number of pages in pagelist

[ccagle8]

I think pagination does not make much sense with a hierarchical view.

I completely agree. This was 80% of the reason I initially disabled it for 3.0 and now removed it.

replace the filter toggle with the filter field itself and set the focus to it initially like I did in the I18N plugin.

I'm not a fan of that right now... I am trying to keep the interface as clean and standard as possible. I've made a LOT of UI improvements to the SVN for preparation of 3.1 in the last week. (including the API request by filename you wanted)