Hi Tony,
do you plan to make jqGrid themeroller compliant in some next future?
In the lacking of a true Jquery-UI grid component for a while (an year? two years?) this will help a lot to use your wonderful plugin in real word cases.
I know transforming jqGrid into a real JQuery-UI widget will take a lot of code reworking, but a simple sicking to the new UI CSS framework won't be too much complex, right? It's all about modifying some class names here and there.
What's your thinking?