Hi,
First to introduce myself: I am happy to continue my contributions to phpmyadmin. I was the one that outsourced all the strings to make possible the multi-language version.
(By the way, I suggest that all new strings be put in the english messages file, and a request be sent to the translators list about it. There are strings not outsourced in main.php3)
Suggestion 1:
At my site, most users don't have create_priv, and the "Create new database" box confuses them, especially new mysql users.
I suggest to hide this box from those users.
Suggestion 2:
It would be useful to allow users to modify some parameters via the GUI, for example $cfgShowBlob.
Also when editing a text field (blob), to be able to specify the size of the textarea.