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bes51659 
I will hopefully be able to use phone keypad and text entering methods, and/or voice control to enter text. But not solved yet. I thought it was, but then phoco was gone... A bit upsetting since I had a license...
I read your post at work and then at home and then thought about it in the tub, and now I've read it again. I'm not sure I understand :-)
Love the highlight/glowing thing. Very much like the banner I invisioned.
Is your idee that if you are watching TV, and "enters the room", the TV screen floats away like you've taken a step backwards. And then you can see the icons, and configure/change mode and what have you? That sounds very neat indead!
Pretty much what was I was thinking is I would like it so that when the skin first loads, it will show something similar to the screen shown above. After a few seconds of inactivity it will zoom into the floating screen and show the visualizer and album art,etc. If you press the mode key it will zoom out (like stepping away from the screen) and show the four menu options. Twist the knob and the menu items rotate to show more options. Click on one and the screen flickers and changes to the new screen, don't do anything for a few seconds and it zooms back into the screen you were just on.
For me and the touchscreen version, If I tap anywhere on the edge of the screen when it's zoomed in it will zoom out, and I can just tap the option I want or press the left or right walls to show more menu options.
I'm mostly going to use GPS and music, so I won't need to switch between the skins that much, and I can have GPS full screen since my Pioneer Deck will display track title and artist, etc.
This will require me to make some stuff in flash, and I have Flash CS3, but I'm going to look into Swish Max 2 tonight and download the trial version for that. I'm going to start by making the skin without flash, and then modifying it later.
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bes51659 Is the background a photo?
Yes, ever seen the PS3 commercials with the white room? this is a picture from those ads with the PS3 removed.
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bes51659 Are you using a touchscreen or some kind of joystick?
I have an 8" touch screen. (And a wireless mouse and keyboard for the passenger or when I'm stopped and need to type lengthy text.)
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bes51659 I am impressed anyway. I think there is to much "buttons" on all skins I've seen. Like a stereo from the 70's. Better to manuever in context sensitive menues.
I had a look at my FM screen. adn what I need there. I will edit this message as soon as my internet is on again (on 33k6 modem at the moment...)
For most people, they have the touchscreen and nothing else, so they have to have buttons for volume control, play, pause, etc. so it ends up getting cluttered. There are plenty of skins that manage the different functions well, but what we are trying to do is something totally different.