I hated the old Mavericks design as well as the iOS 6 - 1 design. It shouldn't take ten seconds for me to tell the difference between the Weather, Stocks, and App Store icons.
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OS X 10.11 Wishlist
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I hated the old Mavericks design as well as the iOS 6 - 1 design. It shouldn't take ten seconds for me to tell the difference between the Weather, Stocks, and App Store icons.
Disgusting Yosemite UI. I want the Aqua back together with all those incredible 3D icons!!
I agree. I wish the old Mountain Lion design would return.
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Ive is not the only vice president, reporting directly to Tim Cook, with an interest in UI design. Craig Federighi's teams are responsible for delivering the software at the heart of … the user interface. And Paul Deneve previously served:
"… as CEO of luxury fashion house Saint Laurent Paris. Prior to Saint Laurent, he held top positions in the fashion industry including president of Lanvin and Nina Ricci, as well as managing director of Courrèges. From 1990 to 1997, Paul held sales and marketing roles at Apple in Europe. …"
With that background, I can't imagine Deneve treating his vice presidency of special projects (such as Apple Watch and its luxurious Edition) as complemented by the many less-than-luxurious reactions to Yosemite – when Macs are positioned alongside the Watch. He can't have confidence in the overall beauty of that Apple ecosystem for as long as a part – a larger part, to which the Watch is an accessory – is justifiably subject to ridicule.
So I'm not entirely pessimistic about the UI. Apple might allow customers to put right some of what Yosemite made wrong. Bear in mind, there were relatively few complaints about the ugliness during the pre-release months; the surge began immediately after release.
Storage systems, file systems
HFS Plus: file system metadata structures, global locks reflects on the improved performance that I found when, just occasionally, I allowed my ZFS home directory to be not hampered by booting from HFS Plus on the same physical disk.
Long term, I'll probably shift my use of a MacBook Pro from Mavericks to PC-BSD, which makes great use of ZFS.
Agreed, and I did much testing and feedback (to Apple) to encourage that possibility, but I doubt that OS X will gain integrated support for ZFS. It'll remain third party, i.e. OpenZFS on OS X.
Despite being thrown off the scent, I still have another wish for OS X 10.11:
keyword carefree (not cost-free).
- simplify storage for users of notebooks
Amongst the things that give (to me) a scent of that improvement, from a topic about unexpected conversions to Core Storage:
If those automated conversions were to Core Storage with encryption, I'd assume that Yosemite was a step towards stronger privacy and security, by default, for notebooks (think: loss, theft and so on).
As things are: the automated conversions without encryption may be simply a cautious approach to encryption; don't proceed without the user's consent.
From the same topic about Core Storage: " Imagine a technology that reduces the need to weed. "; that's the type of 'carefree' that I have in mind. It's a relatively exotic wish, and of course I might be misinterpreting Apple's patent application
If, for example, a person is wealthy enough to purchase an Apple Watch Edition, then they'll probably not care about the cost to store masses of data in an Apple cloud. If the Mac has an Internet connection, then the user need not wonder whether the required data is local or remote a storage system should take care of all such things.
Clever storage system, carefree user.
That's an unselfish wish; I don't expect to benefit from it. (Even if Apple made its cloud storage free of charge for masses of data, I would not use an OS X that looks like Yosemite.)
Side note: I don't imagine ZFS being a good fit with the location independent files technology.
OpenGL and Metal
Yeah I'm aware of the lag, and I did frequently read comments to the Mavericks-related petition before it closed. It's just not a priority/focus area for me.
Neither do I plan to get on a learning curve about Metal it's new to me. Just at a basic level, I assume that an introduction of Metal to OS X would (at time of introduction) complement not immediately replace support for OpenGL
If I were you, I would try Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon before you try PC-BSD. You will find that you need to put more work into maintaining these systems than Mac OS X.
I wonder whether there is a third party application out there that allows me to bring back aqua interface to this lifeless desert called Yosemite...
And here, ladies and gentlemen, you see the typical Android/Windows/whatever fanboy, who buys Apple products for their logo and not for what they used to stand for; Apple's new source of income! Old windows users who want a windows design with plenty of funky colours but with the Apple logo stamped on it. After all, you've got to come towards your clients. The days of buying a MacBook to install & use Windows on it are finally over - you've now got Yosemite! Unstable, not reliable, with a slight touch of a pedophile flair, and of course, the big Apple logo. Everything the modern DJ/Artist/painter/Hipster needs
Where does YOUR journey begin?
I wonder whether there is a third party application out there that allows me to bring back aqua interface to this lifeless desert called Yosemite...
Flavours 2 " shaping well and on the good path " and there's discussion elsewhere in MacRumors Forums.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, you see the typical Android/Windows/whatever fanboy, who buys Apple products for their logo and not for what they used to stand for; Apple's new source of income! Old windows users who want a windows design with plenty of funky colours but with the Apple logo stamped on it. After all, you've got to come towards your clients. The days of buying a MacBook to install & use Windows on it are finally over - you've now got Yosemite! Unstable, not reliable, with a slight touch of a pedophile flair, and of course, the big Apple logo. Everything the modern DJ/Artist/painter/Hipster needs
I'm not a fanboy. I never cared much for Windows at all nor will I ever waste valuable partition space to install Windows. I didn't buy a Mac because of the logo and frankly I didn't really know much about it when I bought my first Mac (iBook G3 Clamshell). It wouldn't matter if it was made by HP or Dell. I find something that meet my needs no matter what was on the back of the product. I don't follow trends or whatever status quote you guys talk about.
I bought it because I wanted an awesome quality computer that integrates both hardware and software. No need to worry about drivers, most malware, crappy bloatware, and the general unreliablity Windows and android produces. The UI was something I had to deal with the Accessibility and changing icons (I'm Red-Green Color Blind and general blindness). Now I don't have to worry about it that much.
Yosemite from my experience is the third most reliable OS after Snow Leopard and Panther. I never experience issues nearly as bad as other OSs.
I'm sorry if I offended your conservative ways with that previous post. It is no different to how people responded to the change from OS 9 to OS X 10.0, or OS X Tiger to Leopard. You replied to a simple post to insult someone you know nothing about? That's pretty cold.
I wonder whether there is a third party application out there that allows me to bring back aqua interface to this lifeless desert called Yosemite...
I think the industry sometimes makes consciously a step backwards. I felt like in the 90's looking at Yosemite, but not in the good manner.
As example the transition from 70's to 80's cars bellow. From 3d/round to ugly angular stile.
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I wonder whether there is a third party application out there that allows me to bring back aqua interface to this lifeless desert called Yosemite...
Technically it's still called the Aqua interface. It just changed over the years
My list:
A control center would be nice.
Passbook app to manage everything and sync with iOS.
An actual Find my iPhone app.
What about an Videos app similar to host they did photos?
More Continuity features
A control center would be nice.
Passbook app to manage everything and sync with iOS.
An actual Find my iPhone app.
What about an Videos app similar to host they did photos?
More Continuity features
My list:
- No UI lag on iMac 5K and some Retina MacBooks in Mission Control.
- No beachballs and lag in PDF (return it to the Mavericks levels of performance)
- General performance improvements and bug fixes
- Siri with "Hey Siri" wakeup
- Small graphical tweaks to make it look a bit distinct (like they always do with iOS)
- No UI lag on iMac 5K and some Retina MacBooks in Mission Control.
- No beachballs and lag in PDF (return it to the Mavericks levels of performance)
- General performance improvements and bug fixes
- Siri with "Hey Siri" wakeup
- Small graphical tweaks to make it look a bit distinct (like they always do with iOS)
I have no 10.11 wishlist at all. I'm just flat tired of the yearly OS X Fashion Show, the totally BS "new features", the nine months of trying to get stuff working that worked fine on last-year's old worn out OS and having to listen to the PR slop that vomits from Tim and Co.
While Tim and Jony are certainly no spring chickens any longer their product line, both hardware and software seems more and more slated towards children, ultra-novice users and the "looky at this!" faux cool crowd.
It's both so sad and so unnecessary.
While Tim and Jony are certainly no spring chickens any longer their product line, both hardware and software seems more and more slated towards children, ultra-novice users and the "looky at this!" faux cool crowd.
It's both so sad and so unnecessary.
Fix this already!
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Thanks!
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Thanks!
I want to see a rewritten Finder.app that scrolls window content smoothly. I also want Finder windows to open immediately the way they do in Snow Leopard, and I want applications to open and close quickly without lag. OS X has gotten quite bloated from 10.7 Lion onward, and it can use a big reduction in size and bloat.
I seem to be in a minority but I actually love Yosemite and I use it for 12 hours a day five days a week.
Only a couple of things I would like to see;
Improvements to dictation. I wish it had the ability to be taught words.
Move Secure Notes from Keychain to the Notes app, so that they sync with iOS.
Only a couple of things I would like to see;
Improvements to dictation. I wish it had the ability to be taught words.
Move Secure Notes from Keychain to the Notes app, so that they sync with iOS.
And colorized icons should be added back to the Finder sidebar, is it was with Snow Leopard and its predecessors.