Generally speaking and as you probably guessed already, most if not all skins come with their own "visual style", e.g. bars, gauges, lines, histograms, etc. Me, I never saw (yet) skins being able to "switch" to a different "visual style" and in the same skin, though it's definitely possible via hiding the "old style" meter(s) and showing the "new style" ones (since the Meter type option is not dynamic in nature, to allow it to be changed during the time a skin is loaded).I know that the main purpose is the gauges, but maybe bars would also be possible and not too different in coding (just a guess)?
That being said, the issue in such a case would be that all these different types of meters presumably showing the same data would need their positions and dimensions being designed in such a way that they "match" and are consistent from a visual perspective (e.g. in the case you mentioned, the bars being centered at the same position as the gauges would, and largely have the same length as the gauge's diameter, so that they seamlessly appear in the same place and with more or less the same size). In other words, skins tyring to do this would most likely have to be designed from the start with that "switching meter" features in mind. I don't know about Ricardo, but I did think of such an "universal" type of skin once or twice, but yeah, the implementation would have to take those visual consistency things into account. Either that, or creating new skins with that different aspect, which would need about the same amount of work.
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