Desktop/mobile client brainstorm post

[denise]

Many of our Google Summer of Code applicants have mentioned that they'd like to work on desktop or mobile clients. Since the application phase begins today, I thought I'd post an entry for people to mention what features and functions they consider essential in a desktop or mobile client. This will let our GSOC applicants see the thoughts of people who use the site regularly, so they can work those thoughts into their specs as they build their application.

So, this is a post for people to comment with:

* What features/functions do you consider essential in a desktop/mobile client?
* What features or things would you not want a desktop/mobile client to do?
* What are things you've loved and hated in clients you've used previously?

It's okay to answer separately for both desktop and mobile clients, since the two are only very loosely related. The more feedback you can give, the more it will help our GSOC student applicants as they design their application.

Comments

[pne]

I consider being able to set all of the assorted entry properties essential, even if I don't use some of the settings much (like location),

And it should be able to save a set of properties as default -- for example, I like to write my own HTML, so I checked the "don't autoformat" box once and told Semagic to save the settings. So now each time I open Semagic, it comes with that box pre-checked.

Some people might also want to have "Autodetect current music".

A DW client will want to have "Reason for content restriction" field.