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Pixelmator Pro is one of my favourite editing apps, but it's proprietary file-format and unmanaged sidecar files, together with no adequate file manager independent of Photos means it still cannot complete with Adobe. If Apple were to acquire GraphicConverter for its Browser features then they would have the basis for a industry-leading solution.

Unfortunately, based on Photos and the push for Apple Intelligence, Apple will likely focus on the wrong features and it will be their way or the highway. They'll decide as always, they know better than the user. There is no point in all the AI stuff that Photos incorporates when its automated Collections chop the heads and feet off in portrait format images. 

 Pixelmator Pro and Photomator have had solid updates at regular periods, Apple updates its apps at a glacial pace. Sadly, I can see another great app getting destroyed.

chasm said:

Auto-resizing of columns in column view is a feature (or in this case, the lack of a feature), not a bug.

If filenames displayed in column-view are routinely truncated to the extent that similar files are indistinguishable without having to adjust column-width, then I consider that a bug. The fact that there are shortcuts to slightly relieve the monotony of having to constantly adjust column-width manually is not a solution.

I viewed the Youtube links and as expected there is nothing new there, the issue remains unfixed. TotalFinder and XFinder both provided a solution to using column-view productively, but were ultimately taken-out by SIP. Pathfinder and Forklift provide this functionality for a reason, but both are standalone file browsers so not an ideal fix. But then, I know you know this, so thanks for nothing.

chasm said:

“Allow me to hide all unwanted fonts in font-menus” — how would the machine know which fonts you don’t want at any given moment? Even Apple Intelligence (or any other AI model) wouldn’t’ be able to read your moods at any given moment, but even if UriGeller PsyOS could read your mind on something like this, it would still be a feature (or lack thereof), not a bug.

I don't need a lesson in semantics thanks. MacOS is full of bugs. Technically, the column-view issues are not bugs but incomplete features, poorly implemented. Before SIP, there were numerous third-party solutions that addressed these issues. I'm frustrated, not stupid.  

With regard to font-menus I think you're trying to be way too clever. MacOS doesn't need to 'know' which fonts I want to hide, just give me the user the option to hide all those that are not explicitly selected as visible by me. System fonts can be activated automatically without needing to permanently populate my font-menus.

And again, as you well know if you're using Ventura or Sonoma, there are more than a "handful" of fonts that cannot be uninstalled. Even fonts that a couple of years could be 'turned-off', no longer can. 

I would be willing to pay for the OS if they'd just fix the bugs in Finder that send me back to the root-level every time I delete an item in column-view, or provide auto-resizing of columns in column-view, or allow me to hide all unwanted fonts in font-menus.

No new features please, just fix the bloody bugs.

I would suggest those that seek integration without the costly Fantastical subscription, check out Calendar 365 II. The menubar calendar and iPhone app are particularly effective and aesthetically balanced.