Wishlist

This is a wikified version of Paul Vigay's wishlist with his permission. If you have a solution, or a suggestion, feel free to add it. Use the discussion page to voice your particular opinion as to the validity of anything listed below.

Stuff People Want

Accounts	A lot of businesses use the superb Prophet 3 Professional accounts package, but development seems to have stopped, and it would be nice to see either Prophet brought up to date, or a new accounts package being developed and actively supported.
Braille transcription	Self-explanatory
eBay Toolbar	A possible idea for a small utility for RISC OS users, to aid with buying, selling, quick links to My eBay etc
EXIF Editor	Software to allow easy editing of EXIF data on JPEGs, allowing the user to easily change the date/time on digital photos. Currently, Chris Williams has ported EXIFtags, a family of UNIX programs for reading and editing EXIF data. This is a command line tool.
Genealogy	A lot of people have requested a decent 'family tree' application, possibly something like Reunion on Mac OS X
Internet Setup Utility	Getting on the Internet with RISC OS is far more difficult than it needs to be. Commercial apps like Dialup/Netfetch are fine for absolute beginners, but why isn't there an easy, free setup system for mail, news, and browsing?
OCR	A professional OCR application which would control the scanner and have the same facilities at least as Omnipage Pro
Photodesk	It would be great to see continued development and bug fixes of the Photodesk image editing software. CJE are said to have commissioned development, but it's been awfully quiet for a long time
Presentation	An up to date presentation package, like MS Powerpoint or Mac OS's Keynote
Real Audio	Sources are available, see the licensing situation
Spreadsheet	Able to cope with later Excel capabilities (although ViewXLS does go quite a long way to allowing RISC OS users to view Excel files, and Schema 2 has some Excel convertors). Any new work in this area could potentially be based upon Isis
Theme Manager	While the RISC OS desktop is incredibly customisable, it can be quite painstaking to actually create an entire new theme. Some sort of easy to use Theme creator/editor/selector Configure plugin would be useful. The best effort at this is Richard Goodwin's Theme Manager. User:Jymbob also has created some themes for RISC OS.
Unicode Printing for RISC OS 5	NetSurf won't print from the Iyonix, due to limitations in !Printers. It seems like quite a high priority to get !Printers working with the Unicode font manager
VoIP	Some form of RISC OS H.323 voice communications system. A port of Skype is unlikely, as the product is commercial, but the SIP compatible Gizmo may be more possible
Weather analysis	A program to download weather data from a Davis Vantage 2 weather station via USB and automatically upload to the Internet - eg. a replacement for the PC program WeatherLink 5.7

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