Quote - I'm with you on the skinny handles.

Me too; But what annoys me is that I always have to resize the library to get to the scrollbar: If you hide the library and make it visible again (Ctrl-Shift-B), it appears at a default width which hides half of the "category" buttons and the scrollbar... That's a bug which should had been fixed in SR1...

My own pet peeves about the library:

• Too much to see (subjective, see below)
• Too large (takes twice the space the old one needed)
• Does always appear at a unusable default width (as I just explained - Bug)
• Doesn't switch to Materials when in the Material Room anymore. (Bug)
• Making it larger reduces all the other windows. I'd prefer if it only resized the nearest one. (Funny enough, I 'd rather maintain my preview aspect ratio, no matter what)

But I consider the new library to be a WIP, I only hope SM will fix all those little problems soon.

Quote - As far as folders go, it's precisely because the inner folders show that the new library is less steps to navigate than the old one.

Yes, but if you have 80 GB of runtime constantly displayed in it's totality, it can't but be tedious. Not that the old system was better, in P6/7 I use exclusively the folder navigation (little arrow) to jump directly from folder to folder: Else, going from the 4th subfolder of Figures to the 6th subfolder of Poses and back again becomes a tedious clickfest, and in the new library it's a tedious click- and scrollfest...

But as I said, I hope they'll eventually finish it once they've secured their 2009 bottom line.