[Jayz2K]

for that half screen look, you might wanna look at Eminence... kinda similar.
seems pretty straight forward working with the alpha channels; i.e. #ff000000

Yes, that's what I planned to do. I'm using this one for daily use and wanted to take a look at the code.

I suggest you have a look at Conq as that's what I'm using as my base for fTV simply because I made to be as easy to understand as possible.

Thanks hitcher. The vertical menu seems to be a good base for start. However I asked myself if home always require a widget to display covers. Conq seems to be limited to "recent, random" since ftv shows groups by "artists, genders". Is the widget customizable to show straight an alphabetical order of items ?