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A feature list for OSX 10.4...
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Re: Re: I've got a few...
Right, I like stretched resolutions, it's the non-stretched ones I don't like.
oh, and how do you know I'm an average joe??
Right, I like stretched resolutions, it's the non-stretched ones I don't like.
oh, and how do you know I'm an average joe??
one thing i noticed i wish apple would change for the next version...
i hope they add a feature that removes all hidden files if a CD/DVD is burned for windows. it's rather annoying and confusing when i burn a CD with jpg's and there are duplicate thumbs of each picture burned as well. (as well as .Trash and .DS_Store's)
so "PC mode" CD/DVD burn would be an easy feature to add...
i hope they add a feature that removes all hidden files if a CD/DVD is burned for windows. it's rather annoying and confusing when i burn a CD with jpg's and there are duplicate thumbs of each picture burned as well. (as well as .Trash and .DS_Store's)
so "PC mode" CD/DVD burn would be an easy feature to add...
1. Total stability.
2. Far more options for customizing the user interface.
3. No more problems with broken permissions.
4. Advanced self healing properties so that even the worst crash will always end with the user at the desktop.
5. Tighter security. Put both Windows and Linux to shame.
6. Better tools for developers built in. Easy to use and powerful OpenGL and Quartz Extreme tools. Built in support for more programming languages and compilers in XCode.
7. Improved user troubleshooting and system maintenance tools.
8. Peripherals should never cause the system to become unstable.
9. Bad memory should be detected automatically.
10. The user should be informed of the source of the problem and how to fix it. Professional service by a technician should be a last resort.
2. Far more options for customizing the user interface.
3. No more problems with broken permissions.
4. Advanced self healing properties so that even the worst crash will always end with the user at the desktop.
5. Tighter security. Put both Windows and Linux to shame.
6. Better tools for developers built in. Easy to use and powerful OpenGL and Quartz Extreme tools. Built in support for more programming languages and compilers in XCode.
7. Improved user troubleshooting and system maintenance tools.
8. Peripherals should never cause the system to become unstable.
9. Bad memory should be detected automatically.
10. The user should be informed of the source of the problem and how to fix it. Professional service by a technician should be a last resort.
Re: Re: Re: Re: I've got a few...
Maybe you should reread my original post. I asked what was the point of NON stretched resolutions.... Meaning the image doesn't fit the screen. I would like them to be removed.
Maybe you should reread my original post. I asked what was the point of NON stretched resolutions.... Meaning the image doesn't fit the screen. I would like them to be removed.
- i would like to see improvement on Safari's ability to print web pages. Explorer handles this way better than Safari does at the moment.
- Tabbed FINDER would be a nice addition.
- Oh...I love the Tab feature in Safari BUT would like to see the Tab's better defined. They seem to melt in the interface/browser. Perhaps the active tab would glow or something.
~e
- Tabbed FINDER would be a nice addition.
- Oh...I love the Tab feature in Safari BUT would like to see the Tab's better defined. They seem to melt in the interface/browser. Perhaps the active tab would glow or something.
~e
Thought of something else I would like - Transparency option for open folder(s)/window(s).
Edit: Fixed how I worded this. Still may not be wording it right.
Edit: Fixed how I worded this. Still may not be wording it right.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I've got a few...
Ok then, well those are useful in the area of web design, where you need to simulate square monitors. Can't dump them either. Sorry.
BTW, I was just kidding with you before. Don't take it personally. I was also being glib.
Ok then, well those are useful in the area of web design, where you need to simulate square monitors. Can't dump them either. Sorry.
BTW, I was just kidding with you before. Don't take it personally. I was also being glib.
They're also very helpful with games. I would hate to play Medal of Honor with stretched 800x600.
Heres the list
1) Better windows networking
sometimes it is very hit or miss if I can see the shared folders on my windows box or not. It would be nice for windows users to be able to see my shared folder, or be able to share individual folders, without setting up a user account for them or giving my username/password. Being able to read and write to post fat32 file systems would be nice
2) Speed
I've got a new powerbook and it still lags when typing sometimes if something is going on in the background such as importing a ppt to keynote, ripping a cd, copyig files in finder. Finder seems the worst, so a nice new cocoa finder please
3) Bugs
Why do my icon's on the menu bar keep removing themselves? sometimes its bluetooth, sometimes clock and sometimes the battery.
4) Finder
Being able to resize from any ede of the window would be nice. If a window is on the riht edge of the screen and i want to make the window bigger, it is annoying to have to drag it left then resize it.
Locking the side bar. I've lost count of the amount of times i've accidently dragged a shortcut out the finder.
Meta-data. Would be nice to have a floating transpatent window (a la the volume controls etc) that appeared when hovering over a icon (or maybe option click or other shortcut) that showed meta data such as size, file type, last edited date etc. This could possibly be shown in the bottom of the side bar, but i doubt there is room.
5) User Interface, look etc
I like the look of panther, but some professional themes from apple would be nice, such as semi shiny black onyx with smoother metal or copper instead of brushed metal for that theme. Apple could do a much better job than me anyway, and it would keep the brand image high if they were professional. Maybe 2 alternative themes and different widget colours (similar to ipod mini colours?)
Support for quicktime content/screensavers as a background image. Having images fade in and out and possibly pan would would add to the wow effect if done correctly. Although a full movie would be too distracting, a movie that slowly changed over time would be nice, with subtle changes
Being able to switch off eye candy for old machines would be nice
6) Compatibility
FreeBSD has a linux compatibility layer, why not os x? PPC Linux apps are not as wide spread as x86 but it would add options, especially for none open source linux apps such as DB2 etc.
X11/Linux apps to be more integrated a la carbon/cocoa and java apps. Make it so they use aqua look and feel by default where possible. Make it so you dont have to open X11 first. Add X11 to System Preferences pane to set the options. Add QT and Gnome libs to allow KDE/Gnome apps to work in OS X
Add DarwinPorts with a GUI as an optional install or core install. Renane it to Xports.
Improve textEdits doc format capability and mails enchange capability. Allow doc reading/writing to be system wide using frameworks in cocoa. Let preview (or textedit) to be able to open powerpoint, keynote, and excel files.
Would be nice (but unlikly) to have a basic windows emulator built in (alongside coca/carbon/java/x11) to allow legacy dos and win applications which businesses rely on and have no os x version. Would remove problem that os x doesnt have x,y,z stock control, whatever app. Would be nice to match os x look and feel too.
7) File System
May as well jump on the BeOS file system. I've not used BeOS but i hear its good. I'm reading the guys book at the moment. System wide support for file specific meta data would be nice and smart playlist style searching. Maybe use Berkely DB XML for this. Should be faster than a sql db such as MySQL
8) Dock
As mentioned, spring loaded folders would be nice. Having catagories such as used in CDE on solaris would be nice, such as having a icon for iLife and clicking on it shows iTunes, etc on a verticle dock like menu. You could have menus as default for iLife, mail/safari/addressbook/ical/ichat/ical, dvd player/quicktime, developer tool apps, utilities/system prefs, etc. It would be good to save space when you use a lot of apps, and a logical way to group suites such as Adobe CS, Macromedia Studio, the apple pro apps etc. The groups could have their own icon instead of a generic folder
9) Address Book
Allow different preferences for different groups, thus in your work group, you can default it to show work tel etc while a friends group would default as home. Its annoying having to change the default each time you add a new contact, if they are in a group that does not conform to your set default.
10) iCal
Better integration with address book, so that birthdays are imported etc. Would be nice to auto show the date on the icon without having to open iCal. Showing on the icon that an event is due, such as someones birthday, or you have a meeting today.
11) iChat
support for yahoo/jabba/MSN please...ok last is unlikely, but sadly everyone at university uses it. Tabbed windows would be nice. Offline messages, voice/video mail would be nice (to mac only users at present i guess as wont be supported in aol im) If someone tries to send a message and iChat isnt open, it would be nice to warm me discreetly and allow option to open iChat and reply.
12) Safari
less crashes with java would be nice. Option to make safari automatically pretend to be x86/IE if a site insists on using it. Showing a likes url in the address bar when hovering over it, so you don't have to activate the status bar. Add other options/sherlock channels to the search bar a la Opera
13) Sherlock
Open it when a sherlock search is made from Safari. Faster speed, maybe using webcore. Follow user interface guidelines, in that the search bar should be a rounded text field and not a square one with a ugly green icon.
14) iTunes
Allow songs to have more than one album/default artwork, so that if I import a greatest hits or mix cd it can tell i have it already and ask if you want to associate this album with the song that currently exists in another album. This avoids duplication or having holes in albums. An alias could be added to the new album to point to the song so that in browse mode you get to see the song. When adding/changing tag info, allow changes on per album level for album specific tags such as name, genre etc. When typing album name, only show albums for that artist as you type, and same with artist name. Allow the long silence on songs to be removed when ecoding songs with hidden tracks.
15) Quicktime
Abouttime full screen was allowed for free.
16) Terminal
show colour coding for file and directories by default, or allow it to be easily added.
17) Xcode
Better java support - code complete, interface builder for swing etc
18) Java
Java 1.5 please
19) apple/tab thingy
Allow up/down arrow to go through windows of that application, using preview in icon and document name
20) Quartz3D
some form of support for auto-stereoscopic displays would be nice (my research area at university), with 3D icons, widgets etc..though this isn't very likely.
thats all i can think of at the moment
1) Better windows networking
sometimes it is very hit or miss if I can see the shared folders on my windows box or not. It would be nice for windows users to be able to see my shared folder, or be able to share individual folders, without setting up a user account for them or giving my username/password. Being able to read and write to post fat32 file systems would be nice
2) Speed
I've got a new powerbook and it still lags when typing sometimes if something is going on in the background such as importing a ppt to keynote, ripping a cd, copyig files in finder. Finder seems the worst, so a nice new cocoa finder please
3) Bugs
Why do my icon's on the menu bar keep removing themselves? sometimes its bluetooth, sometimes clock and sometimes the battery.
4) Finder
Being able to resize from any ede of the window would be nice. If a window is on the riht edge of the screen and i want to make the window bigger, it is annoying to have to drag it left then resize it.
Locking the side bar. I've lost count of the amount of times i've accidently dragged a shortcut out the finder.
Meta-data. Would be nice to have a floating transpatent window (a la the volume controls etc) that appeared when hovering over a icon (or maybe option click or other shortcut) that showed meta data such as size, file type, last edited date etc. This could possibly be shown in the bottom of the side bar, but i doubt there is room.
5) User Interface, look etc
I like the look of panther, but some professional themes from apple would be nice, such as semi shiny black onyx with smoother metal or copper instead of brushed metal for that theme. Apple could do a much better job than me anyway, and it would keep the brand image high if they were professional. Maybe 2 alternative themes and different widget colours (similar to ipod mini colours?)
Support for quicktime content/screensavers as a background image. Having images fade in and out and possibly pan would would add to the wow effect if done correctly. Although a full movie would be too distracting, a movie that slowly changed over time would be nice, with subtle changes
Being able to switch off eye candy for old machines would be nice
6) Compatibility
FreeBSD has a linux compatibility layer, why not os x? PPC Linux apps are not as wide spread as x86 but it would add options, especially for none open source linux apps such as DB2 etc.
X11/Linux apps to be more integrated a la carbon/cocoa and java apps. Make it so they use aqua look and feel by default where possible. Make it so you dont have to open X11 first. Add X11 to System Preferences pane to set the options. Add QT and Gnome libs to allow KDE/Gnome apps to work in OS X
Add DarwinPorts with a GUI as an optional install or core install. Renane it to Xports.
Improve textEdits doc format capability and mails enchange capability. Allow doc reading/writing to be system wide using frameworks in cocoa. Let preview (or textedit) to be able to open powerpoint, keynote, and excel files.
Would be nice (but unlikly) to have a basic windows emulator built in (alongside coca/carbon/java/x11) to allow legacy dos and win applications which businesses rely on and have no os x version. Would remove problem that os x doesnt have x,y,z stock control, whatever app. Would be nice to match os x look and feel too.
7) File System
May as well jump on the BeOS file system. I've not used BeOS but i hear its good. I'm reading the guys book at the moment. System wide support for file specific meta data would be nice and smart playlist style searching. Maybe use Berkely DB XML for this. Should be faster than a sql db such as MySQL
8) Dock
As mentioned, spring loaded folders would be nice. Having catagories such as used in CDE on solaris would be nice, such as having a icon for iLife and clicking on it shows iTunes, etc on a verticle dock like menu. You could have menus as default for iLife, mail/safari/addressbook/ical/ichat/ical, dvd player/quicktime, developer tool apps, utilities/system prefs, etc. It would be good to save space when you use a lot of apps, and a logical way to group suites such as Adobe CS, Macromedia Studio, the apple pro apps etc. The groups could have their own icon instead of a generic folder
9) Address Book
Allow different preferences for different groups, thus in your work group, you can default it to show work tel etc while a friends group would default as home. Its annoying having to change the default each time you add a new contact, if they are in a group that does not conform to your set default.
10) iCal
Better integration with address book, so that birthdays are imported etc. Would be nice to auto show the date on the icon without having to open iCal. Showing on the icon that an event is due, such as someones birthday, or you have a meeting today.
11) iChat
support for yahoo/jabba/MSN please...ok last is unlikely, but sadly everyone at university uses it. Tabbed windows would be nice. Offline messages, voice/video mail would be nice (to mac only users at present i guess as wont be supported in aol im) If someone tries to send a message and iChat isnt open, it would be nice to warm me discreetly and allow option to open iChat and reply.
12) Safari
less crashes with java would be nice. Option to make safari automatically pretend to be x86/IE if a site insists on using it. Showing a likes url in the address bar when hovering over it, so you don't have to activate the status bar. Add other options/sherlock channels to the search bar a la Opera
13) Sherlock
Open it when a sherlock search is made from Safari. Faster speed, maybe using webcore. Follow user interface guidelines, in that the search bar should be a rounded text field and not a square one with a ugly green icon.
14) iTunes
Allow songs to have more than one album/default artwork, so that if I import a greatest hits or mix cd it can tell i have it already and ask if you want to associate this album with the song that currently exists in another album. This avoids duplication or having holes in albums. An alias could be added to the new album to point to the song so that in browse mode you get to see the song. When adding/changing tag info, allow changes on per album level for album specific tags such as name, genre etc. When typing album name, only show albums for that artist as you type, and same with artist name. Allow the long silence on songs to be removed when ecoding songs with hidden tracks.
15) Quicktime
Abouttime full screen was allowed for free.
16) Terminal
show colour coding for file and directories by default, or allow it to be easily added.
17) Xcode
Better java support - code complete, interface builder for swing etc
18) Java
Java 1.5 please
19) apple/tab thingy
Allow up/down arrow to go through windows of that application, using preview in icon and document name
20) Quartz3D
some form of support for auto-stereoscopic displays would be nice (my research area at university), with 3D icons, widgets etc..though this isn't very likely.
thats all i can think of at the moment
I would really hope that window focus remains to require a click. Otherwise, you'd be switching apps when you didn't want to when accessing palettes etc - HOW ANNOYING WOULD THAT BE!! (Plus clicking the mouse button is hardly a difficult or time-consuming thing to do).
Purple Aqua? Just have a couple more options in addition to Blue and Graphite. My pet peeve with Graphite mode is that not everything changes from Blue (e.g. Finder/iTunes source lists, Safari menu bar buttons, selecting things SOMETIMES, etc). And a mixture of graphite and blue mode is horrible.
Windows resizing - get it sorted speed-wise. It must be bad coding.
Safari tabs - allow them to be dragged to the order your want them to be. I like their appearance though. Hope we don't get a sidebar in it though - that would be horrible and waste space. Oh, and I don't want Safari to be unresponsive for 5 minutes when trying to load ign.com.
iChat - MSN support but I know it won't happen. BTW when someone sends me a message and iChat isn't open, it opens automatically for me.
Finder - not sure tabs are necessary but would be a nice little addition.
TextEdit - a proper toolbar with custom options. Default stuff could include easy access to font and colour panels.
LESS DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN CARBON AND COCOA APPS! Half the things still don't work properly in carbon apps. How is the average consumer supposed to know what the difference is between a carbon or cocoa app or if they exist in the first place?! And make QuickTime Player dock-aware!!!
Make Finder and QuickTime player and iTunes Cocoa (or sort out point above). Also it would be nice for iTunes menu options to work dynamically in real-time.
Purple Aqua? Just have a couple more options in addition to Blue and Graphite. My pet peeve with Graphite mode is that not everything changes from Blue (e.g. Finder/iTunes source lists, Safari menu bar buttons, selecting things SOMETIMES, etc). And a mixture of graphite and blue mode is horrible.
Windows resizing - get it sorted speed-wise. It must be bad coding.
Safari tabs - allow them to be dragged to the order your want them to be. I like their appearance though. Hope we don't get a sidebar in it though - that would be horrible and waste space. Oh, and I don't want Safari to be unresponsive for 5 minutes when trying to load ign.com.
iChat - MSN support but I know it won't happen. BTW when someone sends me a message and iChat isn't open, it opens automatically for me.
Finder - not sure tabs are necessary but would be a nice little addition.
TextEdit - a proper toolbar with custom options. Default stuff could include easy access to font and colour panels.
LESS DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN CARBON AND COCOA APPS! Half the things still don't work properly in carbon apps. How is the average consumer supposed to know what the difference is between a carbon or cocoa app or if they exist in the first place?! And make QuickTime Player dock-aware!!!
Make Finder and QuickTime player and iTunes Cocoa (or sort out point above). Also it would be nice for iTunes menu options to work dynamically in real-time.
I ask for only 2 things:
1. make the user interface either smaller or more customizable. its just too big and takes up way too many pixels. with x I have to use 1 or 2 resolutions higher than 9 to get the same look. I think 1024x768 on osx looks like 640x480 on 9. make the interface smaller, we are not all blind!@#!@#!@# I have to run my 19" at 1920x1440 just to get all that pixel hogging out of my face.
2. more stable
1. make the user interface either smaller or more customizable. its just too big and takes up way too many pixels. with x I have to use 1 or 2 resolutions higher than 9 to get the same look. I think 1024x768 on osx looks like 640x480 on 9. make the interface smaller, we are not all blind!@#!@#!@# I have to run my 19" at 1920x1440 just to get all that pixel hogging out of my face.
2. more stable
It's not quite as bad as Windows XP. I switch to classic mode on that for the same reason.blue&whiteman said:
This has always bothered me...
A pet peeve of mine is that if I am in one app and I click on an app behind the current app to bring the second app to the front some of the windows associated with that app stay behind.
In this shot I was in Mail and clicked on Safari to bring it to the front, but the Downloads window is still behind Mail. That just annoys me. I want the WHOLE APP brought to the front, not just the window I click on...
A pet peeve of mine is that if I am in one app and I click on an app behind the current app to bring the second app to the front some of the windows associated with that app stay behind.
In this shot I was in Mail and clicked on Safari to bring it to the front, but the Downloads window is still behind Mail. That just annoys me. I want the WHOLE APP brought to the front, not just the window I click on...
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dstorey - I totally agree with your speed point - I've also noticed that (12" G4). Loads of other great ideas here, I think my main requests have been made pretty well known. I think the spacing and size issues would be the one thing, if fixed, that could make my Mac experience better 
Oh and the Finder refresh thing! And the saving of network passwords.. and... an....
shoez
Oh and the Finder refresh thing! And the saving of network passwords.. and... an....
shoez
iTUNES - genre's
iTunes:
It would be nice to have the ability of assigning more than one genre to a peticular song. Then when you sort, they will show up in any of those genre's. There are some songs that can fit into more an 1,2 or 3 genres.
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iTunes:
It would be nice to have the ability of assigning more than one genre to a peticular song. Then when you sort, they will show up in any of those genre's. There are some songs that can fit into more an 1,2 or 3 genres.
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I want it to be senselessly customizable, like Windows, where you click on the part you want to change. Maybe you could give each button its own color. Maybe even a theming program designed like that. So basically, just really really customizable. Other than that, the more speed, the better.
DVDSP said:
If you cmd-option-click in the Dock it works like OS9. They were called "Panes" and the God of UI looked upon Panes and said they were good.
Portable user accounts
I want to be able to take my iBook with me, change stuff (files, Mozilla settings, whatever) and come home and have them reflected on my PowerMac.
I don't want to pay for Server for this (which only works on the LAN anyhow).
I don't want to pay for .Mac for this - I've got a bleedin' modem connection and a fast ethernet LAN.
Basically, iSync for homedirs. Home on iPod would sort of work, but I don't want to have to bring the iPod just for this.
I want to be able to take my iBook with me, change stuff (files, Mozilla settings, whatever) and come home and have them reflected on my PowerMac.
I don't want to pay for Server for this (which only works on the LAN anyhow).
I don't want to pay for .Mac for this - I've got a bleedin' modem connection and a fast ethernet LAN.
Basically, iSync for homedirs. Home on iPod would sort of work, but I don't want to have to bring the iPod just for this.