Summary says it all really. The default RedHat skin erm, sucks. Can't you pick a prettier one? Given the important that the average user places on mp3's these days, fixing this would be a useful boost to the desktop.
It's the default one that ships with xmms. Us writing a new one would require people with artistic talent. :)
Artistic talent. Wot's that? 8-] You seem to ship a powertools package called "xmmsskin", or similar. It's packed with skins. Not to be rude, but I expect you would be hard pressed to pick a worse one :-)) Maybe a single decent skin could be moved to the main package (licence permitting). Good skins: "Ultrafina" "Ultrafina SE" "MinEgui", "BrushedMetal", amongst others.
We need a new Bugzilla checkbox: "beer", i.e. filer will buy beer if it gets fixed :-) The chaos-xmms skin in the xmms-skins package is another very good one.
Should be fixed in 1.2.7-10 or later, with the redhat-artwork package.