VisiPics version 2.0

This is a draft page to share and create the new VisiPics 2.0 .

Your vision, my vision, what's possible or not possible. Use the Talk page to share your ideas. I will try to keep this page as clean as possible, so your advices will be deleted once read and understood. It doesn't mean I accept or refuse it. :)

User experience

What do you think are the strong and weak points of VisiPics 1.3

Strong points

• Compatible on Linux with Wine

Weak points

Installer

• Installs in english, instead of asking which language to use beforehand

Interface

• The interface isn't intuitive, and a lots of users doesn't even want to try in fear they will delete precious pictures
• The red/green dots, a lots of users miss their meaning
• The thumbnails are too small and difficult to read
• Can't choose the way pictures are sorted
• You can't choose what informations to display on each picture, and they aren't easy to get
• The interface can't be customized
• There are not enough feedback, the user doesn't know if he's deleting the right pictures
• Compare between folder should be improved, and truely separate both folders on screen
• Display all groups of duplicates in a single Windowed interface, no pages anymore

Tools

• No command line use for power-users
• Auto-select is too limited, add a powerful configuration interface
• It's impossible to see the "ignored" pictures list
• There is no way to ignore completly a picture from the scan. Add a new type of status, "protected" along with "ignored"
• A project is very limited use currently. Give more informations to the user about each created project.

Engine

• Crashes on very huge collections, improve to rely on the hard-drive more
• Crashes on some 64bits systems
• Current's multithreading is unstable