I want to make the following two suggestions to improve XnView (one of my favourite programs
):1. I miss the possibility to save the whole options. I do many modulations in XnView. If I install the program on a new computer, it's hard to do all the modulations again. It would be great, if I could load an options file, that I saved and copied before. There's much space for a "Load options"- and a "Save options"-Button left from "OK" and "Cancel". An alternative could be a .ini file that the user can copy. But my first suggestion would be more convenient.
2. The first thing my brother asked me after I recommended XnView to him was: "Does it have the possibility to do a userdefined picture sort like in Adobe Bridge?". There you can simply move pictures with the mouse from one position to another, so you can break the chosen sort order. This is very useful for sorting vacation pictures. For example, you shot a few pictures much later than others of the same issue. Than you want to move them to that issue. You want to sort by issue.
The solution for this feature could be as follows:
You add "Userdefined" in the sort menu. The user doesn't have to choose this, but if he moves a picture from one position to another, the blue dot automatically changes to "Userdefined". Now it would be important, that XnView automatically saves the sorting for this folder. This hopefully should be no problem because XnView saves the whole picture content of a folder anyway. Now, the user can switch to another sorting if he wants, but if he later selects "Userdefined" again, XnView shoes his own last sorting it kept in mind.
Of course, if you do that, XnView no longer is allowed to dublicate a picture (with the "plus" at the curser), if the user moves it with the mouse. XnView now has to dublicate only if the user presses the Ctrl-Key at the same time. But this is totally OK, because that's exactly what the user is used to when working with the Windows Explorer.
I just came from my vacation, shot many pictures and missed this possibility too. My solution was to sort by name and rename the pictures I wanted to move. But that's pretty inconvenient and time-consuming. A userdefined sort would be a great new feature.
Yours sincerely
Thomas
