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The links in the readme aren't all pointing explicitly to Github. This causes them to break on PyPi.

Add a setup wizard to setup Borg-Qt and a backup repository.

For backups over SSH it would be nice to have a way for Borg-Qt to detect if it's currently connected to the correct network.
Probably the easiest way would be to detect if the server IP is online and if it's online check if the SSH connection works.

When a VM is running during backup it can get into a broken state. Therefore a VM should be shutdown or suspended before taking a backup.
It would be good if Borg-Qt informs the user about running VMs so that he can put it into a save state if he decides to do so.
It would probably be a good idea to make this an optional feature. Meaning that the user can deactivate it in the settings.

It would make it for users much easier if they could install Borg-Qt through pip.
However for that we would’ve to rewrite the code quite a bit.

Currently all of the values in the config class are getting assigned manually this doesn't scale very well and adds a lot of possible failure points.
It would be nice if as much as possible would happen programmatically.

When borg-qt gets run from the command line this message shows up:

QBasicTimer::start: QBasicTimer can only be used with threads started with QThread

Not a serious problem but something that should be fixed.
Maybe this will help:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13562501/why-i-get-qtimer-can-only-be-used-with-threads-started-with-qthread-messages-i

Add an option to add multiple repositories and a way to switch between them.

Currently the layout is fixed to a certain size. I should improve it so that the user can rescale the window.
Especially since the text sometimes doesn't fit into its box when the font size gets changed.

@Nebucatnetzer did you compare these?

e.g. what's missing in vorta that is in borg-qt? or vice versa.

maybe it would be a good idea to unite forces in 1 project.

I'm having a local setup without a server (backing up to an external hard drive). Removing the server and user option from the config file causes borg-qt to crash. Is there a way to disable server connections yet?

Currently one can only select one specific on which backups should happen.
It would be nice if we could support multiple weekdays so that for example backups happen on Monday, Wednesday and Friday but not on the other days.

An option to customize the archive name would be good.
Maybe an option to predefine automatic names like it is now and if one disables that option it prompts every time one creates an archive.
For automatic backups we could provide a default that gets used when the user disables the name for manual backups.

When an archive is mounted and a user wants to delete an archive the application crashes.
This is the same problem as with creating a backup while there are mounted archives.
It should therefore be possible to copy the behaviour of the backup function to the delete function.

Add a feature to automatically remove archives matching a certain pattern.

When Borg-Qt can't find the repo it would be good to add a prompt which asks the user if Borg-Qt should setup the repo for the user.

For a lot of users it's not obvious that the "Mount" button is the one they should use to restore single files.
A little dialog which shows up after they clicked restore would probably help with that.
Something like: "Do you want to restore a single or just a few files or a complete archive?"
Depending on the answer they select it then either continues with the restore or with the mount function.

It might be interesting or useful to be able check the archive details.
Maybe we can add a function which displays a pop-up with the information when we double click on an archive.

With a fresh install the program crashes instantly with the error popup

"Error

Configuration file not found!"

which I guess is correct because no config file exists, but also doesn't give the opportunity to initialise a (empty) config file.

An option to search for items in the archives would be nice.
However I don't know how achievable this would be.
I reckon we would've to save a list of all the processed items for all archives.

It would be nice to have the application running on other platforms as well.
OS X would be most likely easier than Windows, especially since Borg pulled their support for Windows.
Would be good if someone with a Mac could have a look at this.