The idea is to have a Gentoo based media centre, I have had a look at a
mates where he has a Gentoo Distro that has turned his XBox into a media
centre and it looks and works great.

Im looking at stuffing Gentoo into a shuttle and using that instead and
that will make things easier.

The plan would be to install a commandline version of all the programs
needed and just add a "front end" that send the commands to the CL
programs and so not waste space with the GUI?

Can anyone recommend a good "front end" - especially if it was an XHTML
based with CSS styles (to allow the easy use of themes please?)?

Anyone recomendations would be great.

PS - my level at the moment is Im a web programmer (XHTML, CSS2, Flash)
and I have a dual boot XP and Linux on an AMD... ...but I learn
quickly?! ;-)

Cheers, Richard