Basic Panel further improvements

I've played around with the new Development Basic Panel. Not easy at the beginning but quite consistent. I like the way the histogram is divided in sections and that these sections are logically organised in tools. I wonder if it's possible to go one step further :
by having a TAT for these tools : we have it for the tone curve, why not for the Basic: for exposure, highlights, shadows, black and white? It could be time saving and maybe more intuitive to interact directly onto the picture;
by having a clipping overlay for all the sections, not only for the black and the white at the beginning and the end of the histogram; this way we could see wich part of the picture will be affected by each tool.
Sounds good (and possible) or what?

HEAD Productions wrote:
I don't care for them to be arranged in the "workflow order" as Victoria Bampton has suggested. Each photo requires a different approach and an order that relates to the histogram would be of more help.
Well, you may as well adapt and adopt the current order because, believe me, they won't be changed from the order they are in with the current beta. The reason the order is what it is is because the engineers wanted the order to indicate the suggested order in which the controls are designed to be used. Even in early testing, the testers tried to fight the current order up to the point where over time, it was obvious that the current order was optimal for most images in PV 2012.
What you really need to do is forget how you adjusted images in the previous process versions and adapt your edits to the new PV 2012. While some of the controls may share a slight similarity with the previous controls, they are different enough that trying to use old logic for the new controls will only frustrate you.
Think of them as Exposure and Contrast being the main tools, Highlights and Shadows as fine tuning the previous adjustments by recovering highlights and opening up shadows and Whites and Blacks as the final tune to adjust the end points, if needed (often they aren't).

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