@ibnat – quick update on this. I have received your emails. I just have very limited free time for coding these days. To address some of your questtions and to fill you in on the overall time-frame:
Donations can go straight to @robin-w. Robin has been working on this plugin for like a decade and deserves every bit of donations. Thank you for the offer though!
This particular request to add ALL buttons in 2 rows, styled the same is going to be quite involved.
1.) Favorites/Subscribe buttons are currently using the default bbPress location – to the right of the breadcrumbs.
2.) ALL other buttons are using the 1 or 2 row format. Making any changes to that (like including Favorites/Subscribe buttons) would require a complete code write for how buttons, button rows, and button order are currently handled.
It is do-able, and I can see others utilizing it to customize the button layout….but it will be very time consuming to accomplish, and will have to wait until after my move. Unless @robin-w wants to pick this one up (also limited time these days), it will probably have to wait until October or November.
With that said, is there something quick/simple that could help hold you over until then?
Simple CSS code snippets could be done for simple styling changes, but completely re-writing the code for layout restructuring is a bit much for the time being.