I just posted a feature request out on the Eclipse site for refactoring without modal windows. ME team, any refactorings that you start providing for Hibermate, Spring, Struts, and XML should behave this way as well.

To best see what I am talking about, please check out the MSDN site to see what is coming in VB.NET 2005.


Overview:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/refactor/

Short videos that demo functionality:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/VBasic/Downloads/2005/Tools/Refactor/30SecDemo.Aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/VBasic/Downloads/2005/Tools/Refactor/3MinDemo.Aspx

Andy,
This is very interesting work, we will certainly take it under consideration. I would say the most likely outcome is that we continue to follow the Eclipse development style and presentation, whatever that may be.