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Sab should have the possibility of loading custom themes from user locations as in something like:

Mac OSX: ~/Library/Application Support/Sabnzbd/Interfaces
Windows Vista or 7: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\Interfaces
Windows XP/2003: %userprofile%\local settings\application data\sabnzbd\Interfaces
Unix: ~/.sabnzbd/Interfaces

That way when deleting/uninstalling/re-installing sab, custom interfaces wouldn't be affected.
They would simply become extra program data like ini, logs, queue, rss etc.

A nice side effect of this enhancement specifically on recent versions of OSX, is that it will keep the bundle seal/signature intact.
Tested this using codesign -v /Applications/SABnzbd.app

Currently if one decides to put a custom theme in SABnzbd.app/Contents/Resources/interfaces/, OSX will consider the seal broken and for example will ask the user to allow sab through the firewall every single time it is launched.

We're actually not encouraging new skins, because it's a hell of job to make one.
And worse to maintain it.
One problem is that what we current call a skin isn't really a skin but a full-blown UI.
When (if ever) we support true skinning (stylesheets and icons only),
it would be a good idea to use your suggestions.

The commandline -t option used to support a full path, but that got dropped somehow.