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Ritsuka

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iTunes is still bloated.

Well, you can just ignore what you don't see.
See the screenshot. Two tabs: My Music and Playlist. You can hide everything else.

Is this in Yosemite or El Capitan?

I think it was introduced in Mountain Lion, or even before.

It needs to be a button next to the backwards/forwards buttons.

There is a path toolbar item too.

You shouldn't have to download these apps though, mouse acceleration is widely disliked.

I think the 99% of the mac users doesn't really care about that. And 70% of Apple sales are laptop with a trackpad.
 

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leman

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Few comments on stuff (man, I must love to argue :D )

Finder needs to implement cut/paste (ridiculous this hasn't been done yet)

Has been there for years

Labeled/tagged files displayed in Finder need to be completely highlighted with primary tag, the single dots are difficult to see (why was this ever implemented?)

How would you define 'primary tag'?

'Go up a level' in Finder should be added (go backwards doesn't always apply)

Use keyboard shortcuts or configure your toolbar to display the path button. Finder does use a bit different navigation philosophy, and they avoid an 'up' button for a reason. They want you to use productive file hierarchy navigation patterns :)

Bring back coloured icons in finder sidebar (desaturated icons are difficult to distinguish)

This is very unlikely to happen. Black-and-white template images are deeply integrated in OS X by now. They have the benefit that they support vibrancy effect and dark/light theme; can't really do this with coloured images.

Complete OpenGL support

I don't understand this. OS X offers complete OpenGL support. Or do you mean 'support latest version'? What would the purpose of that be? Anyway, OpenGL is on its path to deprecation, even by its governing authority. Its a bloated API that does not work well with the design of the modern hardware. If you are looking for high-performance, full feature 3D and 2D graphics, Metal is the way to go for OS X.
 

azpc

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List of things Apple needs to implement:
  • iTunes is a bloated mess - Agree, I've started playing around with Amazon Music.
  • Green button MUST have the option to fill the screen without hiding the dock or file menu (by far the biggest problem)
  • Finder needs to implement cut/paste (ridiculous this hasn't been done yet)
  • Labeled/tagged files displayed in Finder need to be completely highlighted with primary tag, the single dots are difficult to see (why was this ever implemented?)

Good ideas!

To clarify, in the Finder I think you are asking for cut and paste in the Menu as an option. I am in full agreement.

I'm adding a new idea to my list:

Custom colors for folders. This is a frequent student request on both the Mac and Windows machines.
 

azpc

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I have updated the list. Check out the first entry in this thread.
 

Ritsuka

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You can paste a custom icon on every folder/file too. So it's already possible to have custom colours.
 

petvas

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I would like to see some new things, but I do not believe these will come with El Capitan.

Finder: Pause button when copying files, like in Windows Explorer
Photos: More advanced editing and organization tools, like in Aperture. A way to export everything including folder structure and album names.
Mail.app: Better support for Exchange Server, including push mail
 

azpc

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I would like to see some new things, but I do not believe these will come with El Capitan.

Finder: Pause button when copying files, like in Windows Explorer
Photos: More advanced editing and organization tools, like in Aperture. A way to export everything including folder structure and album names.
Mail.app: Better support for Exchange Server, including push mail


Strongly agree with your Photos suggestions!
 

KALLT

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I would like to see some new things, but I do not believe these will come with El Capitan.

Finder: Pause button when copying files, like in Windows Explorer
Photos: More advanced editing and organization tools, like in Aperture. A way to export everything including folder structure and album names.
Mail.app: Better support for Exchange Server, including push mail

Photos supports extensions now, like in iOS. Eventually we will see some advanced options. I think Pixelmator is already experimenting with this.

Exchange already supports ‘push’ email: I get all my emails instantly the moment they are received by the server. Is that not working for you?
 

dyn

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I am just pointing out that storing package/software install metadata in a separate location is a design flaw, IMO. App bundles avoid this elegantly by being their own metadata.
The problem is that you still have to have something that lists all of them and thus have something like 1 place to store them. There are ways in doing that without causing that issue.

Nope. The pkg/dpkg are almost never really necessary in practice. Bundles are the way to go. You can use various APIs and privileged helpers to install launch daemons or link command line tools. Look up SMJobBless() for instance. In fact, Apple manages to put the entire server infrastructure into an app bundle! People use OS X packages mostly because its a lazy way to do things.
Not every software is completely OS X native and not every software needs to be. Sometimes you need to install stuff in places that OS X doesn't account for. Java is a good example of that. It needs to be installed in the ~/Library structure that the user by default doesn't have access to (it's hidden). The user friendly approach is by doing all this via a pkg. It also allows to install other things like plists (reason why it is used by sysadmins).

Thats what I am talking about. I had open-source installers overwriting stuff in /bin before. Sure, my stupid careless mistake for not checking the install script in the first place, but installing as a local user gives me an additional peace of mind.
The same thing happens when you are the owner and have full rights in the directory. Sudo is only a tool to change to the required privileges.

List of things Apple needs to implement:
  • Quarter screen size window snapping via hot corners
They should just do it like Windows does. That way of snapping is useful.
 

azpc

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Quite hard to miss.
labels1.jpg

Ok, I see what you are saying. Thank you for posting! That is a nice feature. Although what students have been asking for on both the Mac and Windows is the ability to change the color of the folder.

What they are wanting to do is to essentially assign certain colors to certain types of folders. Personal, work, finances etc.

Again, thank you for clarifying.
 

Ritsuka

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Ok, I see what you are saying. Thank you for posting! That is a nice feature. Although what students have been asking for on both the Mac and Windows is the ability to change the color of the folder.

What they are wanting to do is to essentially assign certain colors to certain types of folders. Personal, work, finances etc.

Again, thank you for clarifying.

You can provide them with a custom set of folder icons, and they will be able to paste them wherever they like. But it won't work on Windows.
 

colourfastt

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NO new features; get rid of the bloat!!! It shouldn't take 103 seconds for 10.11 to shut down considering 10.6 shut down in 4 seconds.

Oh; and as one poster mentioned: bring back the colored icons in the finder sidebar.
 

dyn

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Two apps that can do this on Mac:

Cinch
BetterTouchTools (with this you can do 1/4 snapping via screen corners)
Moom is another one and there is BetterSnapTool which is from the same dev as BetterTouchTool but only aimed at doing the snapping (it has a bit more options for snapping).

It's ok-ish the way it is done now in El Capitan but it would be much more useful if it were to be like in Windows.

You can make your own custom colors and labels in Finder Preferences.
They are called tags now. The tags can be any word(s) you like but you can only choose between a couple of predefined colours. Tags now also appear with their coloured dots after the file/folder name instead of a bar like it used to be before. Some people want to have the file/folder name coloured but this doesn't work with the new tag system as files/folders can have more than 1 tag. The reason why this was possible previously was because it was a label and you could only use 1 per file/folder.

The tagging system is much more useful than the old label system. There are some files/folders you can reuse and some are part of more than 1 set. This gives you flexibility in how you organise the data on the computer. For some this might be too much flexibility though. The best way to learn is to think in tags and not in folders. By using tags you can do a spotlight search in Finder and home in on a few of the tags. This creates a focused view. For those who know OmniFocus: it's like the focus button.

Photos supports extensions now, like in iOS. Eventually we will see some advanced options. I think Pixelmator is already experimenting with this.
You use Photos to organise all the photos and to do some basic editing. When you want to do some more extensive editing you want (and need) to go to an external editor. That's what the extension functionality is for as well as expending the built-in editing features with new filters and so on. However, all the photo management is done within Photos. The problem is that this is very very basic. If they can get this up to the same level as say Aperture and Lightroom then I'd say they have a winner.

Exchange already supports ‘push’ email: I get all my emails instantly the moment they are received by the server. Is that not working for you?
Push is a server and client thing. Both need to support it and the server has to have it enabled. If the server doesn't support or has it disabled then it won't work. If the client doesn't support it then it won't work either. Iirc Mail does support push with Exchange. I do agree on the Exchange support. Exchange has more features then is supported right now. It would be really cool if we got something like public folders.
 

bladerunner2000

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NO new features; get rid of the bloat!!! It shouldn't take 103 seconds for 10.11 to shut down considering 10.6 shut down in 4 seconds.

Oh; and as one poster mentioned: bring back the colored icons in the finder sidebar.

Without new features, OS X will never evolve.
 

dyn

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Maturing is more "evolving" than adding new features. Especially if those features are primarily Windows features. "Evolving" also means doing things differently then the rest. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. but at least you gain some knowledge, you are getting one step further.
 

leman

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The problem is that you still have to have something that lists all of them and thus have something like 1 place to store them.

No you don't :confused: You just scan the filesystem for app bundles. No central metadata storage needed. AFAIK, this is what Launchpad does — it simply shows your /Applications folder.

The same thing happens when you are the owner and have full rights in the directory. Sudo is only a tool to change to the required privileges.

Come on, now you are just nitpicking. Of course there is always a chance that you overwrite some stuff. But if you don't copy as root, at least you are safe from overwriting important system utilities that are critical to the operation of your base OS. Of course, the system integrity protection in 10.11 renders this argument largely moot.
 

dyn

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Yes you do. In this case it is called Launchpad ;) As we see now when something is wrong with Launchpad the only way to solve it is to remove the plist. The plist contains all the info and thus you'll lose all the settings. You need to reorder and regroup all the apps. You could scan each time you open the app and not allow any ordering/grouping but that makes it very user unfriendely (too slow and you drown in the amount of apps). There is a way of combating it such as caching but then the problem is with the cache. The auto backup feature in FreeBSD is a simple solution to this. You could even automate the restore (when something is wrong it'll automatically restore the backup).

What I meant with the sudo thing is that you are nitpicking. There is always a risk of overwriting something else when you have the appropriate user rights (which are required when you want to put something there). Not using sudo is not going to prevent that at all. Neither will SIP since it doesn't protect every system file.
 
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