I have been doing some work putting together a new GUI (re-skinning, not changing functions).  At first I thought this would be easy, but it's been harder then I thought.  Piecing together several PNGs in layers to make things appear as one piece is required for all areas of the interface, it was a pain.  I am not finished refining anything yet, but I do have a preliminary example of how it can look.  Now that I have all of the pieces needed found and organized (out of ~2500 files) it will be much easier for me to go back and overhaul the visuals as much as I want.    I plan to eventually make some GUI uploads to the STEX of various themes/colors.  I'll share what I currently have with you to see what you guys think about the idea of changing the GUI, but keep in mind this is a sample.  I have to refine the whole design yet;  adjust text colors,  feather edges, antialias, add borders, adjust fades, etc, etc, before I would call this ready for primetime.  The theme of my first new GUI will be greyscale.  Note:  this is an in-game screenshot; not a photo-shopped screenshot.  This GUI will be ready for download in a few more days!  I include the 'before' and 'after' pictures for side-by-side.       What do you think?  Does the old blue UI need an overhaul?   -Docj