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Looks superb , am having bother trying to populate the dashboard . Using panel view , I left the default items in the dashboard panels, switched from screensaver to widget , but the dashboard panel on home page is still blank ,.

Hmm, dashboard is working fine here. Does it show the weather? Sometimes it takes a while to show up, especially when PKC is syncing your library. Does a restart help? If not, a screenshot might also help to identify the problem.
 

Have set up my library using PKC , but I see that doing this means you have more or less duplicate movie and tv show main menu items given that PKC populates the kodi library, am assuming the solution would be to disable kodi "movies and tv shows" from the main menu? given that I cant see how I would remove plex movies and shows ?

If you only have one TV/Movie PKC section you could turn off PKC support (Preferences --> General --> PlexKodiConnect --> OFF). This feature is mainly for people who have more PKC sections like TV/Movies/Kids/Animation and who want to have a home menu item and "in progress" / "recently added" widgets for each section.