Another feature request: Avoid creeping featurism!

In two respects:

1. The GUI
I just upgraded to a recent version of Limewire (4.x), and was shocked to see how cluttered the GUI has become in the meantime!

Category search and result filtering is great, but it definitely messed up the user interface: more and more small windows growing into each other, some even being overlayed multiple times ("< Back to search...", several different systems of tabs in the left panel). Remember ease-of-use, please, and think of Google: One text field that will let you filter search results often does the whole trick -- the Mozilla UI is a great example.

2. Functionality
Keep Limewire a P2P filesharing app.

Please don't try to compete with chat-clients, interfaces for eBay auctions, tag editors, music library managers, pdf/zip/iso/rpm viewers and media players all at the same time. There ARE a number of good specialist apps for all these tasks already.

Make it search and download quickly and robustly, and keep it lean and mean!

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html...featurism.html

Keep up the good work!
Erich