10 Minor LR3 UI suggestions and some minor UI bugs

Minor UI Enhancements / Adjustments …
Yes I have bigger issues than these but there is enough being said about those already, however I thought it may help to provide feedback on a bunch of more minor things…
1.       Bug?  - A weird one here…
The Thumbnail select behaviour is different in folders v’s Smart collections in publish.
In the smart collection – Click a thumb to select it and then shift click another thumb as if to select a range of thumbs… this does not select a range but simply selects the new thumb.   Bizarrely repeat this again and it behaves as expected and repeat again and it behaves badly.   This behaviour alternates between working correctly and incorrectly each time tried.   This strangeness does not occur in a folder.
2.       Enhancement Suggestion - In dimmed develop mode if the cursor is placed just below the histogram then light up the shooting info so can more easily be read OR when dimmed or lights out suggest the “I” key not only toggles the info display but also lights it up whilst the key is still pressed. 
3.       Enhancement Suggestion - In “Edit Smart Photo Set” I should not need to press Alt to get the option to have the “hidden” advanced nested selection logic made available.   This is far too powerful a feature to simply hide in this way when “real estate” for another button is not really a problem.   RTFM aside … Why make a secret of such power especially from new users?
4.       Bug?  - When editing a text field (In Windows, I don’t know about Mac) in the meta data such as title, key combinations such as Ctrl Shift Left are correctly interpreted as select word left, but Ctrl Left should simply be interpreted as move cursor left within the edit field by a word… not change selected image which is quite irritating.   I.e. when editing a text field all the common edit key combinations should be correctly interpreted and implemented within the field edit, I do not expect any key combination to move thumb selection.
5.       Enhancement Suggestion - Meta data filtering … please make all possible fields available.
6.       Enhancement Suggestion - The “settings” sub-menu on right clicking a photo in develop mode is getting out of hand!   I love the variety and scope of the pre-sets, but surely make it hierarchical to a degree.  At least make B&W and Colour pre-sets further submenus.   It is not cool to have a menu which needs to be scrolled because it is actually larger height wise than my large HD screen!
7.       Enhancement Suggestion – The develop controls “light up” as you put the cursor over them, I appreciate dimmed and lights out mode are globally dimming the entire set of panels including the controls… but it would be a nice touch to fully “light up” the controls on cursor over them even when dimmed or lights out.   This would allow easier adjustment with the mouse even in lights out mode.   Again, I appreciate that coding this is more than a simple global dim applied to all the panels.
8.       Bug?  - In a Flickr published smart set which has all been published, if I edit the title field of a selected image and enter, the picture thumb is moved to “Modified Photo’s to republish” and is de-selected.   The next thumb is shown as selected, however despite this, the Loupe view and the Meta data panel still show the previous edited image which is no longer selected.   This surely is wrong?
9.       Suggestion .. Remove the serial number displayed in the system info box and put it in a separate box which is not copied when the copy button is pressed.
10.   Suggestion .. It should be possible to copy Smart Collection settings to create a new one from it.   Having to export the definition to an external file and re-import it is tedious especially when you use identical smart collections to publish to different destinations.    Even better would be to allow smart collections to inherit their settings from a master smart collection - this would add great power to this facility.
Alan
PS - Windows 7 64bit, Core i7, 8GB

Another minor UI suggestion:
During an adjustment of a B&W mix, let the "Alt" key temporarily display the image in colour again, so that one knows which colours to adjust for certain areas. It would also make it easier to use the TAT, i.e., have a way of knowing where to place it in area of similar B&W shades but different underlying colours,

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