[al_f]

As you say, this was extensively debated before on the forums: I also had an email conversation with Omni about it. IIRC the reason they settled on the current system was that preference for the 2 ways of doing things was about 50:50, so they though this was the best compromise. A preference would be nice, but I can live with it the way it is - I just have my filter permanently set to "available" in context view. :)

As an aside, you can copy the style of a next action (select one, hit format > copy style) and paste it onto an available one (format > paste style), then all the available actions will look like next ones. You still have to set your filter to available, of course.