Software Wish List

[Andy]

I would like to develop a software application. At the moment I am thinking of ideas about what product to create.

Is there any software you wish you could download but can't seem to find anywhere? It would be something you were prepared to pay for.

Please list your software wish list and the kind of price you would pay.

If I develop the software I would give a free copy to the person who first suggested it.

It needs to be software to run on a computer (Windows/Mac/Linux). It can be software to interact with the internet even though it runs on a home/office computer.

Looking forward to your suggestions - Andy

[Andy]

Well, I have the idea now. It's going to be a web site development tool unlike any other.

This one will let you quickly and easily make search engine friendly sites using wizards for all the tricky stuff and will be geared towards standards compliance, adopting XHTML and Style sheets.

The site as a whole will be managed by an offline database-driven admin tool but the published site will be pure HTML.

There will be templates but no wysiwg since I don't see a way to implement this without bending the philosophy of separating markup from styles. Instead I am planning on having styled html code and mouse-over effects to show attributes of tags and more ;-)

So it would be useful to hear about what you most dislike about your current web editor...

[SensoVision]

Is there any software you wish you could download but can't seem to find anywhere? It would be something you were prepared to pay for.

Andy you've asked good question here. Actually I would be interested to hear such wishlist as well. I was even going to ask same question myself but only when I finish with list of programs to write I have now. I'm mostly interested in writing freeware where you'll be able to donate cash if like program. I already have two scripts photogallery(just need to find good name for it) and frontend for WGET program(it's useful if you run local network and wish to give users possibility to download files e.g. for free) I plan put both them under GPL license on weblamp.net or flcd.net so everyone would be able to try them out.

Is there any software you wish you could download but can't seem to find anywhere? It would be something you were prepared to pay for.

After using Dreamweaver I was looking for WYSIWYG editor in each program on Linux, but can't find one suit my needs, after this I've stop my attention on BlueFish program which simply let you highlight syntax for many programming languages, have some wizards for CSS, tables and forms. After short use I've realized that BlueFish in combination with local Apache+PHP+MySQL is better combination than using Dreamweaver for rendering pages.
You've asked about dislikes but unfortunately I can't mention anything here... it's blazing fast and just do the job. Maybe I would like to see autocompete function to be implemented(it should happen in next releases).
For your project I can give you suggestion to write good CSS editor, as it seems that for many people idea to have layout managed by means of CSS is hard to understand so having good editor with syntax highlighting and wizard should do the job.

[Andy]

For your project I can give you suggestion to write good CSS editor, as it seems that for many people idea to have layout managed by means of CSS is hard to understand so having good editor with syntax highlighting and wizard should do the job.

Yes I plan to have a page layout wizard that generates the css layout code.

One cool feature I am near completing is a text editor where you can quickly write content with headings and color highlights. You will also be able to cut and paste documents into the editor and easily insert them into your page as html with the click of a button. The html itself will have syntax highlighting and selective display of blocks of code i.e. header, content, footer.

[Vishal]

I want to free mobaile softwere

[Andy]

I think you are writing some photo-album software Denis. What I would like in this is a rapid way to automatically publish a gallery of photos to the web from my hard disk. The software would automatically resize and compress images to be suitable for the web. The preferences would store my prefered picture sizes or quality settings.

Something that dramatically reduces the amount of manual work required on a dump of say 100 pictures from your digital camera would be good.

One feature could be to view all the thumbnails on the hard disk and quickly select all the pictures to be included by hovering the mouse over a thumbnail to get a quick larger preview. Then select each by shift+click or rubber-band selection. Maybe when the magnified preview pops up, the cursor keys could be used to move margin sliders around to select an area of the picture to be trimmed?

[SensoVision]

Right now my gallery have only option to upload single file from your browser after which it get automatically resized according to choosen preferences, after this you can give description and name, choose album where you wish to put it and start uploading another photo. I didn't thought about uploding bulk photos at once simply because I sort them out by gThumb(ACDsee like software for Linux) first and move all files I need to upload to separate folder(I believe that uploading a lot of photos not selecting them just make people leave your gallery, but uploading only few, but choosen would make browsing of gallery interesting for visitors, don't you think?).
Things you're suggesting require client program running on PC which would perform some tasks like you described and later transfer images to server. I think it's possible but I would need to finish developing gallery first and if it would become any popular maybe me or someone would write such frontend for dealing with photographs.
From other side I think it could be hard to compete with Picasa and similar services(I didn't try them myself but from what I read they offer some program like you've described).