Your choice - vertical or horizontal.

Actually, I was thinking this too, in a more general sense. Hugo &c, how 'abstractable' is the display interface? Would it be possible to (eventually) set this up so that the end user can choose between a number of predefined (and possibly customisable) layout/interfaces? In the far future, people could customize these things from Emplode and have a 'skins' bazaar where people can submit their own customised looks? This is not something for now, but something for the future when the Mark II is out and the software is above v1.0.

Always consider extensibility when designing protocols and APIs.

Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.