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Actually, I think it's the opposite. In the traditional 2-list filemanager it's quite clear which lister is source and which destination (destination is always the one you're not working on currently). In DOpus5 it became a necessity to have user markable source and destination listers, because there can be more than two listers. Users can have, for example, ten listers open, and then mark which is the source and which are destination(s). You can even copy from one source to several destinations in one go by locking several destinations.

Ambient doesn't offer a way to copy files like DOpus (maybe it should?), but marking listers as source and destination could give some other possibilities. For example, in my Magellan2 configuration I have an action to compare source and destination lister contents recursively with MirrorCheck, but I can't configure Ambient like that... there's no way to get information which listers should be compared because users can't mark them in any way. I have many custom options in Magellan2 that take source and destination lister paths to process files with external shell commands. Makes it much easier than trying to remember and type everything manually in the Shell.


And to the original question, at least some Ambient 2.0 wishes:

1) A "Custom" button for the Ambient toolbar. You could edit its action just like you already can edit custom hotkeys and mimetypes. Freely selectable image file for it.

2) A "Sub Toolbar" button for the Ambient toolbar. Just like the "Sub Panel" button in the Panels already. You could dump some rarely used toolbar buttons there and avoid too wide Ambient windows.

3) Fix multiple actions support for custom hotkeys.

Hmm.. I had something else in my mind just a minute ago, but forgot it :)