Holy shit, that QT Designer and the dockable UI stuff will be a godsend for custom tools (I'm thinking of my in-house stuff mostly, but also for third-party scripts), a proper graphical UI editor and tons of flexible controls, along with the new icon formats you can load, will make for WAY slicker scripted tools that…
in addition to the color syntax, You can change the Script Editor Background color. My eyes are so happy: viewport 2.0 seems nice so far. http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/stevenr/maya_2011_highlight_viewport_2_0
Sounds good, but what about syntax highlighting? Finally! Most people are still using yee-old MJ Polytools for this, and I made a version myself a few months back sense didn't want to have to use a plugin for it. Will be interesting to see how well this compares to existing scripts. So will we finally be able to do insets…