Was replying to a post on TUAW and got a bit carried away - thought I might reproduce it here : D

Dear Santa Steve i know it’s a few months left till crimbo but there are a feww things i’d like but prolly won’t see in leopard -

1. well a new finder is a given - i’d really like to see some features windoze has that would be nice such as cut n paste of files even tho it breaks the paradigm…, file management features in open / save dialogues - oh improve keyboard navigation of same dialogue requesters

2. I’d like for the finder not to stall (and at times crash) each time a machine that was being accessed via a mounted share is switched off

3. I’d like the printer options to use tabs or icons a la prefs rather than a drop down menu with at times hard to understand names - a clearly labelled static menu makes for a better ui menu than any drop down menu.

4. I’d like a place somewhere in the finder such as the menu bar or dock where the os would should show file transfer info. The file progress windows often lose focus and get buried.
5. I’d like volume controls in safari.
6. I’d like more ui consistency especially with floating palettes like the font and the character palettes - why can’t they be proper windows?

7. I’d like more app consistency with the apple w - some apps quit when their window is closed.

8. I’d like a way to customise hightlighting methods using multiple mouse clicks - e.g a triple click could be set to highlight all characters including punctuation between brackets or inverted commas

9. system wide units - if I specify my preferred measurement units are Centigrade, and metric in the OS, then all apps i install should know this and shouldn’t be configured each time.

10. hardware wise I’d like a ball-less mighty mouse (it gets clogged too easily) with more buttons

11. a headless imac that can be upgraded with standard rather than notebook ram and have another hdd added internally

12. same as above but geared towards home theatre usage (hdmi, tv tuner etc)

13. a phoneless iphone or microportable or a laptop with solid state drives…

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