Some changes for 10.4 - Page 5

btoth · #33 February 7th, 2004, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by octane

That's just plain silly! So by building it into the system it'll use less memory?

Where would it stop? Would you want Safari built in next? You've been hanging round Windows too long, mate!..

Windows doesn't do it either, but I like how in Unix when you log in it will tell you if you have any new mail (at least at school it did). Just something in the menu bar or such (an option of course) that would let you know if you have mail waiting, then you can use your prefered email app to check it.

This wasn't of big importance to me, just an idea, and a 3rd party app is probably available or easy enough to write.

And no.... web browsing should not be built in to the Finder, the Finder should be used to manages files.... not act as a web browser. (My opinion anyway.) I like being able to choose what web browser I want to use.

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That would remove one feature just to add another. Have the File->Cut be an alt-click option rather than a replacement...

Does anyone actually use this though? It does the same thing as Copy/Paste, it's very easy to just do Command+C Command+V. Though you don't have to remove it, but a Cut would be nice (or maybe Apple would name it Move). I personally get sick of all of Apple's "hidden" options like Alt-this Option-that. I thought Macs where supposed to be "easier".

I thought of two more things (probably mentioned before):

* A Restore option for the trash, for when you delete something accidentally and want to later put it back to where it was. I actually use this feature often in Windows (not that I'm trying to make OS X more like Windows... heck no! but a useable feature should not be overlooked just because Windows has it).

* I think that there should be an Unistaller app to go along with the Installer app. That way programs that do use the Installer (mostly really big app packages like Office and Adobe) would have an Uninstaller to clean up files that you probably don't know exist in your system somewhere and are tricky to remove. Unlike the Windows uninstaller, the Apple one would probably work

because we don't have crap like DLLs and Registry entries that muck up the works.

steven_lufc · #34 February 19th, 2004, 04:15 AM

What about its name.... which big cat would you like to see next?? We've had Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar & Panther. Should Apple even continue with this theme? Personally, I think so, I like it but eventually they'll run out of cats!!

HateEternal · #35 February 19th, 2004, 12:47 PM

idk there are a lot of different cats out there... idk how many wildcats there are. I think i may be turned off abit if the next release is called American Shorthair. Not that the name of an OS really matters, as long as it works.

One thing i think might be kind of a good idea(might get flamed on this one) is to do what microsoft did with explorer. I think it would be nice if finder also functioned as a web browser, safari is nice, but if you already have finder running why not save some memory and loading time by mashing safari into finder.

What I dont understand about explerer and Internet explorer is that you can open explorer and type in a url and it will change browsing mode to web and open the link. This doesnt start iexplorer and uses the same amount of memory. If you run IE it starts a process called iexplorer now you are running ie and explorer, basically the same 2 programs with the exception that one is called internet explorer and has different settings(icons and view mostly, all things that can be changed) than explorer. Why didnt MS just put it all into one? Having the shortcut for IE just open to a diff(web) location than My Documents.

All this coming from a guy who uses firefox as his default Pc browser...

HateEternal · #36 February 21st, 2004, 10:33 AM

I am going to bump this one up, just because I want to see what others think about what i said above.

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andychrist · #37 February 21st, 2004, 12:05 PM

I say let Finder be Finder. Was thrilled when Sherlock was severed. Safari is my default browser but wouldn't want to be tied to it. Understand what you mean about [initial] load time, but once your browser is open there's no problem and the way X manages memory you won't see significant savings.

Don't see how Apple can come up with a classier looking cat than Panther.

I want 10.4 to be 10.3.3...