Vista - A few suggestions on Foldershare's future GUI

As the developer metioned they will roll out new client in the following
months, I would like to provide a few cents here:

1. Provide users with more flexibity to control (e.g., pause/resume a sync,
set the priority, unidirection/mirror, schedule etc).
2. Keep the nice feature of letting users know what's going on during the
sync process - Which file(s) are synced now?
3. A better GUI but still keep it small and simple. I hate MS's efforts to
integrate a lot of applications together make the system bulky
4. Better handling of conflicts. If FS is disconnected and two versions of a
file are changed in two machines at the same time, both two files will be
generated on two machines. This is done silently!

This is a classic case of asking for two things that are naturally opposed to
one another. You list a whole lot of functionality and features and screens
you'd like added, but then say "but keep it simple and not bulky".

One or the other direction is possible, but not both.

My vote would be something closer to Google Talk than MSN/Live Messenger. I
think we can all agree that Messenger went a bit too far in the features
department.

I'd love some more features and control, but since I install Foldershare on
my mom's, dad's, girlfriend's computer I need it to remain hands off,
automatic and silent.

Personally I'd be happy if they just brought back the pro version with the
partial file change support.

"eruisi" wrote:

Thanks for your comments. I may made confusions in the previous post.

The client of current FS is just TOO simple and not controlability.
When I say "keept it simple", it does not mean no more new functions. The
new features I suggested are trivial. I believe you can achieve them but not
adding much codes.

One style of MS products I don't like is that they always try to integrate,
making the programs huge and vulnerable to bugs. I hope FS will not become a
component of Office suites (They already have a similar tool in Office 2007
called "Groove").

"CoreyH" wrote:

heres an idea... how about an option for foldershare to work. by default its
the current quiet opepration of foldershare, and theres also an advanced
option to be able to do those that you commented on...?

"eruisi" wrote:

More than anything, I'd like FS to be smarter when handling version
conflicts...

When two people have the same Excel file open, I'd prefer a better
explanation and options than "retry or quit".