When is the three-column display from DM1 coming back to DM2?

Wil:

Thanks for answering my question. It may not have been the answer I was looking for, but I really appreciate hearing a direct response from you about it. And while I certainly hope that DL2 will restore the old three-column view someday, I'll be happy to continue using it as-is in the meantime. Thank you for making a great product.

There are a lot of people on the forums asking for this 'fix'. I have to say, I'm one of them - I'd love for the information to be easily readable on my macbook screen. Hopefully Wil's reply indicates they might be working on it.

Then again, I'm also one of the people that would love an iphone app to view my collection easily on the move, and for the program to actually work with my cuecat scanner (though I must admit I haven't tested 2.0.2 yet!)

No three-column display in DL2? You "can't promise if or when"?
I DONT BUY IT!!! NEVER WITH THIS NEW VIEW!!!

I vote that the "experiment" wasn't a success. I really don't like the info on the bottom. Long text running the width of a wide screen is hard to read. The suggestions section works though - they would probably work on the side as well.

I like the new layout (I don't know if is worth 20$ though) but one thing that annoys the hell out of me is that once that I have sized the bottom pane, I can press the spacebar and it remembers it, but not the next time I open the program!!!! By the way I dont like a right a "permanent" right pane. I like the fact that I can pop it up by pressing the spacebar, but please!!! let it remember my preferences otherwise is just a pain. I dont want to be rearranging my layout every time I open the program.

+1 for the 3 column layout. I tried the DL2 Beta and was put off by the description pane at the bottom. Otherwise a wonderful upgrade. Would also like more exporting options.

I'm not going to resort to all-caps, or invective, but I want to add my voice to the chorus. I tried version 2.0 for a couple days and ultimately, the new positioning of the details pane bugged me enough that I went back to version 1.6.6. 1.6.6 works well for me, so I'll stick with it indefinitely, unless or until the details pane gets moved back. But there are many great improvements in 2.0, so if this issue gets addressed, I'll send along my 20 bucks in a heartbeat.

just another vote for the old 3-vertical panel view (even iTunes has 3 vertical columns now for the Genus bar!). I'd also like to see some native Quick Look integration. Using Leopard now, when I click on an item and hit the spacebar, I expect a Quick Look HUD to appear! This wold eliminate the need to open the detail inspector nearly as often too — though I still think it should be on the right. ;-)

Quicklook HUD would be great as an interim solution for the 3 column view

Yes, a Quicklook feature inside DL2 would be nice !

I'm a big fan of Quicklook.

I agree. I also downloaded and tried DL2, but deleted it and went back to the version with the right-side info pane. I would love to update to DL2, but don't think I can until that is restored.

I am also a heavy user of DL1 who has not upgraded because of the 3 pane view.
I managed to have my library with me on the iphone by buying an other app that can sync text files, and even if not elegant, it is working

I should say also that i don't like much the fact that not all covers have the same size in DL2 . This makes it messy and spoils a little the pleasure of having a look at my collection. This however is no so important as a 3 colums fix

Well William Shipley, I have used DL1 ever since I switched to Mac's in February 2007. Love it, great little program. I just went out today and learned that version 2 is out there. Did not understand why DL1 did not auto tell me about the update, as I have that option checked. No problem though. Downloaded DL2 and installed. It imported all my DL1 library info. When launched, saw the details moved to the bottom. Looked and looked for a way to dock it to the right like in DL1. Not on option. DL2 was just as quickly UNINSTALLED. I cannot believe DL2 was released without an option of where to dock the detail screen. Come on! No upgrade for this user until this issue is made available for end user to decide. Sheez.
BTW, I don't need my iTunes library in my Delicious Library. iTunes keeps that just fine for me.

The programmers often say they want to concentrate on removing the bugs before adding new features. But this roadmap is flawed for 2 reasons: first, the info pane at the bottom IS the biggest bug of DL2. Second, this is not a new feature, it was present in DL1!!