Er, we're on the topic of changing how MC looks? That's what I get for not paying attention. Really, you can't blame me, though--Otto's been in the kitchen banging his pots and pans, going on about how I never listen anymore. . .
Here's something I'd like to see:
The MC pane system is great, absolutely the best way to filter data, apart from manually selecting tracks. However, say you have manually selected tracks (maybe you've also filtered using panes also, to get to that point).
Well, pane filtering reduces the number of visible files in the view, but selecting doesn't. If you want to change the order or whatever, you have to add the files to playing now as a split view, in order to manipulate them with full panes/fields, which is clummsy/time consuming and not politically correct if we're trying to encourage AW PN, Matt.
So here's my suggestion:
Introduce a right-click menu option, "filter", which would act exactly like the last, or right-most pane. Anything coming from the panes would be filtered according to what was selected, and the remaing files would be the sole occupants of the view, just as if you had made a playlist out of them. Only this is quicker, easier and TEMPORARY, the last stage of filtering data.