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One last thought before I let this go:
In the settings, if there was a "power user" option that displayed an alternate UI (eg the 3-in-1 tab), you could maintain the simple, elegant current UI for existing user-base; but at the same time, expand XnConvert's reach to power-users who have more complex ...

I agree with that being the guiding principle - don't want to confuse or alienate users. Hope the above is constructive food for thought.

Yes the paired tab thing had crossed my mind too. There are many possible approaches and such a radical change (whatever the approach) be best left for a v2.0. I'll leave it to Pierre / UX experts / community to figure out the optimal solution. Thanks for the discussion - most enjoyable.

The first suggestion I think suffers from similar complicated UI problems as my first crack at this issue.

Your second possible solution has really good potential but wondered about the difficulty of trapping errors across multiple scripts.

I'm still favouring the 3-into-1 solution as the simpler ...

I see what you mean... It would create UI inconsistency.

So here's an even crazier idea...

Let's make everything an action with a minimum of one Input and one output action:

InputFilesFolders.png
Here I've gone even further by combining the 3 Input , Actions and Output tabs into a single tab ...

What I want to do is to sequence a series of transformations and exports on a single image (for example hi / medium / low res versions for an web app that targets different platforms).

It is a significant change from current version. However, from a UI perspective it just wouldn't make sense to ...

Actually you would not need an Output Tab anymore. Instead, you have an Output File action like:
OutputFileAction.png


So you have multiple "Output File" actions in this list - with a minimum of one "Output File" action. When there's only one 'Output File' action in the action list, the 'delete ...

First use and XnConvert is amazing - thank you!

I would like to be able to perform a sequence of actions on a master image and export different versions to multiple destinations.

Feature request: A new category of Actions > File Operations. The new actions would essentially contain many of the ...