1) Customizable keyboard shortcuts for EVERYTHING, including launching applications, connection/disconnecting from my internet connection, etc, just like WindowMaker.
2) A more easily configurable and standardized Java command-line environment, including default JDK, like Gentoo's.
3) An 100% xterm window behaviour option for Terminal.
4) Spotlight that shows you the directory where a file is located on the search results immediately.
5) Spotlight full window that responds to Command-TAB.
6) Middle-click behaviour, type ahead find and other Firefox behaviour in Safari.
7) A better indication of context in Finder when looking at the contents of a folder. The title bar and status bar don't tell me where I am.
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Originally posted by JavaCowboy
1) Customizable keyboard shortcuts for EVERYTHING, including launching applications, connection/disconnecting from my internet connection, etc, just like WindowMaker.
2) A more easily configurable and standardized Java command-line environment, including default JDK, like Gentoo's.
3) An 100% xterm window behaviour option for Terminal.
4) Spotlight that shows you the directory where a file is located on the search results immediately.
5) Spotlight full window that responds to Command-TAB.
6) Middle-click behaviour, type ahead find and other Firefox behaviour in Safari.
Is it crazy to want some sort of theme implementation built into the OS? Shapeshifter is a little jitzy, and something built into the UI with specific guidelines would make it alot smoother.
I know Apple prides itself on it's OS Design, but options are never a bad thing. Imagine themes that Apple themselves would make, they'd be flawless.
7) A better indication of context in Finder when looking at the contents of a folder. The title bar and status bar don't tell me where I am.
I know that this is probably not what you are looking for. I would imagine that you want to see where you are without any interaction.
Nonetheless, did you know that you can Cmd-click on the title of the Finder window in Tiger and see a dropdown of the path structure to where you are located? You can select one of the folders in the dropdown and go immediately to that point.
One update that I would like to see, not necessarily 18 months from now, but in Mail, I would like to see it automatically download images in email when you have the email address in your address book.
In other words, if I have the option turned off to display images in downloaded email, yet I have collected an email address previously, I would like it to go ahead and display the images in that message.
I have seen this in other mail clients. It would be nice to have Mail do this as well.
I think there's something that they've been hinting to for a long time.
That Services pane. But they gave up and just left it there. Hell. I'd do something like that. This is what.. like 1 or 2 years away. I imagine a GUI that's out of this world and the computer runs on like, cheese or something. Maybe anti-matter.
But seriously. The Services pane in everything would be really great if it could launch a fast-quick little shit that would get the job done, for every service. I want to grab the screen, and without Grab actually launching (like in the very background) and take the picture or whatever I want where i need it since it's selectable.
I'm thinking Leopard isn't going to focus on speed of things because by then something completely different is going to work for the computer world. Maybe. Or it could be OS XI. That stack thing sounds really cool, but I don't see an environment for that until we're past OS X and into something that's more interactive.
Wow so many things in my head. I'm just happy someone already created a thread on an operating system that is so under the covers it's only known fact is its name.
Did we know Tiger had spotlight... or was that the same way?
Nonetheless, did you know that you can Cmd-click on the title of the Finder window in Tiger and see a dropdown of the path structure to where you are located? You can select one of the folders in the dropdown and go immediately to that point.
Well this feature exists since the ol' System 7 days.
I would like to see safari and mail intergrated, to me they go hand in hand. With the advent of higher broadband rates and falling costs I think think more people will communicate via voip and iChat! So expect to see more improvments in this area.
Multiple Desktops, Something like Expose - you hit F"whatever" or mousebutton if you have multi button mouse or screen corners or maybe a icon on the dock. the screen does a transition (cube, wipe etc) your dock and menu bar stay but your first desktop goes away and a new one apears.
For Example lets say my setup is a Dual G5 PM with a 20inch ACD. I could set it up so that itunes is playing in one desktop and say working on a photoshop image in another. Going back and forth between the two with a press of a button. this could be nice for those who dont have dual displays.
-ichat: pick up VoIP, tightly integrated with addressbook, and include a digital answering machine. .Mac service would include a phone # for incoming calls. Pick up tabbed message window and multiple simultaneous accnts. Add the Get/Share files feature from AIM. Look towards Adium for UI flexibility. Integrate beautiful growl like notification system (maybe a system wide service that other apps can use too?)
-Dock: you can set a folder in the dock to be a popup folder; one normal click will automatically do the same thing as click and hold or right click does now, and the contents of the folder would be preloaded so it pops up instantly.
-Dashboard: allow multiple dashboards- one for research and one for playing/putzing around, whatever. Allow widgets to be easily pulled outside of dashboard (i know this exists now, but its limited and not easy/intuitive)
-hibernate
-home on ipod integrated into the consumer os as an option.
-Fix iTunes so it can be a full media player. Right now its a great music player/organizer, and a weak as$ video player. Integrate the full screen dashboard from dvd player and quicktime into iTunes, and give a hotkey for going different size video. Or fix quicktime so it has decent organizational features. Just do something! Apple might miss the boat on this one if it doesn't act fast.
-Themes: Keep it limited and only official supported themes, so crap doesn't spread and dilute the brand, but still give us themes. Some people hate brushed metal. Some want all brushed metal. Some people don't like the new spotlight/mail theme. Personally i love it and want the finder and more apps to adopt it. Allow me to make that choice.
spotlight- search/catalogue networked volumes. Volumes could be periodically indexed over the network if windows users are changing stuff, or just keep a database on the volume if its an all post-panther network.
The Mac has always used a vertical list to show the hierarchy that you are in.
The Save As and Open dialog boxes show the path the same way. Mac users are not used to seeing a string with delimiters to indicate the path.
Fine. Why can't they include this as an option that's disabled by default?
Apple's obsession with simplicity is all well and good, but it sometimes comes at the cost of useful functionality. This is why I keep using Firefox and will never switch to Safari.
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2) A more easily configurable and standardized Java command-line environment, including default JDK, like Gentoo's.
3) An 100% xterm window behaviour option for Terminal.
4) Spotlight that shows you the directory where a file is located on the search results immediately.
5) Spotlight full window that responds to Command-TAB.
6) Middle-click behaviour, type ahead find and other Firefox behaviour in Safari.
etc....
Originally posted by JavaCowboy
1) Customizable keyboard shortcuts for EVERYTHING, including launching applications, connection/disconnecting from my internet connection, etc, just like WindowMaker.
2) A more easily configurable and standardized Java command-line environment, including default JDK, like Gentoo's.
3) An 100% xterm window behaviour option for Terminal.
4) Spotlight that shows you the directory where a file is located on the search results immediately.
5) Spotlight full window that responds to Command-TAB.
6) Middle-click behaviour, type ahead find and other Firefox behaviour in Safari.
etc....
I know Apple prides itself on it's OS Design, but options are never a bad thing. Imagine themes that Apple themselves would make, they'd be flawless.
Originally posted by JavaCowboy
7) A better indication of context in Finder when looking at the contents of a folder. The title bar and status bar don't tell me where I am.
I know that this is probably not what you are looking for. I would imagine that you want to see where you are without any interaction.
Nonetheless, did you know that you can Cmd-click on the title of the Finder window in Tiger and see a dropdown of the path structure to where you are located? You can select one of the folders in the dropdown and go immediately to that point.
In other words, if I have the option turned off to display images in downloaded email, yet I have collected an email address previously, I would like it to go ahead and display the images in that message.
I have seen this in other mail clients. It would be nice to have Mail do this as well.
Originally posted by othello
working FTP in the finder
actually we should have sftp in the finder
...definitely a good idea, especially considering Windows already integrates FTP into Windows Explorer / IE (or Exploiter as I call it)
That Services pane. But they gave up and just left it there. Hell. I'd do something like that. This is what.. like 1 or 2 years away. I imagine a GUI that's out of this world and the computer runs on like, cheese or something. Maybe anti-matter.
But seriously. The Services pane in everything would be really great if it could launch a fast-quick little shit that would get the job done, for every service. I want to grab the screen, and without Grab actually launching (like in the very background) and take the picture or whatever I want where i need it since it's selectable.
I'm thinking Leopard isn't going to focus on speed of things because by then something completely different is going to work for the computer world. Maybe. Or it could be OS XI. That stack thing sounds really cool, but I don't see an environment for that until we're past OS X and into something that's more interactive.
Wow so many things in my head. I'm just happy someone already created a thread on an operating system that is so under the covers it's only known fact is its name.
Did we know Tiger had spotlight... or was that the same way?
Originally posted by kwsanders
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Nonetheless, did you know that you can Cmd-click on the title of the Finder window in Tiger and see a dropdown of the path structure to where you are located? You can select one of the folders in the dropdown and go immediately to that point.
Well this feature exists since the ol' System 7 days.
Anyway i am pretty much surprised most
- even "advanced" - users don't know that
feature. Actually, it makes your daily experience
with files and folders such an ease.
Well this feature exists since the ol' System 7 days.
Anyway i am pretty much surprised most
- even "advanced" - users don't know that
feature. Actually, it makes your daily experience
with files and folders such an ease.
Or you can go into the Finder toolbar customization and place the "Path" button in your toolbar. This is just another way to do the same thing.
Originally posted by macrules101
Or you can go into the Finder toolbar customization and place the "Path" button in your toolbar. This is just.
Well, personally, the "path" button is not my path,
perhaps it is so, because i am not used to think in terms of
"path" or "directory". However just as you say, another way
to do the same thing.
Originally posted by Vox Barbara
Well, personally, the "path" button is not my path,
perhaps it is so, because i am not used to think in terms of
"path" or "directory". However just as you say, another way
to do the same thing.
It's still less intuitive. When I open Info for the file, I see the full path right away. Why couldn't they just add the path to the status bar?
Originally posted by JavaCowboy
It's still less intuitive. When I open Info for the file, I see the full path right away. Why couldn't they just add the path to the status bar?
The Mac has always used a vertical list to show the hierarchy that you are in.
The Save As and Open dialog boxes show the path the same way. Mac users are not used to seeing a string with delimiters to indicate the path.
Originally posted by lundy
The Mac has always used a vertical list to show the hierarchy that you are in.
The Save As and Open dialog boxes show the path the same way. Mac users are not used to seeing a string with delimiters to indicate the path.
Except for on the Spotlight/Finder search now which shows the path as a string. Each clickable to take you anywhere within that path.
Originally posted by Vox Barbara
Well this feature exists since the ol' System 7 days.
Anyway i am pretty much surprised most
- even "advanced" - users don't know that
feature. Actually, it makes your daily experience
with files and folders such an ease.
My middle mouse button has been Command-Click for some time now; it makes both that and Safari (open in new tab) so much easier.
Multiple Desktops, Something like Expose - you hit F"whatever" or mousebutton if you have multi button mouse or screen corners or maybe a icon on the dock. the screen does a transition (cube, wipe etc) your dock and menu bar stay but your first desktop goes away and a new one apears.
For Example lets say my setup is a Dual G5 PM with a 20inch ACD. I could set it up so that itunes is playing in one desktop and say working on a photoshop image in another. Going back and forth between the two with a press of a button. this could be nice for those who dont have dual displays.
-Dock: you can set a folder in the dock to be a popup folder; one normal click will automatically do the same thing as click and hold or right click does now, and the contents of the folder would be preloaded so it pops up instantly.
-Dashboard: allow multiple dashboards- one for research and one for playing/putzing around, whatever. Allow widgets to be easily pulled outside of dashboard (i know this exists now, but its limited and not easy/intuitive)
-hibernate
-home on ipod integrated into the consumer os as an option.
-Fix iTunes so it can be a full media player. Right now its a great music player/organizer, and a weak as$ video player. Integrate the full screen dashboard from dvd player and quicktime into iTunes, and give a hotkey for going different size video. Or fix quicktime so it has decent organizational features. Just do something! Apple might miss the boat on this one if it doesn't act fast.
-Themes: Keep it limited and only official supported themes, so crap doesn't spread and dilute the brand, but still give us themes. Some people hate brushed metal. Some want all brushed metal. Some people don't like the new spotlight/mail theme. Personally i love it and want the finder and more apps to adopt it. Allow me to make that choice.
spotlight- search/catalogue networked volumes. Volumes could be periodically indexed over the network if windows users are changing stuff, or just keep a database on the volume if its an all post-panther network.
-As stated earlier, KISS network file sharing. Bonjour enabled finder. FTFF
-Make services more accessible, easy keyboard shortcut to bring forward the services menu or something.
iPhoto 5 is broken. Colors change unexpectedly. fix the bug asap
Originally posted by lundy
The Mac has always used a vertical list to show the hierarchy that you are in.
The Save As and Open dialog boxes show the path the same way. Mac users are not used to seeing a string with delimiters to indicate the path.
Fine. Why can't they include this as an option that's disabled by default?
Apple's obsession with simplicity is all well and good, but it sometimes comes at the cost of useful functionality. This is why I keep using Firefox and will never switch to Safari.
Originally posted by JavaCowboy
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Apple's obsession with simplicity is all well and good, but it sometimes comes at the cost of useful functionality.
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This subjekt (simplicity) has been discussed in several
huge threads. However, Simplicity is indeed a very powerful tool.
The easier a particular task is accomplished, the more does
an average user lose fear to do something wrong, the more
self-confidence is achieved. This gains lust and motivation
to work cheerfully with your software (and hardware).
If an average user gets a lot of options to play with,
there are also inherently a lot of options to fail. This creates
psychological blocks and an unhealthy mood to avoid to work
with that troublesome software.
So Simplicity is Apples venture about very complex technology
under the hood. It is all about the user experience. This is
what S.J. calls "the soul of the Mac is its OS."
My two cents.