In the windows XP start menu, the right side has icons, but they are medium sized. This makes it so that they have icons, yet they still don't look...clunky. This is a feature request asking you to add the ability in classic start to make the right side have medium-sized. This would not affect the skins in any way, as this mode would make them be the same size as on 'no icons', and could therefore use the same hover images from the skin, and would require no foreseeable changes to the skinning system. So, could you add this ability?
http://i.imgur.com/NzJTxf5.jpgAn example of the windows XP start menu... As you can see, the medium icons on the right-side make it look prettier.