Also, we're happy to field ideas on what that bar above the lists should look like or if it should be there at all.
I personally think the toolbar should be beneath the panes - above the files and that it should be 'per view scheme' with it's customisation so we can put tools relivant to that view in there.
I'd also like to see the right click tools added to the toolbar so we could use buttons instead of right clicks to perform operations.
I'd LOVE to have buttons in my audio view scheme that I use for sorting out my files for: Fill properties from filename, Rename file from properties, etc. I MUCH prefer buttons to right clicks.
For images we also already have: Rotate, Resize, E-mail etc.
I'd always thought of this bar as a toolbar but have never been able to take advantage of it due to the limited number of 'tools' I can put on it and the fact it's the same thru all the view schemes.
I think small icons without labels aren't helpful. I stare at Visual Studio all day with its oodles of small icons. If you quizzed me, I'd only know what a handful of them do.
I fully agree - some items DEFINITELY need text, a few though like 'Rotate' etc dont and it'd be great if we could chose for each one whether it had text or not.
Even there I'd rather have a combined browse + tagging mode so you didn't need to toggle anything.
This was a GREAT feature but just confusing and had a LOT of potential for trouble. When I'm using MC for myself I didn't mind it - it worked GREAT - when my friends were using MC half the time u'd be worried that they were going to mess up years of tagging work.
I still REALLY think that when tagging mode is turned on it should go back to this mode not to the current mode.
Combine this with NO tag updates happening until tagging mode is turned off again (with background saves happening say every 10/15 minutes or so (user configurable like MS Word) and MC would become 100 times faster and more powerful for tagging ALOT of files.
Right now the toggling of Tagging mode on and off along with the tags all being written each time we move to a new field both combine to slow this process down a lot.
Anyway, our plates are pretty full (Thanksgiving and all) so I'm not sure if anything too ambitious will happen for a bit. Still, ideas are very welcome.
Not sure when thanksgiving is being English and that being an american holliday but have fun with it whenever it is.
Hope u get ur way and we get back combined tagging and browsing - U have my vote for it (as the replacement to tagging mode - not as standard)