Since you asked:

my vision of a perfect launcher:

1. Single point of Entry: (I do have more than two accounts, so i have some eve installations on my pc)
=> Select which Character (!) you want to log in => launcher starts eve and you type in your PW and your Character is there.
=> Dream: (optional) Single sign on: i log on (UN/PW which are not the same as any EVE UN/PW) to the launcher and have all my chars available. i press one and the launcher startes eve and logs in the right char.
=> only downloading 1 time the patch to patch all installations (or better find a way to have only one installation for multiaccounting)
=> Copy setting from 1 Character to another (overview, Windowposition, marketwindow a.s.o.)
=> Downloading patches in Backround
=> posibility to distribute patches from 1 pc in your homenetwork to another (so if you have more than 1 PC you can config the Launcher that it askes the "ServerPC" in your homenetwork for an update!) => reduces trafik for those who dont have a big fancy internet conetion...
=> Change Settings for 1 Character (language, switch Autotarget = 0, a.s.o.)
=> Overview for all my char. Name, currently skilling X till date, Wallet, Docked in Y , Account expires on Date (or in x Days)
=> posibility to clear cach for Account / Char / installation

2. Informationwindow (optional,=> you turn it on/off and you can configure it as you like it)
=> Headline for the last 10 Dev Blogs
=> Headline for the last 10 Dev Forum Posts

make as many things optional as possible, so you dont force someone to use it.

Just my point of view.

What this guy said

Hey CCP,

Is it possible to have 1 Launcher Update more than 1 client?

This would be really useful for those of us that us different client path for each account. IE Update Drive:\Eve Online1\; Drive:\Eve Online2\ and so on. For now I'll keep using GoodSync.

Hey CCP,

Is it possible to have 1 Launcher Update more than 1 client?

This would be really useful for those of us that us different client path for each account. IE Update Drive:\Eve Online1\; Drive:\Eve Online2\ and so on. For now I'll keep using GoodSync.

This too.

Please look into the Import/Export Patch options under the "Patches" tab in the Settings menu .

If you had used junction points instead of physically separate folders, then a single run of the patcher would update all of your EVE installations at the same time.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Multiple_clients#Method_1_-_Junctions

With the bonus that EVE would take up less space on your hard drive.

Thanks for your feedback .

Well, it looks like this is the final straw to drive me away.

*Any* form of auto-patching will fail as I use neither Windows nor Apple natively. I use Wine (ie Linux) and we seem to have become the _very_ poor relation indeed. Where once there was a client we then, until this change, had to *download* the (windows) patch and apply it separately/manually. It cannot be done in the same way as a native Windows machine.

I've been around EVE for six years, and was even a member of the first CSM. But this looks like being the final straw, which is sad as I've been looking forward to (long-promised!) features.

Unless someone can tell me an alternative, that is ...

IZ