oh, here's one. This has been one of my biggest pet-peeves with OS 10.1 - 10.4
CURSOR "STICKING"
as in, when you drag your cursor over an internet link and get the little clicky finger, the cursor remains a clicky finger even after you move the cursor off the link. Or when you get the blinky text-inputter thing, it doesn't go away, even if you drag your mouse over the dock or something.
it drives me nuts, and makes it impossible for me to try to explain things to my dad in terms of, 'when the cursor changes to X or Y, that means you are clicking the right thing'
I'm fairly pleased with things as they are, a few tweaks would do me, although I'm sure Apple will find something cool that I'll have to get.
Anyway,
1) Make folders in the dock springloaded
2) Faster safari (it's not bad, but always room for improvement!)
3) Easier ways of editing meta-data sounds cool
4) Fix the bloody address book so I can answer calls over bluetooth - it doesn't work! I use the bluetooth stuff in address book every day for sending texts, but it seems half arsed. Would be nice if answering calls on my Sony Ericsson worked, and I could send long texts.
5) Something else to make me go wow, that's cool, how did I ever live without it? (a la dashboard)
Mostly clean up and optimization to an already great OS!
OS X will evolve for many years! Leopard is another step towards a perfect OS.
1: no more gaps at the bottom of any windows, for clean edges and easier window sizing. i.e. when dock is hidden and windows are full on iMac, if bring the cursor down to the very right hand corner you cannot grab the window!
2: we all agree on this one! Consistant themes across the board, like iTunes and iPhoto.
3: Faster Safari and less slugish Mail.
4: Skypeout equivalent in iChat.
5: And some cool surprises that apple always provides!
In reading these requests one can really see how Windows came to be the mess that it is today. MS would have put all of them in.
Apple does a great job at designing a powerful OS with a simple UI that does not get in your way or slow you down with a gazzilion ways to do the sane thing, not perfect by any means but certainly perfect by today's standards.
Agreed.
Somewhat related, but what mode do people use in the Finder? I practically always use the column view, with occasional use of list view. The only time I use "icon" view is for picture folders and I set the thumbnails to be displayed and the sizes to be 128x128. I always have the toolbar and sidebar on, eschewing the Classic Mac OS window-per-folder methods.
Does anyone actually use the Classic-style folder windows anymore?
Somewhat related, but what mode do people use in the Finder? I practically always use the column view, with occasional use of list view. The only time I use "icon" view is for picture folders and I set the thumbnails to be displayed and the sizes to be 128x128. I always have the toolbar and sidebar on, eschewing the Classic Mac OS window-per-folder methods.
Does anyone actually use the Classic-style folder windows anymore?
I do the same. I use column view 95% of the time. That works very well for me, it's a much much, much, better "finder" than Window's explored in my opinion. Occasional I use the list view when I need to see the size of files and folders or to locate by dates, and icon view for pictures. I like it as is. It's very easy to toggle between the 3 views.
3) Fix iSync (e.g., it is always telling me that I have a zillion contacts that are going to be deleted and a zillion contacts that are going to be added; it doesn't let me check what is going to be added/deleted; usually I can't see that it has changed more than one or two; except for that one time when it deleted all my contacts and I had to spend a few hours reconstructing them from backups).
Resolution Indenpendance for me is something that wont turn up. It relies on vectors and vectors are complete whores to work with. Apple's icons would never look the same again. Look at the vista screw up.
In terms of X11 and unix/linux stuff. I strongly doubt apple gives a shit any more. They are trying to fight with microsoft not with SUSE or Red Hat.
Improved metadata browsing may be too much of a good thing. Basing an entire filesystem explorer on parts of a file not the whole thing is slightly stupid if you look at it that way. And anyway so few people fiddle with the metadata when it comes down to it. Only professionals or people who spend to much time on the computer.
WebObjects is seperate to Mac OS X apple will update that seperatly... If ever.
Apple will concentrate on creating universal iLife like looks. Smashing vista pure crapness apart. They will fix all the rubbish in the system. Like voice recognition, handwriting recognition, universal access. They will concentrate on ease of use and on speed. Windows intergration will be better in order to support Vista's new... whatever. I doubt that many of the features will be new. They will probably update everything as close to perfection as they can and then they should have an easy Vista beater.
these are just simple tings that i want cause they would look cool:
1. new animations for minimizing and maximization
2. new options for title car rather than blue and grayish blue. without using skins and stuff.
3. more visualtions for itunes, standard.
4. multiple docks.
5. i only have 4. and they are simple improvements which i think are downloadeable 2rd party stuff, but i dont want it, i just want to see it available.. lol..
Apple will concentrate on creating universal iLife like looks. Smashing vista pure crapness apart. They will fix all the rubbish in the system. Like voice recognition, handwriting recognition, universal access. They will concentrate on ease of use and on speed. Windows intergration will be better in order to support Vista's new... whatever. I doubt that many of the features will be new. They will probably update everything as close to perfection as they can and then they should have an easy Vista beater.
Interesting post.
I have mixed feelings about it.
One the one hand, with all of the poorly thought-through things in Tiger, and the slickness of iLife, I would be happy for 10.5 to bring a consistent iLife interface to OSX in addition to just making everything better, smarter, and consistent.
That alone would be worth 150 bucks (to me.)
But then the kid in me want the New Coolness. I know this adds new problems, but I can't help myself.
But on balance, I think if Apple really and truly cleaned up the quirks in Tiger in 10.5 and gave me the iLife interface, I'll upgrade.
2. Give Spotlight a robust query interface, and in general, fix the quirky search and inconsistencies between spotlight, mail, finder, etc.
3. Put iSync back to one interface and don't require the app to be open to sync all devices
4. Real fax functionality. (e.g. custom cover pages...)
5. Tabs in iChat
6. .Mac syncing actually works (I know I went one over, but I can't help myself.)
Uninspired list, I agree. But Tiger took some serious steps backwards in some areas, and in new areas, fell way short.
Regarding the custom cover pages, this was a specific project and important one during the OS X transition at Apple but somehow its priority has continually been reduced to pave way for other issues in the print system.
I agree that it should finally see the light of day.
6. .Mac syncing actually works (I know I went one over, but I can't help myself.)
No kidding! I've had .Mac syncing issues most of the day. Browsing the Apple support site shows I'm not the only one. This feature is great when it works, but once you start depending on it it's a nightmare when it starts misbehaving.
Apple needs to give it some more love to make it more resilient and fault tolerant. At least upgrade things on the server side and provide better service notifications. Better errors would be good to, so if there's a problem it informs me rather than giving a cryptic or non-specific error.
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Originally posted by Chucker
Cue Kickaha in 5...
Hehe, I was thinking the exact same thing and scrolling to get there...
Anyway, how about getting rid of all .Mac options in the menues when you actually dont have a .mac account.
You can already do these super easy with Automator. This is exactly why Automator was created. Give it a whirl.
Can you tell me how to use Automater to add metadata?
CURSOR "STICKING"
as in, when you drag your cursor over an internet link and get the little clicky finger, the cursor remains a clicky finger even after you move the cursor off the link. Or when you get the blinky text-inputter thing, it doesn't go away, even if you drag your mouse over the dock or something.
it drives me nuts, and makes it impossible for me to try to explain things to my dad in terms of, 'when the cursor changes to X or Y, that means you are clicking the right thing'
anyone else have this trouble?
Anyway,
1) Make folders in the dock springloaded
2) Faster safari (it's not bad, but always room for improvement!)
3) Easier ways of editing meta-data sounds cool
4) Fix the bloody address book so I can answer calls over bluetooth - it doesn't work! I use the bluetooth stuff in address book every day for sending texts, but it seems half arsed. Would be nice if answering calls on my Sony Ericsson worked, and I could send long texts.
5) Something else to make me go wow, that's cool, how did I ever live without it? (a la dashboard)
OS X will evolve for many years! Leopard is another step towards a perfect OS.
1: no more gaps at the bottom of any windows, for clean edges and easier window sizing. i.e. when dock is hidden and windows are full on iMac, if bring the cursor down to the very right hand corner you cannot grab the window!
2: we all agree on this one! Consistant themes across the board, like iTunes and iPhoto.
3: Faster Safari and less slugish Mail.
4: Skypeout equivalent in iChat.
5: And some cool surprises that apple always provides!
Originally posted by Mr Beardsley
1. Cocoa Finder that rocks with better spotlight integration
2. Resolution independence
3. UTIs for file typing
4. Core data expanded to cover enterprise databases, and WebObjects brought back to using Objective-C and the Cocoa Foundation frameworks.
5. Kernel/threading improvements
Agreed. And to bring back from Openstep the ability to turn on/off window resizing on the lower left besides the default lower right position.
Originally posted by iPeon
In reading these requests one can really see how Windows came to be the mess that it is today.
Apple does a great job at designing a powerful OS with a simple UI that does not get in your way or slow you down with a gazzilion ways to do the sane thing, not perfect by any means but certainly perfect by today's standards.
Agreed.
Somewhat related, but what mode do people use in the Finder? I practically always use the column view, with occasional use of list view. The only time I use "icon" view is for picture folders and I set the thumbnails to be displayed and the sizes to be 128x128. I always have the toolbar and sidebar on, eschewing the Classic Mac OS window-per-folder methods.
Does anyone actually use the Classic-style folder windows anymore?
Originally posted by Xool
Agreed.
Somewhat related, but what mode do people use in the Finder? I practically always use the column view, with occasional use of list view. The only time I use "icon" view is for picture folders and I set the thumbnails to be displayed and the sizes to be 128x128. I always have the toolbar and sidebar on, eschewing the Classic Mac OS window-per-folder methods.
Does anyone actually use the Classic-style folder windows anymore?
I do the same. I use column view 95% of the time. That works very well for me, it's a much much, much, better "finder" than Window's explored in my opinion. Occasional I use the list view when I need to see the size of files and folders or to locate by dates, and icon view for pictures. I like it as is. It's very easy to toggle between the 3 views.
2) Speech recognition that works
3) Fix iSync (e.g., it is always telling me that I have a zillion contacts that are going to be deleted and a zillion contacts that are going to be added; it doesn't let me check what is going to be added/deleted; usually I can't see that it has changed more than one or two; except for that one time when it deleted all my contacts and I had to spend a few hours reconstructing them from backups).
4) Better integration of X11
I have a dream that Apple itself will make that happen.
I have a dream that by doing so the world will finally be freed from that Mac wanna be, spy-ware slut, virus infected crappy OS.
I have a dream!
Originally posted by mdriftmeyer
And to bring back from Openstep the ability to turn on/off window resizing on the lower left besides the default lower right position.
I love this idea, another vote from me!!
For those who have issues with Spotlight, I suggest you have a look at MoRu
More information here: macosxhints reviews MoRu
In terms of X11 and unix/linux stuff. I strongly doubt apple gives a shit any more. They are trying to fight with microsoft not with SUSE or Red Hat.
Improved metadata browsing may be too much of a good thing. Basing an entire filesystem explorer on parts of a file not the whole thing is slightly stupid if you look at it that way. And anyway so few people fiddle with the metadata when it comes down to it. Only professionals or people who spend to much time on the computer.
WebObjects is seperate to Mac OS X apple will update that seperatly... If ever.
Apple will concentrate on creating universal iLife like looks. Smashing vista pure crapness apart. They will fix all the rubbish in the system. Like voice recognition, handwriting recognition, universal access. They will concentrate on ease of use and on speed. Windows intergration will be better in order to support Vista's new... whatever. I doubt that many of the features will be new. They will probably update everything as close to perfection as they can and then they should have an easy Vista beater.
1. new animations for minimizing and maximization
2. new options for title car rather than blue and grayish blue. without using skins and stuff.
3. more visualtions for itunes, standard.
4. multiple docks.
5. i only have 4. and they are simple improvements which i think are downloadeable 2rd party stuff, but i dont want it, i just want to see it available.. lol..
Originally posted by macanoid?
I love this idea, another vote from me!!
For those who have issues with Spotlight, I suggest you have a look at MoRu
More information here: macosxhints reviews MoRu
I like MoRU. It's Spotlight in the right direction. But I only have two issues with it:
- The interface is very laggy and searches can be slow
- You can't access your smart folders from the Finder
1. A real calendar program
2. Give Spotlight a robust query interface, and in general, fix the quirky search and inconsistencies between spotlight, mail, finder, etc.
3. Put iSync back to one interface and don't require the app to be open to sync all devices
4. Real fax functionality. (e.g. custom cover pages...)
5. Tabs in iChat
6. .Mac syncing actually works (I know I went one over, but I can't help myself.)
Uninspired list, I agree. But Tiger took some serious steps backwards in some areas, and in new areas, fell way short.
Originally posted by crampy20
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Apple will concentrate on creating universal iLife like looks. Smashing vista pure crapness apart. They will fix all the rubbish in the system. Like voice recognition, handwriting recognition, universal access. They will concentrate on ease of use and on speed. Windows intergration will be better in order to support Vista's new... whatever. I doubt that many of the features will be new. They will probably update everything as close to perfection as they can and then they should have an easy Vista beater.
Interesting post.
I have mixed feelings about it.
One the one hand, with all of the poorly thought-through things in Tiger, and the slickness of iLife, I would be happy for 10.5 to bring a consistent iLife interface to OSX in addition to just making everything better, smarter, and consistent.
That alone would be worth 150 bucks (to me.)
But then the kid in me want the New Coolness. I know this adds new problems, but I can't help myself.
But on balance, I think if Apple really and truly cleaned up the quirks in Tiger in 10.5 and gave me the iLife interface, I'll upgrade.
Currently Tiger has just as much as Vista will do. Thus Apple has a better chance of making it MUCH better. Though that alone won't attract customers.
Address Book - Dont use enough to know problems
Automater - as above (more actions... der)
iCal - as above
Safari - Phising? Virii protection?
Quicktime - Not QT 8, just some system intergration update and intergration of some new format
Printers - Better network printing and HOPEFULLY the ability share a printer properly with windows without bonjour generic printing.
Dashboard - Instant start + more effects + More (useful) widgets
Spotlight - faster + better file type reading..... (there are a lot of things)
Fonts - The new Vista fonts and a better browser that actually indendifies font probelms
iSync - better, duh, more devices
Utilities - updated for whatever the bring in
Windows Intergration - Crashing thing of the past + Vista systems
Screensavers - Desktop screensaver + finally fixing flurry
FTP... - to work
Dock - ?
Security - Whatever
Expose - Fix the crapnesss
Speech - better
Ink - better
CD/DVD - new formats + finally RW
...
Originally posted by BWhaler
Great idea for a thread. to limit it to 5 things:
1. A real calendar program
2. Give Spotlight a robust query interface, and in general, fix the quirky search and inconsistencies between spotlight, mail, finder, etc.
3. Put iSync back to one interface and don't require the app to be open to sync all devices
4. Real fax functionality. (e.g. custom cover pages...)
5. Tabs in iChat
6. .Mac syncing actually works (I know I went one over, but I can't help myself.)
Uninspired list, I agree. But Tiger took some serious steps backwards in some areas, and in new areas, fell way short.
Regarding the custom cover pages, this was a specific project and important one during the OS X transition at Apple but somehow its priority has continually been reduced to pave way for other issues in the print system.
I agree that it should finally see the light of day.
Originally posted by BWhaler
6. .Mac syncing actually works (I know I went one over, but I can't help myself.)
No kidding! I've had .Mac syncing issues most of the day. Browsing the Apple support site shows I'm not the only one. This feature is great when it works, but once you start depending on it it's a nightmare when it starts misbehaving.
Apple needs to give it some more love to make it more resilient and fault tolerant. At least upgrade things on the server side and provide better service notifications. Better errors would be good to, so if there's a problem it informs me rather than giving a cryptic or non-specific error.