Well JimH,
not only for novice users
One of the absolute highlights of MJ8/MC9.0 was definitely the ease of use for tagging with the properties pane on the right side. It was easy and almost flawless!
I did some massive tagging this rainy weekend and I must say that Doof hit the point: Quick tagging is not quicker than tagging with the properties window - except that the properties window is smaller and unfavourably positioned on the lower left corner!
Although I like the panes for selecting tracks/images a lot, I feel that using the quick tag system is more of a distraction than a real gain over the old system.
I don't have any clear idea on how to improve it except the one thing I wish to have - and this has been asked a few times - to have all the tag values at your disposition, especially for people/places/events and user defined fields.
Maybe a solution would be a two-colour system: green for the tag values belonging to the selection and red for all other values belonging to that tag. Also the auto-complete feature suggested by Matt would come in handy.
Well, you do not like to hear it, but I am disappointed that the properties window has not been reworked in this release although asked by many here on Interact. It looks like an unfinished piece of work forgotten in the lower left corner of MC9.
And another thing about negative feelings, criticizing, being grumpy. One feels like that because one likes a product, a person, an object. If we do not care for something or somebody, we simply do not waste all that time on this forum unless one is paranoid. And I do not have the impression that anybody here qualifies for that title.
So, if from time to time there is some heavy criticizing (it rarely happens here) take it as severe hint from the community that there is some dissatisfaction looming around.