Tiger wish list - feel free to add to it

[PaulHigg]

I wish I could print from some of the Widgets like, address book, stickies, dictionary, and the Yellow Pages phone book.

I wish I could minimize stickies like the REAL stickies, why can't the other stickies (the real ones) be incorporated into Dashboard?

I wish Spotlight could access System and Library files.

I wish there was some EASY way I could turn HTML pages I have saved into Word documents.

I wish I could save e-mails to another location BESIDES inside Mail.

[MacFreak]

I wish that I can change prference on one widget to stay on my desktop while other disappear. Than check widgets too often.

[fryke]

1.) I wish I could easily search for files by their name. That's the ONE thing. It's not currently being solved in 10.4.1. (Nor are the other Spotlight gripes like Cmd-"f" showing a _really_ strange default choice that is _not_ user changeable...)

2.) I wish Mail.app's icon would show the count of unread messages instead of just showing the unread messages in my inbox. My goal is to use rules to filter MOST of my mails, i.e. the inbox only gets - basically - unwanted mails from contacts I don't know. (All others are automatically sorted.)

3.) Focus on professionals. This is quite a "soft" wish, I guess, and it might be better aimed at 10.5 than at Tiger's little updates. What I mean is: Enough of those rather small and "fun" improvements already, Apple! Enough of those nice little filters for iPhoto, gadgets like Dashboard, convergence of iLife applications. I want a Finder that works, I want a search tool that works, I want you (Apple) catering to graphics designers, I want a Font Book that actually works (it needs to be MUCH, MUCH better).

If I look at the history of Mac OS X, I think the biggest worst thing Apple has done to us users and developers is: The Finder. It was unbearable in DP4 (I didn't look at DP3 and earlier) and the Public Beta as well as the first release version (10.0). Apple, it seems to me, has not acknowledged this ever since. They've started to bring some features back from OS 9 (labels, spring-open folders) - but only half-heartedly. (You can't choose the colours of the labels yourself, spring-open folders misses to be predictable enough.) But they have merely started to fix things like icon spacing etc. On the other hand, they seem to have had enough time to implement things like smart folders, burnable folders (10.4), inline search, Brushed Metal (10.3) as well as cosmetic changes to Aqua. While I don't say those were not important, I think - I almost BEG - it'd be important to fix the Finder. I actually think about demonstrating in Cupertino, should Apple not consider fixing the Finder a top priority for 10.5. But now I'm majorly off topic, ain't I. Sorry for that...

[Convert]

1.) I wish I could easily search for files by their name. That's the ONE thing. It's not currently being solved in 10.4.1. (Nor are the other Spotlight gripes like Cmd-"f" showing a _really_ strange default choice that is _not_ user changeable...)

2.) I wish Mail.app's icon would show the count of unread messages instead of just showing the unread messages in my inbox. My goal is to use rules to filter MOST of my mails, i.e. the inbox only gets - basically - unwanted mails from contacts I don't know. (All others are automatically sorted.)

3.) Focus on professionals. This is quite a "soft" wish, I guess, and it might be better aimed at 10.5 than at Tiger's little updates. What I mean is: Enough of those rather small and "fun" improvements already, Apple! Enough of those nice little filters for iPhoto, gadgets like Dashboard, convergence of iLife applications. I want a Finder that works, I want a search tool that works, I want you (Apple) catering to graphics designers, I want a Font Book that actually works (it needs to be MUCH, MUCH better).

If I look at the history of Mac OS X, I think the biggest worst thing Apple has done to us users and developers is: The Finder. It was unbearable in DP4 (I didn't look at DP3 and earlier) and the Public Beta as well as the first release version (10.0). Apple, it seems to me, has not acknowledged this ever since. They've started to bring some features back from OS 9 (labels, spring-open folders) - but only half-heartedly. (You can't choose the colours of the labels yourself, spring-open folders misses to be predictable enough.) But they have merely started to fix things like icon spacing etc. On the other hand, they seem to have had enough time to implement things like smart folders, burnable folders (10.4), inline search, Brushed Metal (10.3) as well as cosmetic changes to Aqua. While I don't say those were not important, I think - I almost BEG - it'd be important to fix the Finder. I actually think about demonstrating in Cupertino, should Apple not consider fixing the Finder a top priority for 10.5. But now I'm majorly off topic, ain't I. Sorry for that...

I totally agree. Repped post.

[Gerard McLean]

fryke,

yes, yes, yes... Apple only has to look at Pathfinder to see what a real Finder should be... I've finally just turned off the Finder and use Pathfinder exclusively, though I really, really want to stay with Apple's interface.. but I've got real work to do and PF allows me to do it quickly and efficiently.

[Scottfab]

Um... maybe its because I'm not a power user, but whats wrong with finder?

I wish that they'd hurry up and release some bug fixes for Tiger. I also wish that Dashboard would be more like Konfabulator. And a perminant floating stickies is a must.

[Ripcord]

And a perminant floating stickies is a must.

...Don't you already have that? Stickies.app isn't new in Tiger.

It seems like people only want to use the Dashboard stickies because Dashboard is a new and cool toy.

[Scottfab]

...Don't you already have that? Stickies.app isn't new in Tiger.

It seems like people only want to use the Dashboard stickies because Dashboard is a new and cool toy.

Stickies apps is there too? Awesome. Screw Dashboard. Uses too much virtual memory.