a point of view that's not only from my developer skewed brain.

BTW, I submitted 2.0.0 to the main repo today, so hopefully it will be up soon.