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If there is a bumping feature I think the bumped pictures should retain original file name.

Wacintaki does this as of version 1.3 (finally), as will my next oekaki.  Wax Poteto is a bit hopeless in this regard.

As mentioned elsewhere, the file name should have place holding zeros at the beginning for file names that don't use all the digits yet

Definately.  Version control will also be implemented, though I don't know if it will be as robust as seen on 2draw.net.  I prefer minimalist software designed for homepages, not large communities, so don't expect too many version control features.

I suppose "safety saves" would not up the save number, but I don't really care if that part uped the number or not.  I would guess most of your users would desire safety saves to not up the number.

Safety saves aren't meant to show up on the board, so I don't think the numbers really mean anything.  A hash name would suffice until the picture is posted and would then be renamed.

Allow for images to be posted as replies.

I'm not sure about this.  It clutters things a lot, and oekaki doesn't really follow forum design principles.

I plan to use real BBCode, though, so people could use the [ img] tag in their replies, if enabled.

allow threads to be started with no image.

I'm not too keen on this, as it didn't seem to work very well on the old OekakiBBS boards (people kept flooding).  Again, oekaki isn't a forum.

Any other opinions?

What would be nice is the ability to post things other than just images, such as sound clips.  I'm looking around for other cool applets that might be worthy to include in an oekaki board.  You know, creativity applets.

This one isn't something I could include, but something along those lines would be a lot of fun.

I would like the inclusion of a "paint chat" program

As with all chat systems, it required a server-side background task, which many servers do not support.  The most I can do it reserve a menu link pointing to an external site.  No level of integration is practical.

I would like the app to already fit the window when I first open it.

I tried doing that, but using DOM to resize applet containers crashes some browsers, particularly Safari.  Macs DO NOT like to resize Java applets once they have started running.  There is no standards-compliant way to get the screen size, either.

Wacintaki has sorting based on drawing order, and based on comments.  I would like a selection that would order them based on both.

Changing sort criteria is easy.  Managing screen real estate is not. 

I'm trying to get stuff drawn on paper before doing any code.  I've never been too happy with the menu system.

Suggestion:
The "public" setting available when uploading a picture.

Type your reply to a thread without replacing the currently viewed page in order to do your typing; or allow for the other comments to still be seen when typing your reply.

Yeah, I've been lazy about adding fixing that.

As mentioned elsewhere, the layout desired would have left justified pictures

The thing that ticks me off, is that there's no way to wrap headers, so the member's name might be justified to the right of the picture and the comment is justified to the left.  I've always hated that about OekakiBBS.  It's easy to make good layouts for forum software because there are no images.  Oekaki layouts are very difficult, and HTML has almost no justification rules unless you resort to (ugh) tables.

The switching horizontal/vertical layout is the best compromise I could come up with, especially since every picture may be a different size.  To be honest, I also personally find newspaper layout cleaner and easier to use than magazine layout.  Of course, it's easier for me to code, too.  I avoid Javascript and DOM whenever possible. 

The "public" setting available when uploading a picture.

Oops.  That was an oversight.

In reguards to creative related things to add, of course there could be an mp3 player, wav player, or something like modplug's old tracker plug in http://modplug.com/

MP3 and WAV players are easy.  Modern web browsers know how to handle those formats.

You have no idea how much I'd love MOD and XM support, maybe VST.  Unfortunately, modplug (which I use almost daily), has been discontinued as a browser plugin.  I don't know why there's so little interest in MODs these days, and why development of new formats has effectively stopped.