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What do you want to see in 10.5 (Leopard)?

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SirSkiner
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I'd like to see some serious accesibility improvements in MacOSX. This is a great lack for people with disabilities. Espacially lack of software like onscreen keyboard is quite a poor effort from mac devs.

 

There is some application, like keyboard viewer wich can emulate keyboard and helps typing with mouse only, but only partially... I have no idea how to cooperate this and stickykeys function so man can use modifier keys functions with this tool...

Colonel
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I want to see the network bug fixed. the one that occurs when you are connected to a network computer, then you turn the networked computer off, then you try to disconnect from it and you just keep getting the stupid pinwheel thing. AARGGH! :) I hate that bug.

Aurora
Aurora
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Having just read the "Leopard 10.5 revealed" thread, I gotta put a few things in here:

 

Spotlight searches EVERYTHING on all disks specified. When I'm patching device drivers, it's so annoying to enter an argument in the Finder window and not have it search recursively. But if they're really going to rewrite search functionality, then more power to 'em.

 

Instead of modifying the dock bounce, get rid of it altogether. It doesn't fit with the rest of the aesthetic that OS X tries to display, the cool sheen that just makes you drool, y'know. <tangent>I love brushed metal and don't mind the mixed look of metal/plastic</tangent>. Instead of the bounce, have an inactive application icon display semi-transparent and when activated have it pulse its alpha channel. This is more graphics-instensive, I know, but it wouldn't be that much. Or maybe have a thin progress bar along the bottom of the app icon to show how much it's loaded into memory, and when fully loaded, the icon is highlighted.

 

I like the idea of editing metadata too, that would simplify search and database capabilities very much.

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RobNyc
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a Menu with all the progs wouldnt hurt would it?

 

osx themeable . faster . make it use less ram . and rule the world

 

have options to run Linux and then have no need to run Linux seperate :) i guess

 

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cwestpha
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Here is what I think is going to be in 10.5

 

* Spotlight intigration into everything.

* a semi-revamped finder that "borrows" featres from Path Finder like how Apple "came up with" Dashboard.

* Windows App support through Bootcamp like how OS 9 app support was in OS X. Think about it, Bootcamp is an alpha and being able to boot the "emulated" OS on new hardware is always the first step.

* Actual Intel compilers in the included Xcode. Hard to belive that all of the intel "native" apps are just using a version of GCC 4 that wasnt designed to spit out code optimized for the processors Apple would be using.

* Safari 3.0 which will include podcast, vidcasting, and photocasting intigration fully with the Apple iLife suite. Full Acid 2 complaince. Ability to get more fine grain RSS view controls. Expect a few features taking from Saft and the like software as they do with each new release.

 

 

 

My theiory is 10.5 is going to mostly be a refinement of 10.4 with a few intel specific optimization and features. Apple is working so hard on moving their line to Intel that most of their software efforts are being spent on Xcode (to help with better compilers and more developer freindly features), make everything in their packages native, and getting ready for the new features of the Core platform.

 

Anyways here I think is how Apple will run Windows Apps under OS X:

Intel Core chips (the real ones, not what is curently included in laptops) will be 64-bit and support hardware based virtulization. Through Boot Camp you can already load Windows onto its own partition and run it (think how Apple started Classic compatability). Using the new virtulization hardware suport you can have OS X running in the foreground while having some core componants of Windows running in the background. Using the hardware support of graphics rendering in both Vista and OS X, since each window is infact its own 3D workspace executing on the graphics card one can do a neat trick of "overlaying" the Windows Application running on top of the OS X session. You can then send hardware commands to the hardware based virtulizer and based on a set of rules you can dictate when and what goes to which session (the windows app or OS X). Infact in theiory OS X could highjack the rendering of the Windows application and modify it to, as an example, replace the MS window controls with Apple's window controls (the red, yellow, green dots) and window style. This could present a security risk for windows, but since this would be one way code modification it couldnt affect OS X.

A Nonny Moose
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*note--numbered for clarity in response*

 

1. a semi-revamped finder that "borrows" featres from Path Finder like how Apple "came up with" Dashboard.

 

2. Windows App support through Bootcamp like how OS 9 app support was in OS X. Think about it, Bootcamp is an alpha and being able to boot the "emulated" OS on new hardware is always the first step.

 

3. Actual Intel compilers in the included Xcode. Hard to belive that all of the intel "native" apps are just using a version of GCC 4 that wasnt designed to spit out code optimized for the processors Apple would be using.

 

4. Safari 3.0 which will include podcast, vidcasting, and photocasting intigration fully with the Apple iLife suite. Full Acid 2 complaince. Ability to get more fine grain RSS view controls. Expect a few features taking from Saft and the like software as they do with each new release.

 

 

1. Apple did come up with widgets waaaaaaay back with the Classic Mac era. They stopped it, then Konfabulator picked it up. Then Apple brought the widget idea back as Dashboard and Konfab was bought out by Yahell.

 

2. I'd rather see MS utilize Boot Camp with the next version of Virtual PC, but that's just me.

 

3. I'd like Intel optimizers too. Seeing as how applications are faster under XCode's Intel optimization, imagine what is to come...

 

4. iTunes handles Podcasting already. Why should Apple waste time on another Apple app to do the exact same thing? It would be like coming out with five flavors of Windows Vista or something, but I digress. In terms of adding features from 3rd parties, yeah, it'll most likely happen, but then the 3rd parties will make their wares even better.

Darwinian Dude
Darwinian Dude
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For anyone who (for some reason) misses the Start menu, OS X has something better.

 

Go into your hard disk, and drag your applications folder onto the dock. (on the right of the line, near the trash (NEAR, not IN! :P )

 

Then if you right-click (control-click for anyone with only one button) on this folder, there is your applications menu, with subfolders.

 

You can have as many of these as you like. Change the icon on folders first, so they look nicer. (to chance icon, GetInfo on a file or folder with COMMAND+I then if you click on the icon in the upper left of the get info window you can use Edit menu COPY PASTE in menus or Command C, V etc between two different get info windows to copy icons from elsewhere. I love being able to do this!!!)

 

I have folders in the dock like this for all less commonly used apps. I have a pop up for audio apps, one for other web browsers, two different ones for action games or puzzle type games, etc.

 

If you want to make a custom list, simply create Folders somewhere, ie in "yourhomefolder/Dock Folders" doesn't matter where really. Then fill these with Aliases to whatever applications you want in the dock, and drag these folders to the dock.

 

'Fruit Menu' is a very cool app too, but doesn't run on intel macs yet.

 

- Rowan

TheWakeUpCall
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After previously using Windows, I can say the most annoying thing about macs ever, is the fact that to view different types of videos i have to have 4 different players installed, and somethings like DIVX I can't play full screen without making it really joulty. So just out of the box support for every known video type, that would be so much better.

bluedragon1971
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After previously using Windows, I can say the most annoying thing about macs ever, is the fact that to view different types of videos i have to have 4 different players installed, and somethings like DIVX I can't play full screen without making it really joulty. So just out of the box support for every known video type, that would be so much better.

 

DivX works just fine full screen for me, and once the Universal version of Flip4Mac's playback component is released (free download from Microsoft), you will have pretty much all of the common video types covered except RealMedia. So, tell me, how did you play QuickTime, DivX, and RealMedia out of the box in one player on Windows?

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derlordhelmchen
derlordhelmchen
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My first and the importand wish is, that I can work with 2 Displays on MACOS X with my ATI X800 XT PE (ASUS). THX

 

My second wish is that MACOS support my Soundcard (X-FI from Creative)

 

And my last Wish is that MACOS support my TV-Card (Hauppauge 150MCE)

 

Thats all, if MACOS can do this I would be the happies man of the world. THX

Jiggyda
Jiggyda
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-Work closer with adobe and other Companys to speed up applications.

See Flash animations/websites how slow they are!

Its a shame.

 

- A usable dock version(taskbar like features) becuase the one they have is a joke.

- Uninstall engine

- Faster gui

- Better compartible brower(developing for safari&co sux)

 

 

BTW.: its a shame that apple dont worked closer with adobe and other important companys to release unibinary apps.

Greenwizard88
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Hi!

 

- Independent Window Management

One thing I experienced yesterday was that, since the menu bar is linked with the application, you can’t control the window, except move it. It would be great to have the ability to control the window independent of its working status. For instance, I was moving 30.000 e-mails from one IMAP mailbox to another IMAP mailbox on the same server and same account, but until Mail had finished, all I could do was to drag the window out of the desktop, since I couldn’t minimize it. And I believe this feature IS there, as Mac OS is X Window based. X Window need to have an application environment, like Gnome, and a window manager, like Enlightenment, BlackBox, Window Maker, etc. If the application freezes, the window manager can still do whatever the window allowed when created or altered, like move, resize, minimize, but, the contents would be just frozen or a flat background. This is a great change in Mac OS Bar coding, but would be amazing.

I have this same issue with iMovie...it's a PitA and needs to be fixed. I couldn't minimize or hide the window while it was rendering something :-/

Panopticon
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What I would really like to see more than anything else is font I can read. I have been unable to use Mac OSX because the vector based anti-aliased font gives me severe eyestrain, making OSX completely unusable. Bitmapped OS 9 and earlier have never been a problem. So I am stuck using OS 9 until Mac comes up with a solution to this problem - and I am not holding my breath.

 

Believe me, I have researched the problem thoroughly and tried every work around possible to resolve this problem and the bottom line is that nothing works. If, for example, one removes the anti-aliasing, the font is then too wispy to read properly. If Mac does not offer a solution to this problem which affects a significant minority of people who look at the screen (there is discussion on the net about this problem - check out keywords such as fuzzy and blurry and Mac OSX on google) when my 2 nice Mac cubes and OS 9 are no longer usable (and there are quite a few things I can't do in OS 9 already) I will be forced down the Windows path.

 

I have been a Mac user since 1984 and this has really taken the shine off my previously always enthusiastic support for Mac

Pixelation
Pixelation
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Actually, I think there are 6 flavors of Vista... :blink:

 

8 total if I remember correctly. But I wouldn't be surprised if it ran up to 10 or 12 flavors. :(

  • Windows Vista Home Basic
  • Windows Vista Home Premium
  • Windows Vista Enterprise
  • Windows Vista Business
  • Windows Vista Ultimate
  • Windows Vista Tablet PC
  • Windows Vista Media Center Edition
  • Windows Vista Server (assumution, still known as Windows "Longhorn" Server Beta 1)

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