Wouldn't it be nice to have the option to show your personal inventory and your storage as a text listing instead of graphical. EVE has this system and I always use text instead of graphics. This would reduce lag IMHO, and might help when trying to drag items from inventory to repair terminal or TT. Also you could see all your items when you exceed the item limit since the limit is probably there because displaying all the items graphically bogs down the system.
Yes this wold be nice. Especially if it will reduce load time. Altough it seems ot me most of the storage lag is caused by the serverside and not the loading of the icons from your HDD.
I would love to have the option to have either text or icon. text would be less of a lag than the icon but then again icons can be useful when wanting to get a quick view of what you need (like with the paint colors)