[GeoffR]

Here is something interesting I just discovered on my Glo with firmware 3.2.0: Add the line KrakenIsPhoenix=false to the [ApplicationPreferences] section of the Glo's configuration file and you get the old stye homescreen and other UI features such as a slider to navigate the library. You also get the happy Kobo guy on the sleep screen if you don't have it set to show the book cover.

Here are a couple of screen shots from my Glo. It is not quite the same as the old homescreen I remember from before 2.6.1, but I like it an awful lot better than the new tiled homescreen. (I can't show the sleep screen because the sleep switch is used to take the screenshot).

Edit: Unfortunately with this setting you also lose some of the features that were added in recent firmware, such as the back button inside the book, so it looks like I will have to put up with the tiled homescreen for a while longer.