what do you want in 10.3?

[cesar]

hey, what do you can to be included in 10.3??

any Idea if the release date of the new version of appleworks 7? I would like that apple also releases some "iOffice" frameworks and that the iOffice can be scriptable...

[mangoman]

Here's a quickie: When I'm viewing a window in List view, I'd like to be able to click-drag/highlight a folder or file's text and have the damn text remain highlighted for more than .6 milliseconds...

...but that's me.

[FredAkbar]

Ambitious Lemon has a page full of bugs/features that need to be fixed/added in the next OS X release. I gotta agree with some of these.

http://www.ambitiouslemon.com/hints.php?id=17

[benixau]

NTFS 5 (win2k/xp) read write capability.

i know it seems wired but i have buddies who have moved to win2k/xp from 98. in the move i copied their files to DVDs and then they loaded them back later. 98 is FAT32. i want to be able to help. one wants a mac for his next computer.

[MacBandit]

Please o Please fix the permissions corruption problem.

Give the music folder the ability to organize by artist, album, song, etc..

When you click on a file if you click on the name it goes directly to rename without giving you a chance to drag and move it if you wish.

[AmbitiousLemon]

the big request i would have (list in the list fredakbar linked) are to fix the ftp in finder problem and get springloaded folders working in the dock.

it should also be reiterated that the BeOS guy has been said to be working on a new file system for 10.3

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by AmbitiousLemon
the big request i would have (list in the list fredakbar linked) are to fix the ftp in finder problem and get springloaded folders working in the dock.

it should also be reiterated that the BeOS guy has been said to be working on a new file system for 10.3

Right along with the spring loaded folders in the dock is the ability for 1 and a half clicks to dive through folders as if you are dragging a file and using spring loaded folders.

[elmimmo]

Coherent, universal (from wherever application you are), unstealable and fast FULL keyboard access and shortcuts. That includes OS shortcuts. In other words, a Windows rip off.

[joed]

The arrows underneath open apps in the dock to be alittle more descriptive. Like, grey for hidden apps and maybe red for apps currently in use.

It would also be handy to hide apps from the dock - even if they're in the background.

[impierced]

Allow me to pull the trash out of the Dock and put it on the Desktop. In addition, speed up the OS so I don't see that spinning ball ...

That's all I want.

[nuckinfutz]

Originally posted by impierced
Allow me to pull the trash out of the Dock and put it on the Desktop. In addition, speed up the OS so I don't see that spinning ball ...

That's all I want.

I don't see why Trash on the Desktop is preferrable. In OS9 the trash can could be covered up. I ended up using Command=Del to delete most items but hey what the hell choice is always good.

I'd like to see.

1. Much better finder.

2. Expansion of the DB concept like Addressbook. Future iApps could employ this DB for certain files.

3 Dolby Digital/DTS support(Hey it's convergence!)

4. Quartz Extreme Extreme- More Accelerated items.

5. A Gaming API

[Freg3000]

I'd like to see that rumor about SUCP being opened up to third party developers in 10.3. That would be sweet. :D

[MrMacMan]

I'd like my printer to work on 'fast or Best' Currently it only prints in normal which is slow and not good quality.

Epson Stylus C42UX. There are no drivers I can find!

[Quark]

Resizing windows still has a very long way to go before it is up to par. I hope that they figure out how to get is accellerated.

The other is that the magnification of the Dock items still uses up almost all of the CPU processing power and brings everything to a crawl. Especially when your looking for one program among 100 or so by scanning all of the magnified icons as you find the one you are looking for.

Quark

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Input Sprockets for gaming...

:D

[bennetsaysargh]

i want spring loaded folders in the dock and other little things that are just cool

[macboy]

My Biggest wish.... for all my devices to work fine... 10.2.3 and 10.2.2 my devices stopped or finally worked...

I would like the instant rename for the folders like in OS 9.

Multiple User Panel Accounts like in OS 9... i know a lot of schools are waiting for that or FoolProof to come out with better security from students.

Would also like my servers to mount on startup just like in OS 9... Kind of tired of going up to connect to server all the time...

Would like to go back to old way of creating folder --> Apple N not Apple Shift N... same thing for making an alias --> Apple M not Apple L

New version of iChat would be nice...

Oh yeah... Bring back the custom Apple Menu... I like the dock but sometimes it is in the way... hiding is nice but would prefer Apple menu items....

[Phazer80s]

It would be nice to see Apple give users more OPTIONS with OS X's interface.

First off, being able to access dialog box buttons with the keyboard (instead of making users reach for the mouse each time they want to make a selection) would be great.

More simplification of the processor-hogging eye candy would be nifty. The Dock's magnification option is a good beginning… let's see more.

AND A BIGGIE (though most superficial): Apple-approved THEME changing would be ultra-spiffy, too. Less Aqua-hacking and GUI-wrecking incompatibilities would open up OS X to greater personalization. Aqua is great, but who wouldn't want more variety (as an option?) The decision to continue keeping such a tight lid on Aqua, the absent analog audio in port on many models, the damn one-button mice, :rolleyes: etc. make me wonder if Apple really wants creative people using their machines.

Of course, OS X has come a long way since it's inception. Apple's engineers have done a good job so far. Let's keep our fingers crossed they continue to adapt to to the wishes and needs of their users… which means more happiness for us… and more sales for them.

:)

[Freg3000]

Originally posted by MrMacman
I'd like my printer to work on 'fast or Best' Currently it only prints in normal which is slow and not good quality.

Epson Stylus C42UX. There are no drivers I can find!

I have the same one. It is pretty slow. :(

Did you get yours free? I got mine free after rebates from ClubMac.

[hvfsl]

I want:

?More drivers for PC hardware and older Mac hardware that there are no X drivers for. My Belkin VideoBus 2 is an example.

?Support or multi-channel sound and sound cards. Multi-channel sound has been on the PC for at least 6 years, whats taking Apple so long?

?Good support for gaming devices like joypads extra. They are meant to have this in 10.2.3, but I have not tried it yet, so I don't know how good it is.

?More customization of OS would also be good.

All of these would be good, but I think multi-channel support would be worth the upgrade price alone.

[ibookin']

I want it to turn my iBook into a 12" Power Book :D .

But seriously, I would like it to fix an issue with iChat where it ignores the proxy settings in Network Preferences.

[hvfsl]

Originally posted by Freg3000


I have the same one. It is pretty slow. :(

Did you get yours free? I got mine free after rebates from ClubMac.

Try the Gimp Print drivers. I had the same problem with my Epson 740 and the Gimp drivers have all the options that appear when I use the printer with my PC. You can get Gimp Print from Apples Mac OS X downloads section, in the Unix/Opensource category.

[yosoyjay]

Originally posted by Quark
Resizing windows still has a very long way to go before it is up to par. I hope that they figure out how to get is accellerated.

The other is that the magnification of the Dock items still uses up almost all of the CPU processing power and brings everything to a crawl. Especially when your looking for one program among 100 or so by scanning all of the magnified icons as you find the one you are looking for.

Quark

Damn straight. I ended up putting an alias to my applications folder in the dock, so I wouldn't drag down the system, but the menu with the contents takes so damn long to show up I quit using it. I wanted to turn off magnification on the dock, but it would be hard as hell to see what icons are which.

[crazzyeddie]

All you guys wanting multi-channel sound... Mac OS X already has that built in, we just dont have the hardware for it. There are some new cards coming out for 7.1 (PCI Cards) that have beta drivers for Mac. Also USB 5.1 devices are out.

Everyone complaining about speed... I have no idea what you guys are running. Sure, OS X can get slow on my Beige G3 500mhz, but no where near unusable!

Gaming API? Try OpenGL!! Apple updates it before alot of the other companies even hear of it. OpenGL is the Macs only future, why do you think it was so easy to port every single game made off of the Q3a engine? DirectX (M$) is what really screwed us over, do you want Apple to further limit the games we get by taking us away from the only cross-platform standard???

[GeeYouEye]

^ Actually, since MacDX came out, DirectX games can be ported to the Mac very quickly. Why game developers don't is beyond me.

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Does that mean if Connectix utilise MacDX, then they could offload all graphics intensive operations to the graphics card, and therefore leaving the processor free for other calculations?

Wow - now THAT would really give VPC a BIG speed boost...

(Maybe then we can play decent games....)


:D

[hvfsl]

What VPC needs is to be able to use the 3D capabilities of the Mac Graphics Cards so 3D games can be played in Windows. VPC used to have support for Voodoo 1/2 cards so 3D games could be played in windows at almost the same speed as on the PC. It would basically be like QE for VPC where the graphics are off-loaded from the cpu to the graphics card.

[AssassinOfGates]

iChat v2.0 that doesnt have away buddies listed as idle, bad transferring of files, and doesn't log out at random, faster boot times, and function key mapping to ANY folder or app from the finder like OS 9, maybe a allow modifer key to make it from any application, and less beachballs.

[gopher]

I'd like to see no more kernal panics. The kernal should keep a backup of itself in case it panics, and load the backup whenever necessary. I'd like to see video and audio chat compatible with Yahoo. I'd like to see iChat compatible with Yahoo and AOL chatrooms, and the ability to take offline messages from both systems. I'd like to see Powerprint parallel ported to Mac OS X. I'd like to see System Preferences to do the daily, weekly, and monthly logfile cleanups like Macjanitor, as well as a prebinding preference, or even a keystroke that does both at startup. I'd like to see Energy Saver have no waking problems. I'd like to see Classic come to parity with features and hardware support of booting into 9.2. I'd like to see built-in surround sound DTS support in the DVD player. iTunes should have an MP3 record option like Soundjam did. I'd like to see gimp-print and linux-printing drivers pre-installed. I'd like to see all this for the price of $10 for people who upgrade from 10.2 (but I know it will be $129.99 no matter how hard I plead). It should have full Microsoft Java support in Safari as well as DirectX support so there is no webpage that I need emulation to use. I'd like to see 800 kbyte floppies supported through USB floppy drives and built-in floppy drives (right now only 1.4 MB floppies are supported). I'd like to see CD burning be done to RAM cache like Toast, instead of occupying hard disk space for cache. I'd like to see variable bitrate MP2 encoding in iDVD 4 to allow 6 hours of video to fit on a single DVD, so people don't have to purchase DVD studio Pro to do this.
Exchange client for Mac OS X.
Easy import of Outlook addressbook.
Safari bookmarks should be an HTML file, not an XML file that is hard to edit.
Oh and visit http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback if you agree with any of these suggestions and offer them.

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by Freg3000


I have the same one. It is pretty slow. :(

Did you get yours free? I got mine free after rebates from ClubMac.

Yeah I got my new(ish) iMac from them they bundled it with this POS printer.

I can't believe they didn't even test 'fast' or 'quality' sheech, they spent 2 seconds making this driver work poorly.

Bad Code: Check
Lazyness: Check
Not able to print files with messed up error messages: Check
When you hit fast and it says there is no printer connected: Check

Perfect otherwise :eek: :mad:

[gopher]

Originally posted by MrMacman


Yeah I got my new(ish) iMac from them they bundled it with this POS printer.

I can't believe they didn't even test 'fast' or 'quality' sheech, they spent 2 seconds making this driver work poorly.

Bad Code: Check
Lazyness: Check
Not able to print files with messed up error messages: Check
When you hit fast and it says there is no printer connected: Check

Perfect otherwise :eek: :mad:
There are alternative printer drivers for Mac OS X, and sometimes more up-to-date drivers than what shipped. Check http://www.macmaps.com/printersx.html for more up to date drivers.

[mrjamin]

What i want? iChat to support .net passport, as let's face it - messenger for OS X is shiite. Some people i've spoken to are saying it will work with passport, others say otherwise.

Also, digital zoom in DVD Player would be cool too - i'm not rich enough to have a widescreen monitor and the 2.35:1 dvd's are just as good at 16:9, and 16:9 > 4:3. Someone told me this was already do-able, i couldn't find the damn option!

I do love my dock, but i say bring back the drop-down list of running apps in the top right like previous Mac OSs!

[mrjamin]

...oh yeah, and loose the glowing buttons - have you seen their processor usage?!

[WannabeSQ]

I'd like to see the Dock have more functions when you right click an application, like iTunes does. To be able to control more things down there would be nice. Also with the dock, I'd like it to show every window that is open in an application in a dock that floats above the regular dock when the mouse rolls over that application. So if I am in a web browser, and I want to go to a different window I have open, I dont have to use the window menu, I can hover over the dock, have the windows "Grow" out of it and I can select the window I want.

Id also like to see iTunes use less processor. If MP3s can be played on a pentium 166 I think any modern computer can play them without taking over the mp3 app and give beach balls.


I know its not an OS fixable issue, but Id also like to see better audio hardware, that not only supports surround, but have the OS offload mp3 decoding etc to the sound chip a la quartz extreme. That would free up the processor for more productive tasks, so playing an mp3 in the background doesn't slow down the system. And while im on the subject, how about more sub processors that divy out data to many little specialized chips. Or have the dual CPUs have their own FSB instead of sharing a non DDR bus.

[springscansing]

Trash iChat, and replace it with Adium with file transfer/sharing. Bingo, hands down, best chatting on the planet.

Also, lemme turn off all this eye candy transparency/throbbing/dropshadow madness. Please. I need to wring as much power as I can out of these ol' G4 chips. Although I won't care once the 970s are out anyway. And with quartz extreme... well... I guess its okay.

Let's see what else.. better list view. The list view in 9 looks a lot more orderly with its rows and columns that this plain white stuff.

User-creatable themes would be nifty.. but eh.

Improve Coreaudio/Coremidi. I donno how, just do it. Find some problems and get fixing.

What else... let's see... how about like a preferences option or something for like POWER FINDER which lets you use the finder like OS 9. No more telling me I don't have permissions to move stuff. I said move damnit!!

How about a Notepad revival? I loved that app, and all the 3rd party ones for X have "features" and other stuff. Who wants that. I want flippy action and typey action.

Uhh... animated icons? :-) Or do we already have that. *ponders*

A less stupid open/save dialog? Damn that thing is annoying. Think about it. It's annoying, isn't it?

Maybe have the Applications and Documents folders not be such nazis?

Uh... amazing new audio/midi internal routing stuff.

White or brushed metal, make up your mind. I say pinstripe everything. I love pinstripes! The brushed metal looks tacky though. Especially iChat, which is like Tacky central, in about a billion ways.

Basically, kill the brushed metal. The software tries to look like metal, while their hardware tries to look like white plastic. It makes no sense. Also, the iApps have brushed metal, but the iPod and iMac are white. However, the pro apps don't have brushed metal, yet the Powerbook does. SCARY, no?

FIX THE BRUSHED METAL INSANITY!

I donno, it's late. Just fix stuff and give me a few new features that are actually usable, like full spring loaded folders that allow the "click an a half" like OS 9 had. Although I guess its not needed with this new one window finder stuff.

I just don't like dropshadows. They make things feel cluttered. Ick. Turn em off!

What's the shareware app that does this? Ah I'll go check version tracker.

[WannabeSQ]

I almost forgot, Make iChat compatible with other chat clients, like msn etc.

Or just make the stupid away messages viewble from anything other than iChat. Also make long away messages text wrap so I can read the whole thing without Im'ing someone. Make away people's messages still show up when they are idle. Basically everything about away messages doesn't work well. And make it automatically reconnect if it gets disconnected.

[Dont Hurt Me]

The power pc 970, wait i got that wrong i want the powerpc 970 to come with 10.3(sorry):eek:

[blogo]

I think Apple should concentrate a bit more on the column view, because it's still too unfinished.

[neonart]

1- If the damn beach ball/lollipop has been spinning for 2 minutes. Make the OS smart enough to KILL whatever the hell is making it spin!
2- File naming and highlighting like OS9.
3- File/folder encryption.
4- Brushed steel OR white plastic look. Not both.

[GigaWire]

The ability to move massive folders without the fear of a crash.

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by GigaWire
The ability to move massive folders without the fear of a crash.

How big is massive? I have one that has 20 gigs plus and over 100,000 items and I don't get a crash when I move it or back it up or anything.

[Sol]

I would like to see a more sophisticated DVD Player application. Currently under OS X DVD Player will not allow me to play a movie in my second display and does not have good audio playback (sounds too loud and too low).

A simple audio recording application would also be welcomed. So far there is no way to do audio recording without a 3rd party application.

iChat should be adopted for file trading and game playing, like a fusion of Napster with GameRanger.

Finally I would like to see a, update for iTunes that would support MP4 ripping & playback. DVD ripping should also be supported but then it would not be iTunes any more.

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by Sol

A simple audio recording application would also be welcomed. So far there is no way to do audio recording without a 3rd party application.

Finally I would like to see a, update for iTunes that would support MP4 ripping & playback. DVD ripping should also be supported but then it would not be iTunes any more.

The whole audio thing is a current hole in the iApp group of apps. There definitely needs to be an iSound or iAudio or something.

It is not legal to rip DVDs of any kind unless you are the creator or have specific permission from the creator. The kid that originally cracked the DVD code ended up being sued. It turns out it is actually legal to break the code and rip a DVD. It is illegal to share the knowledge of how you did and even the knowledge that you did period.

[Sol]

Illegal or not I do not think there is any difference between ripping audio CDs and ripping DVDs. When Apple gives us the tools to do one it makes sense to give us the tools to do the other. We pay for the hardware, the content and the blank media so why should we not have the right to do what we like with the music and movies we own?

[saint]

I want Sherlock to work in Australia.

[saint]

General speed improvements to finder and other apps, especially iCal.

File encryption would be handy too.

and I would like Virtual PC 95 to run in classic (probably not possible, I know)

one more thing: the ability to set a scheduled startup and shutdown, like I could with OS9 Energy Saver control panel.

[neonart]

Originally posted by saint

and I would like Virtual PC 95 to run in classic (probably not possible, I know)


how about VPC to work better in X? Running an Emulator in an Emulator is kinda weird...

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by Sol
Illegal or not I do not think there is any difference between ripping audio CDs and ripping DVDs. When Apple gives us the tools to do one it makes sense to give us the tools to do the other. We pay for the hardware, the content and the blank media so why should we not have the right to do what we like with the music and movies we own?

The difference is that DVDs have a form of encryption on them and CDs don't. This is like a fence with a sign on it saying Trespassers will be Prosecuted. It is illegal to distribute the code to crack DVD encryption period.

I'm not trying to be hard nose I'm just explaining that there is no way that Apple can provide a DVD ripper as they are totally illegal.