I wonder what users think about having multiple Menus on multiple
notebooks?
What I really like about the new-in-v.10 multiple windows interface is that it provides a workaround for the long-standing bug of empty list of opened Notebooks in the "Window" FrontEnd menu: now the individual Notebooks are also available from the Taskbar and I no longer have to rely on the FrontEnd menu.
Just presenting a "palette" of choices (such as PlotThemes) to users
is not sufficient. It vastly underestimates the true power of
Mathematica with its active calculation and dynamic controls.
I agree absolutely. The PlotThemes-style of development feels like step backward in the design of the system: it does not expand the possibilities but provides a limited number of hard-coded choices which are already simply outdated in their design (and always will for the obvious reasons!). It is not an expedient direction of development. What I expect in the future versions are new ways to construct graphics from other graphics. In particular I lack vector CropByMask command which would allow to crop a vector object by some vector mask defined, for example, as a Polygone (keeping everything in vectors of course!). I also lack the working FullGraphics function (which starting from version 6 simply does not work in the most of cases). I also feel that the Ticks functionality should be completely redesigned to allow much more flexibility: easy control on the distance from tick marks and the axes/frame, built-in functions for generating Ticks specification with at least that functionality which currently provides the CustomTicks` third-party package (what a shame that for such a basic task we still have to install third-party packages!).
