I don't want to start a big (and more or less useless) discussion, here, but just some thoughts on this statement:JohnFredC wrote:We have spend a lot of time on the XnView GUI design in this forum. Because of that XnView has extremely good usability and looks great! ...
From my point of view, the focus in the forum in the recent past was much on GUI design and usability. But comparatively few of those things have made it into the recent XnView versions. So there's still quite a lot on Pierre's ToDo list and to improve, see topic Core functionality, formats, and usability.
But I agree:
The corner stones of XnView MP are set right now, so it's important to discuss basic and general ideas like the management and handling of metadata, now, and implement it in XnView MP, soon. So for a while it would be good if we could progress the ideas and discussion regarding management and handling of meta data and Pierre would try to join those discussions and implement it in XnView MP. Changing architecture and basic ideas later will be much more effort (or even impossible) and people might loose their metadata if a new concept was introduced later.