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@Wilson.joe... Thanks for the welcome. I have actually been an avid user of XBMC for over 2 years. I just never really wanted to or had the time to get into its guts. Nowing seeing you and the rest of the gents on this thread get into it has motivated me to do a few things and help out. Thanks also for the link to Gray (previously Gothic). Unfortunately, it did not go together with the background that mrmills gave us the link for as much as I initially thought. However, the background works very well with the Woody theme. So kudos.

@Mrmills... Thanks for the link to the background. I really like the way it goes from light areas to dark areas toward the top of the pictures. It makes sense given the way this skin is laying out. See links to the screenshots to know what I mean.

The spin-off of my new view from ViewsVideoLibrary took me longer than expected. There is quite a few more links and definitions required when trying to integrate a new view than I initially saw. The newbie schooling continues for me :-). Anyway, the new view is called Media List 2012 (not very imaginative) and the heart of the code is in its own file called Viewtype_MediaList2012.xml. Again, the System Info and Library Stats Panel is done and integrated into IncludesHomeRecentlyAdded.xml. I am learning GitHub in all of this so look for all code to posted there shortly.

In the mean time, how about some screenshots? Previous version has been fully updated and now sport a widescreen view. Yea!

Media List 2012 in Movies...
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=15...p5_xs-DMr0

Media List 2012 in TV Shows...
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=15...TZeEF7FLtU

System Info and Library Stats Panel...
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=15...g2drWdpmsE

Skin trigger for new Panel...
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=15...6hjs5Lwnhg

Recent Movies Panel with new background and theme...
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=15...nGvDNvLxUg

Let me know what you folks think. Again, I will sort out my newness with GitHub and transfer the code shortly.

New business... A suggestion.
Playing around with all this left me with a nagging question. What could we potentially do with the Home Add-on Panel to make it really useful? Right now it feels like you have to make a choice between it and the other panels. So here is a suggestion. Maybe it makes sense to make it like a mini-launcher that is on the left-hand (or right-hand) side of the screen. Limit it to 3-4 add-ons but allow the user to define the add-ons by menu item highlighted. So it will show different add-ons if Music is highlighted versus Video versus Movies, etc. Again, just a thought.

..B..