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Right now this add-on's use is really restricted to just the pagination tweaks.

What I would like to see is a replacement for "Stucture Entries". This is a plugin I HATE using, but when I have to do something really custom with the Structure tree, sometimes I have to turn to it.
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/structure-entries

Now that we can use the Channel entries model in EE2, it seems like recreating a lot of what it does would be relatively easy.

Essentially, you'd need to register a handful of vars for depth, has_children, etc, and then set the order based traversing down the Structure tree. You'd probably also need an additional param for start_from or parent.

Thoughts? Do you think this is right place something like this?
Is this anything you'd interested in working on, or should I fork and give it a shot?

This is a a great plugin - makes so much more sense to take this approach than the way the standard structure pagination works. But both this and the structure-bundled approach both nuke any query strings in the URL when appending the pagination parameter. I'd be nice if the query string could be left intact and the pagination parameter appended instead.

The reason i'd like this is that I'm implementing a (fairly hacky, it has to be said!) dynamic entries filter using a GET based form and Mo' Variables (http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/mo-variables/) and with persistent query strings then I can paginate my filtered list with this extension.

I've actually currently hacked the plugin to make this work for me - happy to share but it's pretty nasty and I'm sure you can come up with a more elegant way to handle it if you think it's a good idea to include ;-)