Hi Jim,

the new currency conversion features are absolutely awesome!

I also like very much that MultiBit now shows the transaction volume in one column instead of two, it saves a lot of screen space.

One proposal for the currency conversion:
The exchanges always produce several prices, especially ask and bid rate.
Some users might want that incoming bitcoins are shown with the 'bid' exchange rate and outgoing bitcoins with the 'ask' exchange rate.
Others might want the exact opposite behaviour or that the latest price shall be used.
This can be very user specific and might even be different depending on the use case, e.g. if the user in one case acts as a local exchanger and in another use case acts as a simple consumer.

Here are my suggestions:
1. The user should be able to set the automatic currency conversion behaviour of MultiBit individually per wallet. This way users can handle different use cases by using different wallets.
2. Automatic currency conversion to BTC prior to sending BTC: The user should be able to specify in the send dialog which price to use (ask, bid, latest). The default rate should be used according to 1.
3. Automatic currency conversion to BTC prior to requesting BTC (=creation of a new address): Same like 2.
4. Automatic currency conversion behaviour in the transactions pane should be fixed per wallet according to 1.

Thinking about it, it might as well be a very bad idea due to the complexity for the user. It might create more trouble than it is worth...
Anyhow, I wanted to mention it.

Cheers,
freemoney458