Dear Otto42, janeforshort, & HandySolo:
First, thank you for providing WordPress.
With version 2.7 you are moving in the wrong direction I think. The purpose of WordPress is to write words. The interface should excel at this. Using icons on the left side helps return screen real estate to the purpose of creating posts, but keeping “Publish”, “Tags”, and “Categories” on the right again reduces screen real estate that should be available for doing what WordPress is for: writing words.
Yes it is possible to remove these boxes, but then one must re-enable them to actually make available what has been written or to make them searchable.
I notice that in your feedback forum, the window does not contain any active content on the sides! You make this a standard in WordPress!
