Hokey smokes! over a thou postings in this nook of the board alone.

I'm a longtime limer, first-time poster:

Lessee, first, I'll get my vitals outta the way: running 4.1.2 Pro on Panther and on a first gen. 466 MHz G4 with 896 Megs SDRAM

Used to hate this software...called it alternately LameWare and LemonWire. But now since I've migrated to X I've gotten to love it, but still see major room for improvement:

Since there are Sooo many posts here it is impossible to find if ALL of these have been covered before or not, so without further ado, here is my Top Ten wish list for, say, LW 5pointO


10 - Dunno about anyone else, but in other software programs, I enjoy the ability to mark records and organize them in multiple ways, usually color-coding is the easiest & most visual metaphor (to wit, Finder's labels). If color-coding could be built into all panes (search, download, upload, connected hosts, incompletes), I'd be WAY more in control of my search organization and the files extant on my local volumes.

9 - I think a needed filter or pref ought to be for the end user to be able to select which file formats he/she wants INCLUDED in the searches (obviating the use of those anemic, and very limited, exclusions which are unnecessarily harder). Say, one wanted ONLY .ogg files and no .wma or .mp3s. Why should the user have to wade or devote search bandwidth to useless files?

8 - Why no date column in the Library tab's panes? I could really use knowing when certain incompletes were attempted (I'd trash older ones and keep & re-attempt the more recent ones, but as it stands now I cannot tell which are which)

7 - Movable search tabs (so I can organize the searches on my screen in any order I'd like) and while you are at it, provide the user the option of stacking search tabs as was the metaphor in previous LW versions (now if you want that feature you gotta apply ungodly skins, which among other things, besides using egregious color combos, resort to the old proprietary - and cumbersome - non-Mac-standard LW menu system). I hate, hate, HATE the current linear search tabs!!! The old system was FAR more elegant, even IF it did crowd me from time to time vertically (in which case, I'd begrudging opt for the linear format, but immediately toggle back once screen turf was ceded by the lower panes).

6 - In WAY older versions of LW, all grouped results could be un-collapsed into their individual hosts, but...no longer, a real step backwards for the citric P2P app. If the dominant host in a grouping is messed up for whatever reason, I would prefer to choose another host in that grouping but short of mousing over and trying to grok the IPs IF that even works (it isn't infallible).

5 - In congress with point #6, there used to be a CONSISTENT notation of the host IP in a column in the search pane (now many of them are not listed or masked as multiple(1)s with no reveal upon mouseover. Not only that but the download pane ALSO showed the host from which that dl'd file came or that dling in progress file was coming. This was handy for a number of reasons (if you had to abort searches and continue later, and you wanted to search for that IP specifically).

4 - It'd be nice if there were SOME multi-alert system for when LW is running in the background. In my pipe dreams, I'd make the dock lime glow & throb green when a connection is established (bright green for turbo & dull green for weaker connex) and maybe shrivel up or glow red when the connection is down. AND make the icon optionally bounce when a new file has downloaded (especially helpful for slow connections or huge files).

3 - If you discover a host that routinely is a problem node (mislabeled files, corrupted or just badly done files, etc.) the end user ought to be able to "mark" that host so that they are excluded from any future searches. A "not" filter, as it were.

2 - Why no true Boolean searching? the current filters are fer s***. Rather than returning results that match ALL your criteria, they return results that match ANY and given the sheer quantity of tuneage out here that is often an unmanageable list of results. Lots of times results are returned that cryptically match NO search criterion. Go figure.....

And the number one feature I'd love to see implemented into the next build of LimeWire:

1 - As IS mentioned elsewhere, I am very behind saved searches, a "like duh" no-brainer. If you crash or just have to close down a session for whatever reason, it is a real pain to bring up old searches again., N'est-ce pas? Maybe the ability to bookmark favorite searches and hosts like general purpose browsers do would do the trick. But also saved current searches in the case of crashes. And a more robust recovered download in the case of said crash while you are at it, guys. Many (most) of mine "disappear" upon reconnecting even if it is nigh on immediate. You can't tell me that all them hosts crashed too, or that I scared them away. ;-)