My channels that contain many widgets fall into 2 categories: (1) those that provide ambient information, like clocks, weather, cameras, and these channels that play their widgets randomly or sequentially without my involvement (2) those that are more interactive, where I accumulate lots of widgets I want to play or interact for a longer period of time. Such as Facebook, Flickr, games, and so on.

My suggestion is targeted to the second category - the method for getting to a desired widget for this category is cumbersome, especially as the number of widgets in the channel grows.

I propose that rather than the linear method (or in addition to it), that the control panel presents a matrix of widget thumbnails so I am just a click away from selecting it, or at most a couple clicks away (depending on how many thumbnails you can fit on the page and subsequent pagination through them). I figure that if the thumbnails are descriptive enough, you can fit at the very least a 3x3 matrix (or preferably a 4x4 matrix), and in my case all my widgets in any one channel would fit in either 1 or 2 pages.

This would sure beat having to click through dozens widgets to get to the one I want.

Tony