Mac OS X 10.5 ideas

[cyprus mac man]

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to start a thread to hear what anybody knows about 10.5 and if any of you have any cool ideas for it.

I had some ideas. One would be you could catch the dock icons when they bounced up and down. Another would be that you could slow down the playback in iTunes. In iChat, you could easily connect to MSN, Yahoo, etc. and also have animation Buddy Icons. Also, themes (like the red, yellow, and green buttons at the top) would be shades of Aqua Blue. Also an uninstaller. You could also have the icon for a document (example: Word file) and it would preview the first page as the icon.

Thats about it for now. Ill post back with more.

[Veljo]

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[joe_burban]

Neat ideas Cyprus. In particular, I like the one about iChat -- it would be nice to use it to communicate with other chat programs.

[barhar]

Fix the bugs of MacOS X 10.0.0 through 10.4.7, and provide it as a free 'bug fix' - not as a major 'with 120+ features' release.

[Mikuro]

Originally Posted by barhar

Fix the bugs of MacOS X 10.0.0 through 10.4.7, and provide it as a free 'bug fix' - not as a major 'with 120+ features' release.

Hear, hear! Not going to happen, but it's nice to dream, isn't it?

I think more dynamic icons would be a good idea. At one point Apple did have dynamic icons for text files in OS X, but I don't think this feature made it out of the public beta (or was it in 10.0?). I can certainly understand why they took it out. It's not like you'd actually be able to read much of anything on an icon, so it might not be worth the cost to performance/consistency. But there are other types that could use dynamic icons, like folders.

Along similar lines, it would be nice if the Finder's previewing ability was beefed up. I'd like a way to get pop-up previews in icon and list view (and column view, too, since its previewing isn't terribly convenient as it is). AFAIK, there's no way for developers to hook into this and provide routines for OS X to generate previews. It would be cool if Apple made this extensible; that way potentially every file format out there could have a meaningful preview.

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Another would be that you could slow down the playback in iTunes.

Again...why? There are specialised programs that can do this.

But...not in iTunes. I have all my music in iTunes. With playlists, and all sorts of goodies that no other program with this feature has. Adjusting the speed of music playback isn't just a novelty, and since QuickTime already has the ability to do it, why not? I'd actually like to see this. Although granted, QuickTime 7 isn't all that great at slowing down audio, so its routine would probably need to be improved. It's great at speeding up audio, though. I doubt Apple will be motivated to do this, though, since its usefulness is pretty limited and iTunes is a general-purpose program.



The single feature I want most is the ability to adjust the onscreen resolution of individual apps and windows. This feature allllmost made it to Tiger, in the form of Quartz 2D Extreme (not to be confused with Quartz Extreme). You could even play around with it if you used some debugging tools, but I think they even pulled that out in 10.4.4 or so. Apple is definitely thinking about it, anyway, so it's not unreasonable to expect it in Leopard. Fingers crossed!

[Dark Dexter]

Something that was in Panther that disappeared in Tiger.... ANIMATION IN PREVIEW!!!! What happened to the play button?!?! UGH! I'm sorry but this is major to me.

~Dark Dexter

[cyprus mac man]

also, I would LOVE to bring back the "button" mode from classic. you know, the won where you just click a file once to open it.

also, Veljo, the idea is that it's Apple's program that would do it. not just some other third party application. i know fire can do it with MSN, AIM, and Yahoo. iChat + Psi can do it too, but have Apple work on its own program.

also, something that really would be nice. in finder, when you press the "Go" tab, you see "Computer", "Home", "Network", etc. well the "Computer" icon is an older iMac. I think they should have it be the make and model of the computer you are using (in my case a Power Book G4 15")

[Quicksilver]

Originally Posted by Veljo

Err....why?


Again...why? There are specialised programs that can do this.


Adium achieves this exact purpose.


Uninstallers are totally unnecessary for the majority of Mac OS X applications because they're put into 'packages', meaning essentially all of the application's files are stored in the one file. Simply Trash that and it's uninstalled.


Do you know how hard it would be to see what the first page of the document looked like in a 128 x 128 or smaller icon? Impossible.

Ohhhh! come on mate! give the guy a break. He has some good ideas and didn't he ask if you had any? Anyway, a true mac user is one with ideas.... Big ideas. Go the ideas man! it can only help.

My idea was to see some windows applications that were built for windows run on a mac without windows. but "wine" is starting to do that now:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/...30170338.shtml

i knew someone would do it sooner or later.


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