While Apple and the Darwin Group are rewriting the kernel anyway for the Intel transition, they could as well repair all the issues with signaling, threading, context switching, sp…
Personally, I would love to see 'live desktops'. Which are technically movie files which loop on your desktop. A couple of software designers have made apps like these, but are not…
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While running Windows apps natively (I use that word recklessly) is a stretch, I would love to see an implementation of wine, or something …
- a usable backup tool included for all users
- a working implementation of rsync
- more flexibility with saved searches (more complicated and/or patterns, faster searches, custom …
Resolution independent UI and the high DPI displays it enables.
Remote graphical login that doesn't suck.
FTFF
Fix Xcode. Even better, fix it, and make it open source.
Tabbed Finder as in upcoming Pathfinder 4 release.
Spotlight results available with context menus (right-clickable)
UI options for the slideshow interface
faster dashboard widget s…
Fix dock zooming. Specifically check out Google's (retracted) X project.
In the apple dock, when you move from one icon to the next, the icons move away from you. The result i…
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
FTFF?
Seriously, could you be more specific?
For those unfamiliar with the term, FTFF == Fix The F***ing Finder
Specifically I'm…
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Originally Posted by Catfish_Man
For those unfamiliar with the term, FTFF == Fix The F***ing Finder
Specifically I'm thinking of stuff like the inability to update the f…
Just as I've said since Mac OS X Public Beta was released, and I'm still waiting:
• Zooming of windows to full screen when clicking on the green expand button rather than just tog…
Redesigned Finder. Creativebits recently redesigned the finder, and I think it looks really nice in unified style (and some of the features like the saved clipboards and recent sea…
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• A full-featured Cocoa word processor that can perfectly render and save MS Word files after Microsoft switches to less-proprietary XML-b…
How bout finally being able to remember LEAP networks....? For the love of GOD...
And make it so putting my PB to sleep doesn't hang the WindowsGUI / Bluetooth service when I wak…
First, I'm with all the folks who want a standardized GUI for all of the operating system itself and all the Apple apps that come on the same disk.
My other requests are probably …
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iChat. I want to see MSN support for the new iChat, and also tabbed conversation windows like Adium.
That would be nice. But if they do th…
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Originally Posted by Xiaopangzi
Just as I've said since Mac OS X Public Beta was released, and I'm still waiting:
• Zooming of windows to full screen when clicking on th…
I wish Apple would pick one GUI-style and stick with it. We have Aqua, Metal, iTunes Metal, and Widget-style. While on the subject why not include a theming utility as part of th…
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Why oh why doesn't MS realese a good Messenger for Mac?
Because MS can't release a good anything for any platform
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I wish Apple would pick one GUI-style and stick with it. We have Aqua, Metal, iTunes Metal, and Widget-style. While on the subject why not incl…
I think my main request would be the GUI. Apple NEEDS to keep their GUI consistant. It's absolutely ridiculous. OS X 10 through 10.2 were more consistant. 10.3 they 'started' to sh…
FTFF and keep the GUI consistant! And I want the ability to press a button and turn off the monitor/LCD or whatever, seeing as most Macs don't allow you to turn off the monitor sep…