A few simple things come to mind...

1) Allow me to re-order the buttons on the tool bar, not just show or not show.
2) Redo the pickers, especially style-picker. It is kludgy at best. Make all the pickers such that as soon as I start typing something to filter it, it re-displays based on what I'm typing. So, if I'm looking for a style that starts with "S", then as soon as I start typing "S", it only displays the s's. "ST" shows the style that start with "ST". Filtering is obviously more complex than that, but you get the idea.
3) As in an Excel spreadsheet, show what I'm typing in the actual cell, not just the little box at the top left.
4) BIAB actually has different color schemes (since that was mentioned above). If you go to "Opt, Prefs" and select the color button, you can define your own colors. However, the help system doesn't explain what each element represents, so it's kind of hit or miss. This was added a bunch of versions back, and you will see some of the pre-defined schemes there that beta testers came up with.
5) More than 255 bars - this has been discussed ad-infinitum.
6) More than 8-character style file names that can go into folders of your choice (it's okay to have them all in a "styles" folder, but you should be able to create additional style folders. Long file names in Windows have been the vogue for over a decade now, so it's time to embrace it.
7) The menu system needs to be revamped. I think a menu that covers the screen top to bottom is just too long. Make use of sub-menus for items that fit into one category. There doesn't need to be three different save commands on the main File menu. Create a Save grouping and put the other options in a sub-menu. Or, just have Save and Save As - when you choose Save As, you can choose any other options you want, to include the options found in Save with Patches.
7) There's more, but I have to go to work now.

Those are some things that I would think should be simple to implement and will give the UI a start on a new fresh look.

John

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