I tend to take the one desktop/space but six large attached monitors approach. Pallettes on one monitor, Finder windows on another, browser windows on another, media on the HDTV and so on. I used to flip spaces, but got tired of things shifting around. That was at work with a three monitor setup. So, I attached six to the Mac at home and its pretty much stayed that way.
I think holding the option key or something would shrink all windows at once into little floating toolbars. Of course you had to move them vertically slightly so the title bars don't overlap but it worked ok back when apps had different windows for different purposes (not one window with multiple panes) and they would have different positions anyway.
Careful now- Apple might not catch the sarcasm and just implement this.
Then people might just go for a 4K display instead of the 5K overpriced that apple nearly has monopolized. Bad for business for apple.
So, for starters, you're only half right. Apple Silicon doesn't support running 32 bit code natively but Rosetta 2 actually supports translating 32-bit x86 instructions on Apple Silicon (WINE uses it,) so the capability is already there.
Not OP, but yes. Yes I do.
Well, as @Malus120 pointed out, nobody's here demanding that. It's a wish list. I'm not "complaining" about anything.
Again, this thread is posted in the PowerPC Mac forum of MacRumors, with the idea for us PowerPC Mac users to chime in. OP has not excluded others however.
Do you mean the way windows minimize into the dock? You can easily change that to a scale effect which is less pointy.
Popup windows were very useful when you wanted to keep specific Finder windows open on a 17" monitor without taking up too much space. Many of us now have more than one display, but they'd still be useful.
A lot of us own Early Intels as well and a few of us the more modern Intels and M1s. OP was kind of mixing it together as he knows this is the case. Which isn't something that infrequent visitors to this subforum would have any idea about.
Whoa. My wish that Rosetta 2 should run PPC software was meant as a joke. Just a joke. I should probably have made this more obvious.
Make it possible to add third party file handlers to launch services so you can double click any app and have the proper emulation or virtualization or Rosetta 1, 2, etc. environment run it. The handler examines the file to determine if it should run it since a file extension is usually not sufficient.
I didn’t know about this. Awesome! Thanks for telling me about it!
I did something similar, but for different apps that could open the same file (EPS typically). Back then there was no 'Open With', so dropping an EPS file on to a Freehand alias for instance (because Illy wouldn't open it), or dropping it onto an Acrobat Distiller alias was very helpful.
I use a Finder extension app called New File Menu. Once you install it, you can right-click in a folder and create a blank file of your choosing in that spot and optionally open it right after it's created (at which point you can paste in what's on the clipboard if you want). Not as simple as what you describe, but definitely workable. Also, it offers a bunch of different file types beyond .txt, which is pretty cool. I'm using it in Monterey on an M1 Mac and it works fine.
I really miss Dashboard. The web clippings feature was super useful, and so were many of the widgets -- at least until they neglected it for years and they all kind of faded away. By the end it was a sad snapshot of 2010 or so.