Skins for Arduino? Why not?

Pracas, maybe something like this would suit you?

Woooo! I got the image tags to work!

(that sketch is for displaying an animated smiley on an led matrix by the way)

But seriously, if you look under (on a mac) Arduino/contents/resources/Java/lib/theme you can find gifs for parts of the window, along with a text file for colors and things!