[PantsOnFire]

I've had a bit of a play with things.

Gilsil, I couldn't replicate the problem you were having with submenus/context menus.

A thing or two I noticed along the way:

* Script background image and stop/pause etc. icons appear stretched on my 16x9 screen. (script is loading 4x3 background by default?)

* Tab order: If you are moving up one by one from the bottom (in the area where the play buttons are), the tab order skips past 'Settings' (goes straight from STOP/PAUSE icon to 'Popular'.

* As it stands, the SKIP,STOP,PAUSE functions only work for songs currently in the playlist. It might be nice if you can: Search, the results appear. Play a track, then FWD/BK skip changes to the next/prev track in the search result pane. Maybe I could have explained that better?! - what I mean is, if you wanted to listen to Muse tracks only for example, it would be nice and easy to use, to just search Muse, click song results, click play and then use FWD/BK skip buttons to get to the next muse track from the search results.

* The highlighted/focused song in the playlist.. could the focus be shifted to highlight the song currently playing? (we can see which song is currently playing by the ticker, but I think it would be friendly for the focus bar to also move to reflect that).

- I say that because there's no current artwork being displayed for music playing (usually an obvious indicator of what's playing).

Changes I made:
* Changed background image (and logo area)
(I'm a little dissapointed by the aliasing around the Grooveshark logo), I was using Pixlr (an online image editor) as I can't get on with Gimp and I don't have Photoshop on my laptop. - Pixlr dosen't seem to scale the images very well.
* Changed the focus/highlight colour in the songlist area.
- I've left room under the Grooveshark icon for a potential future album artwork image?

I haven't had an idea for how to improve the media playback buttons. I think the ones at the moment are fine? (they just look a bit stretched on my tv) -re: that stretching issue I mentioned.

Some general things I think would improve the look of it:
The font is fine enough, but maybe it could be larger? (current search results show 20 items on screen in the list). If you are considering adding the album art images to the left of the results (like in Moovida) you'd probably fit maybe 10 results on the screen as a result. I think the font in the lost needs to be bigger even if art was added to the left. -would be a bit easier to read from far back.

The results pane on the left almost fills the screen entirely top to bottom. If if was to be a bit shorter (take 1/8th of the top and bottom), I think it would look neater. Perhaps the design idea was to make as much use of screenspace as possible? I can understand that.

General fontsize increase really, on the results pane, and also the options menu on the right.

I've included a screenshot so you can see what I've done.



ps- what's needed to turn this from a script into a plugin?
I added the script to my favourites list, however running it from the favs list makes my xbmc hang. (common with scripts? or is my build a bit cack?)