Macworld editors and contributors Rob Griffiths, Christopher Breen, Jason Snell, Jim Dalrymple and Philip Michaels have published a list of 23 things they’d like to see in Apple’s next-gen Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard:
The list:
• Improvements to Spotlight
• Built-in launcher
• Finder fixes
• Windows compatibility and integration…
• …Or virtualization
• Virtual desktops
• True media center
• File and account security improvements
• Restore more
• Smart locations
• Smart users
• Improve VoiceOver
• Expand Disk Utility’s powers
• More from Mail
• Smart syncing
• Keeping tabs with iChat
• Automator II
• More Automator updates
• Capturing moving pictures
• Bring back Sherlock
• Pop-up innovations
• Tabbed Terminal
• PowerPC or Intel or both?
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy” for the heads up.]
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I call for back rubs and occasional whispering in my ear.
More security checks, less suspectability to trojans and better user privacy would be nice
Outgoing firewall please!!
Enter the code Apple. Even Vista has better security.
What about an official uninstaller. Right now this is a serious gap.
I would love to see better Exchange integration in Mail, iCal, Address Book and iSync. I use a Mac in an Exchange environment at my work. Groupcal and AddressX work well, but I would love to see full integration available.
Oh for crying out loud, Mesh, will you drop it already? Your unceasing paranoia about something that hasn’t even happened yet is really getting on my nerves. If you’re so terrified about your security, why don’t you switch to a more secure platform? (Oh, right.)
I’d say towels. Especially after being in the sauna with my PowerBook…
What is suspectability?
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Funny these lists all come out a month before the WWDC. For Apple to integrate what the customer wants, they need to see these type of lists a year or so earlier. The storyboard comes first, not last. I think we are in for a surprise.
Enhanced Copy-and-Paste functionality (ala add-ons)
Window resizing enhancement
Half of those don’t even mean anything, let alone purport to be new features.
I second that Shieldzee
I’d like to see a contextual menu in the Finder to easily move/copy files from one location to another. Mail has it done quite nicely: “move to” and “copy to”. Right now the only contextual “move” function available in the Finder is “move to trash”. Why not just call it “delete” like it is in Mail or other parts of the Finder (e.g. the delete toolbar option)?
Copying/moving files in the current Finder is inefficient a lot of the time (open up two windows side by side, or spring loaded folders, or copy and then paste, back and forth or use the sidebar etc).
Banish the spinning psychedellic pizza/beachball thingy for good!
Mac users spend decades bitching about Windows’ MDI (Multiple Document Interface) only to become (unwittingly) obsessed with it in the form of tabbed this and tabbed that.
Heretics.
Is there really any reason for me to bother getting 10.4 for my old iBook at the moment, with 10.5 a mere 6 months away? Apple should really drop the price on 10.4 in the interim.
I hate upgrade dilemmas.
My favorite OS X tip that addresses #2 – built in launcher – is to drag your “Applications” folder to the Dock just to the left of the trash can.
(You may also do this with any folder or document you regularly access).
Best is that if you hold down the left mouse button, it will display a list of the applications in the folder…very nice…better than the “Start” menu.
While these wouldn’t be part of the Leopard update I would love to see gapless importing in iTunes. Also disc-at-once (DAO) capabilities.
Me, I agree, anyone who doesn’t have folders in their Dock is missing half the point of the dock.
Built-in Launcher? You mean like the Dock? Or are they talking about LaunchBar which is nice but I’m not paying money for that stuff. All these shareware apps that people write; some of them are great! But I’m not paying money for them. You’re not going to get rich off charging me money for things like Flip4Mac and LaunchBar. I’ll be inconvenienced before forking over hundreds of dollars on software that after 22 years of GUI computing should be built-in.
I guess that means we lose developers but seriously, get together start a company that makes one product that offers all this stuff in one $50 package and I’ll buy it. It’s called bundling. It works. Who would buy one disk utility that only checks for errors and does not defrag?
I wish that you could view all iTunes music downloaded from all users on that computer, that way you don’t have to download certain songs more than once. If they had tabs on the left side that said My Music, and All Music, that would be sweet!
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My favorite OS X tip that addresses #2 – built in launcher – is to drag your “Applications” folder to the Dock just to the left of the trash can.
(You may also do this with any folder or document you regularly access).
Best is that if you hold down the left mouse button, it will display a list of the applications in the folder…very nice…better than the “Start” menu.
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You can merely “click and hold” on any item to access the the submenu for any Dock item. If the item is a folder, it will show the contents and allow you to navigate its contents.
“Click and hold” for about a second is the way to access the submenu for any Dock item but holding control key when clicking can bypass the intention 1 second delay.
No Launcher needed folks.
That’s what separate user accounts are for.
Each account has its own library.
Quicksilver is still a faster launcher than putting your App folder in the dock.
It’s free too.
I second the imrpovement to iTunes mentioned by Eric. I have multiple users on my family computer and the music is split between two of them. Making a second copy of all the files is possible because it’s an iMac with a 250GB HD but I’d rather not take up another 60GB on music. It seems silly that you can share your music with a computer downstairs but not with another user on your mac.
Oh for crying out loud, Mesh, will you drop it already? Your unceasing paranoia about something that hasn’t even happened yet is really getting on my nerves. If you’re so terrified about your security, why don’t you switch to a more secure platform? (Oh, right.)
And how did you think Mac OS X security got so good to begin with?
That’s right, 21 year Mac using paranoids like me that keep yapping to improve things and all you can do is whine?
You should be licking my feet in graditude.
I’d like a Static Mesh reduncancy filter.