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macOS 10.13 Wishlist: Features MacRumors Readers Hope to See in the Next Version of macOS
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because your phone is generally sitting right next to you when using the computer
for now, it's press&hold cmmd-spacebar for siri
(though i imagine you could currently activate siri via voice with some sort of dictation triggered keystroke.)
I'm sure you're aware, but as of a couple versions ago Apple changed the green button to do Full Screen, not Zoom (similar to Windows' Maximize feature, except supposedly better able to size the window according to its contents rather than taking up the whole screen regardless). I'm not sure why you say you can't get to the File menu, however--all you need to do is slam the mouse to the top of the screen where the menu bar would be, and it will appear. The dock is a bit less intuitive to get to appear, but you can still do it by slamming the mouse twice towards the bottom of the screen (or whichever side you have it on), and it will appear on the second one.
...You can actually still get the old "maximize" functionality that the green button used to provide double clicking the unused gray space at the top of the window.
I didn't know that! In the past I think I had that configured to minimize windows, so maybe I've been avoiding it entirely now. To use the old Zoom (maximize-like) functionality, you can also Alt+Click on the green button. The icon will change from the full-screen arrows to a "+" icon (as it will still be in apps that do not support full screen).
No? I'm not sure why the mere presence of a feature you don't personally use causes you so much trouble, but I like Dashboard and have ever since it was introduced in 10.4. It's a convenient way for me to check the weather (and the third-party Radar In Motion widget still works...usually), and its calculator is more convenient than finding and launching the calculator app sometimes for me. You can disable the hotkey if it bothers you that much--I actually miss the keyboards where the alternate F3 function (now Mission Control) was programmed for it.
that's pretty much what tagging helps with.
if you wanted, you could put all your files in one single folder and deal with them via tags instead of folders.. multiple tags can be applied to the same file (re: your Bob vs Dave scenario)..
or, come up with something that works for you using tagging in conjunction with folders.
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that said, i'm not saying "you're wishing for something that's already there".. i get it that you're speaking more loosely than this specific bob/dave example.
i too hope the continue moving away from a folder based structure and that the OS can become much smarter with regards to being my personal secretary.. and hopefully a lot more context aware and predictive of what i'm about to do or need access to.
No certainly not. Security would be grossly outdated. It's an 09 model, but even a fresh reinstall of el cap was noticeably less stable. The first fresh install of SL I did on it I made the mistake of updating and suffered as well. Apple actually issued one last late update to SL, but it ended up breaking more than it fixed, including Safari and App Store access, so in the interest of using the device for something, a jukebox fit, and I opted to reinstall from the SL master it shipped with, not update, and not connect it to the outside. Our home systems are on their own intranet, not physically connected to the internet, mirroring the system we use at work.
Elsewhere I'm running El Capitan on a 17" quad i7 MBP with 16GB, and sierra on a 2016 loaded iMac. Both OS's are fast enough under light admin work, though their load on the hardware becomes apparent while solid modeling, or opening big multipart assemblies with hundreds of thousands of dimensions, but more importantly than speed, the UI has become considerably less consistent, more fragmented, less efficient, and for as much as they try to do, neither are as stable or reliable as this aged old bird that does relatively so little. iTunes hasn't actually closed once on either of these new machines. Always hangs. ...I could fill a page with all the other instabilities and unreliablilities of each, but they'd all be the same stuff that fills every thread in these forums. I guess I'm waiting for a smoothed-out release of OS X again, which they probably won't take the time off to do anymore. The entire rest of my company switched to Surface products last year due to the mac lines years-outdated hardware. I alone stubbornly hold on to some sort of tortured allegiance to the Apple Mac. It's not rational, but, I'm the boss so no one gets to give me any lip about it.
All I really want is a 17" MacBook Air. w/ reinstall display. And anti glare. And a quad i7. and discrete graphics. And full MBA ports. Plus TB3. And to put Snow leopard on it. That's it!
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I would like to be able to "get info" of a file from the file menu while the file is open and not have to go to the finder, locate the file, and then get info.
Also, I long for the days of screen sharing and remote controlling another mac after being given permission in Messages.
Plus, Siri timer & stopwatch features on a Mac would be nice.
Also, I long for the days of screen sharing and remote controlling another mac after being given permission in Messages.
Plus, Siri timer & stopwatch features on a Mac would be nice.
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No problem at all! I am happy to help! I also wanted to direct you two to @Mizhou's post -- another way to get the old green button functionality back.
Finder and the filesystem are so broken they could do an entire release just on them. Finder is an embarrassment to Apple at this point. They should look to Microsoft and try to catch up with what they are doing in terms of UI. Some items from my wishlist as a user:
-While the hell can't I cut a file/folder?
-File Copy in general is a mess. Ever tried to use Finder to copy a large (I mean large) set of files? Thank God for rsync because Finder will f*ck it up every time.
-Can we get a decent file / replace dialog box? With info? That doesn't look like it was a last minute after thought?
-Can we finally move to a modern filesystem?
-It's 2017, can I finally just unplug my flash drive without having to drag it to the trash?
-Why is Finder so buggy when it comes to mapped drives? It is slow to sync changes when they are made on the host system
I'm sure we'll just get added Emojis instead...
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-While the hell can't I cut a file/folder?
-File Copy in general is a mess. Ever tried to use Finder to copy a large (I mean large) set of files? Thank God for rsync because Finder will f*ck it up every time.
-Can we get a decent file / replace dialog box? With info? That doesn't look like it was a last minute after thought?
-Can we finally move to a modern filesystem?
-It's 2017, can I finally just unplug my flash drive without having to drag it to the trash?
-Why is Finder so buggy when it comes to mapped drives? It is slow to sync changes when they are made on the host system
I'm sure we'll just get added Emojis instead...
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calculator.app and other versions of calculator in macOS (dashboard/notification center)..
..have been ousted by spotlight.
cmmd-spacebar to bring it up.. start typing numbers
it's way better (to me at least) because 1) it's easier to access and 2) there's no need for = since it's live updating and 3) you can type out more complex calculations.. like:
oh, and 4) you can edit the numbers instead of pushing AC many more times than necessary then starting over
Ok, Maps. Same features belong in OS X as iOS.
1. It's been a decade of Apple maps not being able to plot a route to more than one destination. Next to destination, I want a little plus button, to add additional destinations to the list. If I have multiple errands to run, and Apple can calculate the most efficient distance between each, then it should be able to tell me which is the most efficient order to hit all the stops in. The more stops, the bigger the time/fuel/money savings would get.
2. Also want it to, if I hit begin, download all the maps in detail of the route, so that, when I get in the car and get past the end of the road and the cell connection disappears, but the gps still knows where I am, it continues to show my location in the same map but offline, automatically, and not as a pulsating dot floating on a tron-like gray grid with no information on it. Seems like that should be some pretty common sense practical functionality.
3. Colors. Give us an option for a color scheme that has some decent contrast between the colors of the objects, on a black background, for night driving. We used to be able to invert colors to get a black background, but now there's some color scheme that becomes blue and still lights up the cabin of the car, and the location marker is the same as the tracer line making it hard to spot. Should be pretty obvious.
4. Also, take into account distances off the route to nearby gas stations. Nothing worse than driving along the interstate, needing gas, pulling off, and Apple Maps freaking out because you're off course and then dropping your loaded maps in a panic and being unable to load new ones. Happens every trip, and I have to resort to a printed atlas from 1997. Embarrassing.
1. It's been a decade of Apple maps not being able to plot a route to more than one destination. Next to destination, I want a little plus button, to add additional destinations to the list. If I have multiple errands to run, and Apple can calculate the most efficient distance between each, then it should be able to tell me which is the most efficient order to hit all the stops in. The more stops, the bigger the time/fuel/money savings would get.
2. Also want it to, if I hit begin, download all the maps in detail of the route, so that, when I get in the car and get past the end of the road and the cell connection disappears, but the gps still knows where I am, it continues to show my location in the same map but offline, automatically, and not as a pulsating dot floating on a tron-like gray grid with no information on it. Seems like that should be some pretty common sense practical functionality.
3. Colors. Give us an option for a color scheme that has some decent contrast between the colors of the objects, on a black background, for night driving. We used to be able to invert colors to get a black background, but now there's some color scheme that becomes blue and still lights up the cabin of the car, and the location marker is the same as the tracer line making it hard to spot. Should be pretty obvious.
4. Also, take into account distances off the route to nearby gas stations. Nothing worse than driving along the interstate, needing gas, pulling off, and Apple Maps freaking out because you're off course and then dropping your loaded maps in a panic and being unable to load new ones. Happens every trip, and I have to resort to a printed atlas from 1997. Embarrassing.
I'm gonna reply to this for extra visibility. This guy nailed on the head. Yes to this feature times a million.
I am surprised that the article forgets to mention forward looking technologies like inclusion of HDMI 2.0/2.1 support with 4K @ 60 Hz as well as support for various formats like mkv, h.265, dts-hdma, Dolby-Atmos. They are required for 4K movies and Apple must make a move to 4K content on their iTunes Store.
Without those, macOS is just a turd for multimedia and home theatre enthusiasts.
Without those, macOS is just a turd for multimedia and home theatre enthusiasts.
hmm.. i'm interested.
however, when you say files (with an 's' at the end), do you mean having a different file for each desired version?
because if so, that's definitely not the sweet solution..
(like, with multiple files as the versions, i could just use the doc name as the descriptor.. just like i did for the decade prior to osx versioning
or, does this suggestion work in conjunction with Versions?
(but, without the GUI, it's probably a no-go for me.. with versions UI, you can go back in time, copy an object, come back to the present, and paste that object.. all without leaving the current document or going to a file structure or opening another doc.. etc)
No, you don't have one file per version. You can have a project with multiple files in a folder, and check in all the files in that project. If you only have one file per project, then you only check in that one file, and you only have that one file as a working copy. If you want you can revert to an older version of the file.
There are some differences between git and Apples Versions. Apples Versions have a guy that is like TimeMachine backups. You don't get that kind of guy with git. Look at the screenshots on the page I linked to in my previous post. With Versions you can just have a simple timeline. You save a document, and can't add notes. When you save the next time, you have two versions of the file, and can choose go go back or forward in your history. With git you can create branches, which is often used by programmers.
You can see it on the first picture on https://www.sourcetreeapp.com in the table view under the Graph column. So you start by checking in the first version of your document. Let's call it version 1.0.
Then you make an update and check in that one. Sometimes you might want to split the versions. In the case of programming you make a branch to add a new feature, and another branch can be for bug fixes. I guess you're not a programmer, and I don't know what purpose your documents serve, but let's say they're presentations, and you create your initial presentation and save it. Then you split it so you can have a branch for the presentation for a specific audience, and you can jump back and forth between the branches. Let's say your presentation is for a new medical drug. You enter all the information in the document that are common for all your audiences. Then you make one branch for changes to the presentation intended for medical doctors, and another branch for the presentation of the drug for patients.
Later on you can also merge the two branches, so that all the changes for each branch end up in the same document. I don't know if you understand what I mean. It's hard to explain without doing a demo. You can download SourceTree and try it out yourself. It's free, so you don't lose any money, just some time to evaluate the app.
One drawback with git though is that it creates an "invisible .git folder (which contains the database for all the versions) for the "project", even if the project is just one document, which means you can't have all your documents in the same folder, because git can't create one .git file for each document then. So it's best to put each document in it's own "project" folder.
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You can do screen sharing and remote controlling in Messages. If you have a conversation going, then you can see the name of the one you're communicating with to the left in the window. Right click on the name and either select to share your screen or ask your friend/colleague to share their his/her screen. Then one of you can "see" the other persons screen. In order to control it, there's a button in the toolbar of that window, and when clicked the other part must confirm that he/she accepts to get the screen controlled.
thanks Mishou for further explanation.
branching sounds awesome and i could possibly make use of that type of functionality.
ultimately though, sourcetree seems far too full featured for what i'd need.. it seems the negative aspects (for me, i'd have to be much more explicit with controlling the file.. i'd have to do too much stuff that i'd rather avoid.. i personally find file management to be painful (i'm adhd.. so sue me )..
..would outweigh the positive (being able to locate a point in history with a note)..
for what i need, it'd be overall less work and faster to just browse the versions as the current implementation allows than to (in my case) backtrack to less automatic file mgmt times.
i can't imagine it working like apple's versions though.. that being- say i have a 20MB file.. i draw a line then save a version.. will i now have 40MB worth of data being stored..
because with Versions, only the changes are being saved.. my 20MB file is now 20MB plus a few KBs for the newly drawn line..
and i work from multiple locations/computers so keeping these file sizes low and all within the single working file is advantageous for keeping everything synced regardless of where i may be working that day.
i'm a designer using 3D modeling software daily.. (Rhino3D)
i sometimes need to go back and grab geometry in certain states or that was used at previous points in the process.
branching sounds awesome and i could possibly make use of that type of functionality.
ultimately though, sourcetree seems far too full featured for what i'd need.. it seems the negative aspects (for me, i'd have to be much more explicit with controlling the file.. i'd have to do too much stuff that i'd rather avoid.. i personally find file management to be painful (i'm adhd.. so sue me
).. ..would outweigh the positive (being able to locate a point in history with a note)..
for what i need, it'd be overall less work and faster to just browse the versions as the current implementation allows than to (in my case) backtrack to less automatic file mgmt times.
i can't imagine it working like apple's versions though.. that being- say i have a 20MB file.. i draw a line then save a version.. will i now have 40MB worth of data being stored..
because with Versions, only the changes are being saved.. my 20MB file is now 20MB plus a few KBs for the newly drawn line..
and i work from multiple locations/computers so keeping these file sizes low and all within the single working file is advantageous for keeping everything synced regardless of where i may be working that day.
no, not a programmer (though i know python but only use it for scripting other software)
i'm a designer using 3D modeling software daily.. (Rhino3D)
i sometimes need to go back and grab geometry in certain states or that was used at previous points in the process.
no, i pretty much get it other than specific details about how much data is being store and/or if there are essentially duplicated objects being store.. or if said object is only stored once then what appears in different versions is just various managements of the single object.
hmm.. yeah, more file management protocols i'd need to follow when i'm actually wanting to move away from that
Make Preview great again. The iOS tax fr parity purposes was not worth breaking so many professionals workflows. It's the same lesson the as the MacBook Pro 2016 release.
because your phone is generally sitting right next to you when using the computer
for now, it's press&hold cmmd-spacebar for siri
(though i imagine you could currently activate siri via voice with some sort of dictation triggered keystroke.)
My phone is generally next to me when I "hey Siri" into my Watch, and that seems to work fine! Also, "hey Siri" doesn't work if my phone is in my pocket or face down. As for the key command, I had to disable it right away unfortunately as it was interfering with the Adobe Creative Suite.
I hope they don´t just add "features" that only make sense if you to have a paid iCloud storage, an Apple Watch, the latest iPhone or an Apple Music subscription or having to be in a city supported by Apple maps. I would like a faster OS, the Snow Leopard stacks UI, the ability to move folder or stacks to any part of the dock, a reliable Time Machine software, a Photos App that you can use with a folder and not a library and great wallpapers.
heh, the reason i said that is because when reading the post, i told my mac "hey siri" and my phone lit up
so, in my case at least, pretty sure there's a conflict between hey_siri_ing both my mac & phone.
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the shortcut is changeable/customizable.. system prefs-> Siri-> keyboard shortcut
Apple Maps was released in fall 2012, so it definitely hasn't been a decade and has barely been five years.
That being said, if I actually want to get to my destination, I'll look for the address in Google Maps (which is what Apple used before for their own Maps app)--and I guess you could be talking about the old Maps app instead since it was also the case when they used Google. Even Google's own iOS app just added that feature last summer (despite the web version supporting it for...ever? or at least a long time).
Oh yeah. That was google maps back in 07 wasn't it, before the Eric Schmidt drama. Though regardless of how many years it's been or whose actual maps its looking at (TomTom at some point?), the app should be able to do those things. I'm pretty sure my crummy $90 dashmounted gps from 2004 had the ability.
Don´t ask for APFS please. Do you really trust Apple engineers to replace your file system? haven't we had enough bricked devices?
Yes, native Blu-ray support would be nice, and not only for playback but for recording as well, even if commercial disc copying was disabled. Writeable BD discs hold a crapton of data, and right now the only access to that on the Mac platform is thru third-party software. And let's go straight to 4k BD support, shall we. So many of us have 4k recordings now that we'd like to copy, edit, record and archive, etc.
The old "bag of hurt" excuse is worn out by now.
I hate snapping with a vengance. This is one of the things that frustrated the hell out of me with windows. It reeks of 'nanny knows best' when it comes to positioning application windows on the screen. By all means add it but let me turn it off.
I use two 4K screens at the moment (iMac + 4K Dell) and this feature is about the last thing I want to be added.
OSX is really very good as it is. All I want at the mo is that they don’t ruin the interface, (any further), and that they don’t go a step further in dumbing down and removing features.
I don't want to open the new disk utility and find that I have to use cryptic terminal commands to partition a disk.
I don't want to open the new disk utility and find that I have to use cryptic terminal commands to partition a disk.
No more iTunes, instead give us a music app/store, an App Store and TV/movies, all separate and greatly improved with syncing capability. Either that or give us one significantly overhauled application and get rid of the iTunes name. Possible new name: Apple Media.