I don't think that I correctly understood your "Star Wars" themed post! :-) I've definitely been modifying skins to fit my needs. Minor changes, but sometimes little things make a big difference! :-)
For my uses, I never have liked the the Dimka-style skins. I like certain aspects of them, but they just try to do too much, in my opinion. I use iGo on an 800x480 device and I really dislike the overall look of the skin. Cluttered and messy come to mind - I just don't want/need all of that stuff in my cockpit screen. I realize that you can "hide" a lot of that stuff, but if you do that, then why use that particular skin to begin with? :-)
I find the overall look and design of the Kikker/Decent skins to fit my needs better. I've modified both of them to further fit my needs where needed/desired, but for the most part, they work really well as-is for my needs. Unfortunately, my WinCE 2DIN car head-unit (which is really the only device I use navigation on anymore) just doesn't support TMC of any kind (no TMC hardware support and no internet connectivity possible), so I have no use for TMC.
Like I said, to each their own - we all have different wants and needs - which is one of the reasons why the iGo family of navigation products is so great - people can customize the product to fit their needs - which is something that can't be said for other GPS packages out there - at least not on the same level.
I am still kind of interested to hear why some people like NextGen better (have not yet seen any responses from any of the folks that had previously said that they prefer it). Just kind of curious what they like better about it. Again, not trying to say that any product is better than any other - that is dependant on each persons needs - just looking for peoples opinions, that's all.
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