Brainstorming¶

Brainstorming version 1.0

Future versions¶

• Fork Qt and improve http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/master/src/corelib/io/qfilesystemwatcher.cpp (and dependence files) to
  • Watch "recursively" and "passively"
  • For the three platforms : Linux/Win/MacOSX
• The user can set a flag to active bandwidth and CPU limitation. If activated then downloading, uploading and hashing rates will be reduced.
• The user can dynamically change the number of downloader in the settings window (1 to 10 for example).
• Private chat (point-to-point).
• Channel chat (each user can join one or more channel and he will receive all the messages broadcasted to the selected channels)
• Detect duplicates (files which have the same size, same hash and same name) on the local machine and allow the user to easily remove them.
  • [Greg] Compare only the hashes is better because some identical files may have not the same filename. Moreover the size (or the name) is pointless because the hash identify the data.
• See by an icon next to the peer name in the peer list when a peer has setted the option to reduced the bandwidth.
• An URL is displayed on top of the file browsing windows like : aybabtu://192.168.1.46/movies/sci-fi. It's allowed to copy or paste an URL.
  • There is a button somewhere to open a blank browsing window.
• The users can add some comments or tags associated to theirs sharing. These comments or tags are displayed in the list of peers (new column ? tooltip ?).
  • You can switch the peer-list to a tag-list
• Search in meta data like ID3tag and in compressed file (zip, etc.).
• Free space management.
• Preview of video and mp3 files from a peer. Streaming ?
• Virtual folder to aggregate some real folders. For example the virtual folder 'Divx' may merge '/mnt/Divx1', '/mnt/Divx2' and '/home/paul/movies'.
• Multi languages. (that can be changed dynamically on the fly, available with Qt).
• Create a theme with : Qt Style Sheets. See the interface of Qt Examples and Demos.
• Automatically detect a running game and set the limitation flag.
• Automatically detect CPU/bandwidth usage and set limitation flag.
• Protect some sharing by a password / user rights for shares.
• Statistics window with real time graphs. (see the statistics of eMule).
  • The most uploaded files
• IPv6 support.
• The user can save favorites (a folder in a peer). The favorites are displayed in a panel below the peer list.
• The peer list shows by an icon the OS (Linux/MacOSX/Windows)
• Use of a faster malloc lib like nedmalloc or hoard.