Hi Michael...

> truncate long lines of text so that anything longer than about 3 lines or so will be chopped off.
Ya, will make it feel more better.

> Also I have some other ideas that I'd like to add in the future like possibly
> render material swatches, that tend to be nice to have larger swatches if possible.

I agree with you. Usually, rendering application also have large swatch and user can easily see the preview of a material/preset.

Thanks