That is what I feared. I really like the idea of a 'shim', and I would gladly beta-test it, but, as I mainly just want video to launch from mplayer, I should just pester Serge to get his maemo front end to accept dbus parameters and pass them on to mplayer.

I've installed emelfm2, but it is really crowded and non-intuitive to work with. I would like something better than the default file manager, but still with a sparse, uncluttered interface and very few fancy features.