Just adding my weight to this one. Since the sticky stuff was introduced I've never been able to achieve a happy medium with it. Quite frankly, I don't like it. The theory is excellent, the practice sadly lacking.
This needs to go, either that, or (sorry matt) some user options introduced to help tame the beast that is sticky views.
IMO, it would be good to keep the sticky "which columns are visible where" bit, but that sort order stuff? Guys it just gives me a headache.
What about RemyJ's workaround? Editing a load of view schemes/smartlists could be a lot of work. How about if we had a dialogue, or a field in the "tree and view settings" area where we could choose a default, and have this applied automatically across the board, ML included. Maybe even one default each for audio, video and image databases?
One of the most annoying kick-backs from sticky views for me is that I can't always see the track# without scrolling right, and, as I expect my albums to be displayed in the correct track order, regardless of how many are in the list or where in the tree I am, I get caught out by it time and time again. If I then click a column header or 2 for whatever reason, I expect that next time I open that list, that albums will once again be sorted in the correct track order, and of course, they are not.
I've genuinely tried to get used to the sticky views since they were introduced, but am at the point now where I'm praying MC9 does not go "final" without some changes in this area.
btw,
Gkerber, you'll be back, I know you will, MC is like that, it kinda gets a grip of you