I would like to see if other people are seeing the same thing that I am with the change to require users to "click to edit".

I just timed a few common activities that I perform on a daily basis when maintaining DNN sites between a 6.2.3 site and a 7.0 site.  The 7.0 site although faster to load pages, took me almost 3 times a long to actually perform the edits.

I think this is due to a few things.

1. Once I start editing, I often have many more edits to do, often on other pages
2. When logging in as a host/admin I shouldn't have to click "Edit" just to add a user on the User Accounts page for example.
   1. Similarly to this even a "sticky" mode where once I turn on edit mode would be better
3. Removing the "Skin", and "Tab Name" from the quick access items in the control panel makes for a lot more time editing things that I used to be able to do without waiting for the full load of a dialog
4. Similar to #3 "Copy Permissions to Childen" was key when setting up pages/structures when building out a site.  Lots of time is added now that this is gone

I would appreciate others opinions here.  For one off edits I think the new setup is great, but there is a lot of pain added for new site builds, and regular day-to-day edits.

#1 and #2) I'll defer until the changes Will spoke about come into effect.  I think that will resolve it.

#3)  I tend to agree, although, honestly, I seldom used those quick edit features even though I knew they were there.  Definitely see the benefit though.  There is a trade off between "clean" and "convenient".  I think we are moving more towards "clean", which is good but does necessitate some loss of previous convenience.

#4) Same as above, I see the benefit, but I so rarely used it, I'm OK with it being on the actual Page Settings control only.  Might just be me though.