What do you still want back from OS 9?
Soundsets!
I want my group sharing prefs back. I'm sure there is a way to do it in OS X, but I miss the control panel.
I think I can finally part with windowshade, now that Expose is here.
I'd like to see something like pop up drawers implemented in the dock.
Am I missing anything?
I want my group sharing prefs back. I'm sure there is a way to do it in OS X, but I miss the control panel.
I think I can finally part with windowshade, now that Expose is here.
I'd like to see something like pop up drawers implemented in the dock.
Am I missing anything?
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Actually, I find Mac OS X Panther's UI speed good enough, especially when considering how much more it has to do compared to Classic Mac OS.
One feature I guess I'd like: a smarter finder with regards to the Library folder. In Classic Mac OS, dragging, say, a font into the System Folder would present you with a dialog saying something like, "Fonts belong in the Fonts folder. Would you like this file put there?" I think it would really come in handy, just as an added convenience, to be able to drag a font or prefspanel or something else to my Library and have it automatically move things around. Calendars, ColorSync profiles, FontCollections, Fonts, Keyboard Layouts, Keychains, PreferencePanes, Printers, and Screen Savers are the ones that come to mind.
Also, it would be nice if these folders had icons differentiating them like the various folders in Classic's System Folder.
OT: speaking of icons, why does the Utilities folder still not have an icon? I mean, for crying out loud, Apple even made a system icon for the /Developer folder!
Easier backup of the 'system folder.' OS X feels too spread out, while the Classic OS was just a simple folder with everything inside of it. You can't just copy an OS X folder to an external drive and boot off of it.
Better handling of creator codes. This may be coming with an updated meta-data full file system, but I miss the functionality of the old creator codes.
Apple's done some nice work in this area for Panther, actually, though it could nicer still.
I believe you can double-click 3rd party System Preference pref panes, or or drop and drag in and out of the System Pref app window now.
Fonts you can double click to get a preview and then install with a click of the button, if you're prepared to use Font Book...
As for screen savers... just try double-clicking.
There is nothing that I want from OS 9.
The feeling that my Mac is a Mac and not some geek boy piece of kit.
2) Snappiness
3) Snappiness
4) Snappiness
5) Snappiness
And yes, I forgot one thing: Snappiness I also miss the Kaleidoscope schemes I had.
What I don't miss:
Restarting the puter 2 or 3 times a day
Other than that, I don't miss OS 9 at all.
But for myself, I still really miss the ease with which OneClick could make a quick, reliable macro and the ability to make my palettes appear however I choose.
Kaleidoscope was always fun too.
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Originally posted by tngland
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Some of that is quite impressive work.
In OS X, if I find something in the Trash that shouldn't be there, I have to manually plow through all the folders to put it back.
I'd also love sound sets too (no I don't mean Xounds), and the nice 20 colors we all had in the past. I'd love OS X's speed to match OS 9's (that'd be so great) as well.
Panther is Teh Snappy? for me at least, and RAM disks seem superfluous when the system stuffs everything it can into RAM already. I don't miss Windowshade at all, especially with Exposé. Hell, I never minimize windows any more even on my small monitor.
Hm? I'm having trouble thinking of anything else?
[B]Soundsets!
Definitely sound sets!
And of course, snappiness -- but I have to admit that OSX is (finally) getting better in this area (esp on faster machines). But I agree that a clever use of sounds from time to time would go a long way toward improving "perceived" snappiness.
1) Widgets in the right place (close on the left, resize/minimize on the right)
2) Decent open/save dialogues.
3)Stability in GUI environment
What I mean by #3 is that we are seeing yet another change in the GUI with Panther. The "Classic" Mac OS GUI rarely changed; although default font and folder looks changed, it was essentially the same all the way to OS 9.
With Mac OS X's flashy new GUI, some good things were introduced and a lot of bad things were introduced. Between 10.0 and 10.2 a lot of the good things from Mac OS 9 returned, but some of them inexplicably have not. Instead of having the decent open/save dialogs from the "classic" OS, Panther adds this "favorite places" sidebar that adds complexity without representing the filesystem faithfully.
Basically it boils down to Apple creating a problem by switching a lot of the UI for no good reason in the OS 9->OS X transition, then refusing the fix the bad UI elements with the simplest solution (using the OS 9 methods). As a result, complexity is added to the UI...Very Microsoftish, I must say!
Yes to the icons and assistance with the "Library."
Originally posted by kelib
1) Snappiness
2) Snappiness
3) Snappiness
4) Snappiness
5) Snappiness
So you want to crash faster?
Anyway, I hate OS 9 with passion. If it wasn't OS X I would be using Windows full time right now