"All I want" is a tool that solves the major issues in maintaining sets of files across time that does not get in the way. Don't get me wrong, I like Perforce for:

- atomic commits (essentially why we bought it) - good branching/merging - clean workspace (state kept at server)

But you can't say that Per-force is Per-fect. IMHO, I would like to see:

- an option "free-edit|nofree-edit" that, if set, has a client thread or process that monitors the lastmod date of files in a client workspace view and sends a "p4 edit" in the background and a message to <stdout|dialog> when the modification date changes (or something like that). Possible suboption to confirm the edit. You get the best of both worlds. p4 opened would work in the same way it does now. This is would be trivially easy to implement in the P4Web and P4Win clients, and only slightly more complex with p4 command-line interface.

- ability to store comments in specification records. Each field in a record should be able to have a list of associated metadata (rendered as comments in an editor).

- easier file renaming & reorganization (like Clearcase). I haven't used Perforce long enough for this to be an issue, nor do I have a good implementation suggestion, so I should just shutup about this for now until I think of something constructive to say.

Pardon me if I seem hostile, its really nothing personal against Perforce itself or the users of this list. Been a bit angry lately. Thanks for all the feedback,

Paul