[alcoheca]

To be honest, I'd tend to be a little hesitant to allow users to change the layout too much. The skinners know what they're doing and what looks good within their skin and works well from a usability point of view (for the most part). This is what they do "for a living" after all.

I guess it depends on the resolution to some extent though. Larger numbers of pixels to play with allows more options in some respects.

I suppose we could wait and see if there's an outcry for it, I don't mind retro-fitting it if the need exists.

Navigation-wise, I'm thinking we can show 24 hours at a time (i.e. from the start of the current timeblock), with free scrolling horizontally within the 24 hours and then a jump to the next block, or, if we can get away with it memory + loading-wise free scrolling right up to the end of the EPG information.

Vertical scrolling would be like the normal list controls today.

Sounds like good values to start with.

Whether or not we need to be able to navigate away from the grid (i.e. we'd currently be trapped if we use the dpad to navigate) needs to be considered as well.

I guess this depends on where we want to have the "extra" info and controls that we will need for the day to day runnings of a backend. If there was a status bar beneath Jezz_X's grid then that could show contextual information. For example - you hit record on a grid item and the subsequent available recording space is printed to the status bar.

If we go for tight integration with current XBMC way, then options to force an EPG update/reboot the machine/reload drivers could be placed in TV Settings page. The tuner strength, general server status would be found in the system information window.

Alerts could be used to warn the user of problems.