The Library Pallet should be implemented as a simple cascading menu from the main menu bar. Items should be listed in plain text, and if the user hovers over a leaf item (a figure entry, a MAT pose, whatever) for a given period of time the icon (png/rsr whatever) should appear. The user should have the ability to select options in their user preferences setting 1)time of delay before showing the icon 2)never displaying the icon 3)always immediately showing the icon 4)changing the displayed size of the icons. More often than not I don't need to see the icon to know which thing it is I want to select. For those entries allowing for optional instantiation details (ex. create new figure or replace current figure), by default a pop up window with the option selection widgets should appear to instantiate the item. The user should also be able to configure a default instantiation setting for such things in their user preferences so that the default action is taken when normal ("left" clicking) on the item instead of showing the option selection dialog. The user should always be able to 1)immediately view the icon for the selection and 2)bring up any instantiation option setting dialog by doing an alternative ("right" click) on the menu item. 2) The user should be able to set default paths to resources in their user preferences. The application should use these to begin searches for different resources - ie. the user should be able to select different default starting locations for loading/saving pz files, saving rendered images, loading textures, etc. The user should also have an option to always start with these default paths or to use the last path specified for that particular resource type when dealing with the next action involving that resource type, saved in their user preferences. 3) Since you can only really work with one set of controls at a time, displaying all of them on the screen can be a waste of screen real estate. The default should follow the Photoshop paradigm of selecting a tool to work with and then providing the controls and settings for just that tool. The application should also provide the option to allow for multiple instances of this tool manipulation area, each area dealing with it's own tool instance in the event that users do want to have more than one tool functionality available on screen at a given time.Tool selection should be provided via an optional displayed universal tool pallet, a tool menu from the main menu, a tool menu from the "right" click menu and with keyboard shortcuts. 4)The user should be able to create custom keyboard shortcuts, with the option to make those shortcuts available universally across the application. For instance if you wanted to be able to set a keyframe regardless of what you were working with in the application, you should be able to make it so (for example) ctrl-k will always make a keyframe at the current point regardless of whether you are posing a figure, changing a camera setting or even working in the material room if you want. 5)Figure/prop body part selection should allow an option to be a cascading menu following the element hierarchy of the individual figure (similar to the hierarchy/parenting window in Poser 4). It's a pain to get to the left toe of a 3rd generation DAZ figure by having to scroll to the bottom of the body part list as it is now. In fact you could do away with the separate body part drop down all together and just replace it with a cascading menu off the figure selection in the figure list. Also there should be an optional simple wire frame 2-d mini view of the currently selected figure in the "zeroed" position (regardless of current pose) showing front, top, bottom, left, right, back views with the outline of the body parts of the selected figure allowing for body part selection - as an alternative to trying to grab the body part from the main preview window or using the body part drop down list. There's more I could add, but these are basic ones that should be implemented. Unzipped

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