What do you wish Leopard would have?

[Mikuro]

I posted quite a bit in an old thread on the topic: What Features would you like to see in Leopard?

In brief:

• More multithreading in almost all apps, especially the Finder and Safari.
• Major bug fixes in the Finder and Spotlight.
• Better Smart Folders that are fast and don't randomly refresh when you're trying to use them.
• Dynamic folder icons and better dynamic file icons. <- This one IS in Leopard, at least regarding files. I'm not sure about folders.
• User-definable file tags, sort of like in Gmail.
• List View columns for any and all Spotlight tags, so I can, say, sort images by width in the Finder.

Personally I'm a little wary of the ZFS hype. I'm not sure it presents any real advantages for a desktop OS. Seems to me like it's geared more for servers, and is a bit over-zealous. It sounds awesome, don't get me wrong, but it seems like the real-world benefits are mostly theoretical.

[Giaguara]

Tags would be nice also in bookmarks.

[cyprus mac man]

*Every bug fix possible
*Default GUI system for every window and app(so when I install a new interface, i dont need to worry that it only supports Finder, Address Book, etc.)
*Optional Application icons
*iCal app icon has current date (not needing to start the app to get it)
*easy file sharing
*better third party support
*Java 6, or at least Java 5 with everything that Windows Java 5 has
*EZ app making (even more than Automator)
*The Periodic Table of Elements

Cyprus Mac Man

[eric2006]

Originally Posted by cyprus mac man

*Every bug fix possible
*Default GUI system for every window and app(so when I install a new interface, i dont need to worry that it only supports Finder, Address Book, etc.)
*easy file sharing

done.

(per macworld)

[mw84]

Packaged FTP client and/ or the ability to use Finder as one.

iChat MSN support (with no limited features).

Safari scroll bar fix (small but extremely irritating).

Improved chess game AI, after a few games the computer becomes almost predictable in it's moves.

[Captain Code]

I don't know what the point of ZFS would be except on the Mac Pro and XServe. Sure you can have multiple external disks connected to your MBP or iMac but if you wanted a ZFS volume you would have to keep it connected the same way all the time which I doubt someone would want to do.

[Thank The Cheese]

Last I read Leopard will only read ZFS, not write. Down the line I'm sure it will support it fully, but even then it will be an option, not the default. There is a MacBreak Tech episode that goes into detail with ZFS. It's cool, but I agree, it's not necessary for most of us.

[zynizen]

iTunes Server / Client for all mac's. Eliminate the need to hack your Tunes lib. just to share your own music across your own network, and to be able to burn/sync via any mac on your LAN via the server tunes lib.

doubtful, but thought I would mention it.