Agreed, list of text/names only would be very nice.
I remember I had asked if it was possible to change the font in the layer and material panel (or generally throughout the Rhino UI) to a mono space font. That was here and again here. Like I explained in my previous post here, I often rely on specific naming schemes for the materials (and layers) to find and select materials (and layers) quickly. The slight shift at the end of a name (because of non-mono-spaced fonts), resulting in numbers at the end not appearing in a straight column is distracting, imo. So if the “text/names-only” materials would become a thing, I hope we could also get an option to select a monospace font for the panels, if preferred. I know I’m asking a lot now 