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[H.G.Muller]

Thanks! I guess some improvement could still be made, though. With these condensed lists, listboxes seem to have a definite advantage over comboboxes. When the list does not fit, scrolling through the listbox is almost as much work as opening the combobox: you have to go with the mouse pointer first to a place you don't want to be (the scroll thumb), and then have to return to the selection area. But when everything fits, it is annoying that the combobox closes after selecting the group, and you have to open it again before you can see what was inside. A listbox could have shown the group contents immediately.

Another issue I still have to solve is how to conveniently create and manage the groups. Currently this can only be done by direct editing of the list (for which there fortunately is a menu item).

Perhaps it would be an idea to allow people to select a group after they selected an engine (in stead of pressing OK), with as a result that the engine would be moved into that group. (I.e it would remember the last selected engine, and the last group selected after it, and when you OK at that point it would move it there.) On a new install you could select the group without ever having selected an engine (since you entered the dialog).

That only leaves the problem of how to create new groups.