Here's my opinion:
MORE OPTIONS!!MC has grown a LOT since v8 yet we still have more or less the same set of options that v8 had with a few exceptions.
I
know you guys didn't want to add more options but we've a LOT of discussions about if A should do/behave in this way or that way.
Take this as an example - should enter play them or do nothing, personally I'd like to be able to set the search to not execute till I hit enter as right now it's toooo jumpy and wierd typing in a search - it's trying to dynamically update the library as I'm typing which is resulting in me barely being able to type - there's a huge lagg.
We also had the BIG discussion about should selecting a node in the tree select none or all files.
These types of things are personal preferance and there are a lot more types of issues like this in v9 where the way MC acts is down to personal preferance a LOT.
I REALLY think it's time to just say 'ok, we have to do it' and just add a whole bunch more options to the options screen.
Right click menu - number of 'sticky' items in it - this needs to be taken out the registry and put into the options menu.
Which toolbar items have text - this needs to be taken out of the registry and put into options (well the reg hack itself isn't working right now either).
And several more things - there is no 'right' / 'wrong' answer - it's just about how people want MC to behave.
Give us one more screen in the options panel for: 'MC behavior' - and put this as the first item in it