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Great work! Thank you very much!

@otto42:
Are you sure, that your listing with fixes is complete?
I had a problem with my WP2.5.1 multimedia-uploader when I used it at work. At home everything everything was fine. The problem on some computer-systems was: after WP crunched all the uploads and I clicked on “Insert image” or “Insert gallery” there was only a white box.
I found a fix for that problem in a german forum. It’s a change in the file /wp-admin/js/media-upload.js . Here is the code (the old values are commented out):

/*
	var win = window.opener ? window.opener : window.dialogArguments;
	if ( !win )
		win = top;
*/
	var win = parent;

Perhaps it’s a dirty trick, but for me it worked!

And if you can’t wait for the next generations of WP, you can use a plugin.
I used a plugin (adminimize) of F. Bueltge to costumize the edit-panel and I’m really happy with it now! The plugin is a synthesis of several ideas of different developers with some adjustments and extension of Frank. Screenshot-Example.

Thank you for the quick answer! I removed all files of the /wp-content/uploads/js_cache directory. Now I am eager to find out what awaits me next week at work!

Let me try to describe my problem with ‘add media’ (my English is very poor, sorry!) at work.
The problem isn’t the upload of a single image. This works. But if you try to insert the image, there is only a white box and nothing happens.
I also noticed today, that the browser (FF2.x and IE7) are all the time busy with loading the write-panel-page.
At home, I have no problems. Why I mention KISS? Because for me it isn’t the question how pretty the insert-image-procedure is, I have to teach my colleagues how to insert images into their articles. And I have to do this on the damned network where I work. With WP older than 2.5 I had no problems with that. I admit, the new procedure is prettier, but the old one worked, even with our strange network. So I would like to have a bullet-proof add-media-feature, working without Java-Script, AJAX, … .
To make the thing more pretty, you can extend it with plugins!

I found a really nice plugin (Adminimize) to customize the write panel. It is written by Eric Meyer and extended by Frank Bueltge.
Look at
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/05/27/wordpress-adminimize-and-latest-tweet-plugins/#comments

(His English is not much better than mine ?? but the plugin is nearly what I want.) Probably it will be extended with WP 2.6, read (in German):
https://bueltge.de/wordpress-admin-theme-adminimize/674/#more-674

You can test it without any risks. Simply remove the thing from the plugin-directory if you don’t like it.

I want to bring back the write panel usablity-topic back to the top.
Since I changed to WP 2.5.x I noticed, that some people who used the blog a lot, stopped writing. I asked one of them for the reason and got the answer, that he was confused by the new write panel.
Dear wp-developers, please make it possible to configure the write panel. To dream a little: it would be great having a write panel with movable modules. Perhaps you know Moodle, something like that.
I don’t want to loose any of my blog-authors, even if they are “computer-handicapped”.

With some changes – the movement of the category-field for example – I’m not very happy too. But I must express my admiration, that this great software is for free and the tempo of developpment is really amazing!
I’m delighted of the new gallery-feature combined with the Cleaner Gallery-Plugin and the thickbox-support. I love it!

@gambit37:
thanks a lot! I will try it as soon I find some time!

Hi jabecker,
your ideas to improve the wp2.5.1 write-panel are great, so I tried to implement your modified files. Unfortunately the result was not so nice. Perhaps the reason is the german language-version of WP2.5.1 I use.
Screenshot
Browser was Firefox 2.0.0.14, screen resolution is 1280×1024.