Hi,
As of commit [65279ac4] (https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/6527a9ac4), the idle screen now supports showing the current recordings, next recordings and schedule conflicts (similar to mythwelcome).
Each of these is a buttonlist, called 'currentrecording', 'nextrecording' and 'conflicts' respectively. These widgets are optional so you are free to define them or not.
The available attributes in the buttonlist are the same as described here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Schedule-ui. ... st_windows
The idle screen is described by the window 'standbymode', usually defined in status-ui.xml.
I've updated the default and default-wide themes but you may wish to override the defaults in your own theme(s).
This change only applies to master.
Richard.