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Honestly, I don't know why we ever moved to tree views for the installed pane in the first place. Tree views are notoriously awful UI components. I think our old, uncategorized list was better compared to this (especially since we had made that list very, very fast in its most recent incarnation before the new UI). To me this treeview just seems anomalous because we don't use a treeview like this anywhere else in the UI. The available pane views use category icons that lead to lists., Why is it different for installed items?
Another thing that I find inconvenient about the treeviews is that when you open the pane you see absolutely nothing useful at all until you click open one of the categories. And, as this bug so aptly describes, that's currently not easy to do because of the tiny disclosure triangle (this is, after all, how treeviews work).
I suppose it's far to late in the cycle to switch back now, but, isn't the better long term solution for this usability issue to get rid of the treeview altogether and have the installed pane look and act like the available pane?
Or maybe there's just something I'm missing. :)