D-LAN

h1. Brainstorming

[[Brainstorming version 1.0]]

h2. 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.

** This option is available from the trayicon (Core) or in the settings panel (GUI)

* 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":http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/stylesheet-examples.html. 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":http://www.nedprod.com/programs/portable/nedmalloc/ or "hoard":http://www.hoard.org/.