Apple OS 10.8 Wishlist

[GWestphal]

0. ZFS. What the hell, we've been promised ZFS since Leopard. It's about time they deliver. ZFS or GTFO, seriously!

1. OpenCL/Grand Central Dispatch every default program and make it easily implementable in third party code. Software is still ages behind fully implementing multi-core hardware. This needs to be remedied.

2. SSE3, SSE3, AVX- use modern instruction sets. Apple's closed garden is the perfect place to actually use the the modern instruction sets, much fewer possible system configurations to worry about. This could probably net 20-40% performance gains on the same hardware in some cases.

3. Right Click New Text File. This would be super handy.

4. Basic paint program with layers, port Paint.net.

5. DLNA streaming equivalent to Windows Media Center that works from PC, PS3, Xbox, mobile etc.

6. This is actually for the associated iLife release. Slim down iPhoto. Improve library handling. Allow fractioning of the library into albums that can be easily imported, exported, backed up. De-duplication of images (this would be great for files in general, find that folder that has been replicated 30 times and is using 100GB.

7. Data Visualization- Like WhatSize or GrandPerspective, but maybe faster and prettier. It's nice to see where all the data is going sometimes.

8. Decent first party Remote Desktop applications for RDP and VNC. Like Cord and Chicken of the VNC, but with a touch of Apple magic.

9. Overhaul TextEdit, and get it to Wordpad level and preferably Notepad++ level. Perhaps consolidate the Xcode editor with the general editor so you can have the power features like syntax highlighting if you want them.

10. To be continued...add your own.

 

[TheStu]

0. ZFS. What the hell, we've been promised ZFS since Leopard. It's about time they deliver. ZFS or GTFO, seriously!

No one has promised you anything. We have just been hearing about it. If you want broken 'promises' look at Resolution Independence.

1. OpenCL/Grand Central Dispatch every default program and make it easily implementable in third party code. Software is still ages behind fully implementing multi-core hardware. This needs to be remedied.

I am not a programmer, but my understanding was that these already were easily implementable, at least from the perspective of other parallelization solutions.

2. SSE3, SSE3, AVX- use modern instruction sets. Apple's closed garden is the perfect place to actually use the the modern instruction sets, much fewer possible system configurations to worry about. This could probably net 20-40% performance gains on the same hardware in some cases.

Are you sure they currently don't? Also, just because Apple can't run .exe's doesn't make it a closed garden. iOS is closed, OS X is not.

3. Right Click New Text File. This would be super handy.

4. Basic paint program with layers, port Paint.net.

Why?

5. DLNA streaming equivalent to Windows Media Center that works from PC, PS3, Xbox, mobile etc.

AirPlay

6. This is actually for the associated iLife release. Slim down iPhoto. Improve library handling. Allow fractioning of the library into albums that can be easily imported, exported, backed up. De-duplication of images (this would be great for files in general, find that folder that has been replicated 30 times and is using 100GB.

I don't really take photos but yea, sure ok, i can get behind optimizations

7. Data Visualization- Like WhatSize or GrandPerspective, but maybe faster and prettier. It's nice to see where all the data is going sometimes.

DaisyDisk

8. Decent first party Remote Desktop applications for RDP and VNC. Like Cord and Chicken of the VNC, but with a touch of Apple magic.

Apple Magic? Really? Anyway, Screen Sharing is VNC, and Microsoft's RDP client is pretty good. It doesn't always have to be first party

9. Overhaul TextEdit, and get it to Wordpad level and preferably Notepad++ level. Perhaps consolidate the Xcode editor with the general editor so you can have the power features like syntax highlighting if you want them.

Why?

 

[swanysto]

Let me delete thing with the delete key, and not have to right click and move to trash. Also, let me rename stuff by right clicking as well.

 

[alent1234]

i don't think you can multi-thread every program due to thread scheduling issues. it's up to the developer of the application

 

[IHAVEAQUESTION]

Cut/paste as right-click option, without holding down a key.

 

[sourceninja]

0. ZFS. What the hell, we've been promised ZFS since Leopard. It's about time they deliver. ZFS or GTFO, seriously!

No thanks, I use ZFS and it's not that great.

1. OpenCL/Grand Central Dispatch every default program and make it easily implementable in third party code. Software is still ages behind fully implementing multi-core hardware. This needs to be remedied.

Its easy enough to use, no need to force it down our throats.

2. SSE3, SSE3, AVX- use modern instruction sets. Apple's closed garden is the perfect place to actually use the the modern instruction sets, much fewer possible system configurations to worry about. This could probably net 20-40% performance gains on the same hardware in some cases.

I thought most stuff used this by default. I'll need to check.

3. Right Click New Text File. This would be super handy.

I wouldn't mind it, but now that I have DTerm I don't use it.

4. Basic paint program with layers, port Paint.net.

5. DLNA streaming equivalent to Windows Media Center that works from PC, PS3, Xbox, mobile etc.

8. Decent first party Remote Desktop applications for RDP and VNC. Like Cord and Chicken of the VNC, but with a touch of Apple magic.

9. Overhaul TextEdit, and get it to Wordpad level and preferably Notepad++ level. Perhaps consolidate the Xcode editor with the general editor so you can have the power features like syntax highlighting if you want them.

I don't want my OS bloated. Personally I think OSX does too much out of the box. I do wish textedit was just plain text. I hate rtf.

 

[Reliant]

Let me delete thing with the delete key, and not have to right click and move to trash. Also, let me rename stuff by right clicking as well.

Command + delete to delete & highlight + enter to rename. Both very quick alternatives to right clicking, at least to me.

 

[Reliant]

Cut/paste as right-click option, without holding down a key.

Probably not what you're looking for, but if you copy the file, then go to the desired location and command + option + v that moves the files you copied from one location to another. Functionally the same as cut.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Let me delete thing with the delete key, and not have to right click and move to trash. Also, let me rename stuff by right clicking as well.

You can delete with the delete key by holding the fn button and then deleting.

You can rename by pressing enter and then rename.

 

[TheStu]

No thanks, I use ZFS and it's not that great.



Its easy enough to use, no need to force it down our throats.


I thought most stuff used this by default. I'll need to check.


I wouldn't mind it, but now that I have DTerm I don't use it.



I don't want my OS bloated. Personally I think OSX does too much out of the box. I do wish textedit was just plain text. I hate rtf.

CMD+,
Switch to Plaintext
Profit?

 

[Patranus]

Airplay -> Computer
Computer Screen -> AppleTV
iTunes background process. I really shouldn't have to make sure I keep iTunes open all of the time to share media.
Better media sharing/iTunes server. Would love something like Plex integrated into the finder.

 

[sourceninja]

CMD+,
Switch to Plaintext
Profit?

No see it's not that I don't know how. It's all the stupid mac users out there that insist on sending me stuff in RTF (Like code examples).

 

[TheStu]

No see it's not that I don't know how. It's all the stupid mac users out there that insist on sending me stuff in RTF (Like code examples).

The annoying thing (for me at least) was that on 10.4 it defaulted to plaintext, not RTF. I think it was with 10.5 that they switched over to RTF as the default.

If they are doing code why are they using textedit anyway, especially in RTF.

 

[Patranus]

The annoying thing (for me at least) was that on 10.4 it defaulted to plaintext, not RTF. I think it was with 10.5 that they switched over to RTF as the default.

If they are doing code why are they using textedit anyway, especially in RTF.

Why would anyone use TextEdit for coding when TextWrangler is available for FREE.

 

[Kaido]

Wishlist for 10.8? Just rip off the band-aid and make it iOS for Desktop already...lol.

 

[Kaido]

No one has promised you anything. We have just been hearing about it. If you want broken 'promises' look at Resolution Independence.

It was on their advertising for Snow Leopard server until the keynote:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/apple-dashes-hopes-for-zfs-support-in-snow-leopard.ars

Up until Monday's WWDC keynote, the preview page for Snow Leopard Server specifically referred to ZFS support as one of its key features. "For business-critical server deployments, Snow Leopard Server adds read and write support for the high-performance, 128-bit ZFS file system, which includes advanced features such as storage pooling, data redundancy, automatic error correction, dynamic volume expansion, and snapshots," bragged the copy on Apple's website

Sorta lame that they pulled it, but they wouldn't have done it without a good reason. Whether that was stability, licensing, or the impending iCloud rollout, we'll probably never know...fortunately FreeNAS v8 supports ZFS, which is where I really want it anyway (on a local NAS):

http://www.freenas.org/category/version-comparison

I am not a programmer, but my understanding was that these already were easily implementable, at least from the perspective of other parallelization solutions.

Yeah, I've heard it was usable - but everyone is going gaga for CUDA (especially Adobe).

 

[silverpig]

ZFS won't happen, at least not from Apple.

I've got a ZFS implementation on my hackintosh. It works pretty well.

 

[Kadarin]

To satisfy some people in this forum, how about restoring the y-axis to Spaces? Add a z-axis (and tau axis? Why stop at three dimensions?)

 

[TheStu]

To satisfy some people in this forum, how about restoring the y-axis to Spaces? Add a z-axis (and tau axis? Why stop at three dimensions?)

String Spaces! Make desktops in all 18 (no, 19 (no, 23)) dimensions!

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Wishlist for 10.8? Just rip off the band-aid and make it iOS for Desktop already...lol.

Probably, if not the most stupid comment I have read regarding OS.

 

[VinylxScratches]

3. Right Click New Text File. This would be super handy.
terminal --> touch file.txt

4. Basic paint program with layers, port Paint.net.

Seashore

5. DLNA streaming equivalent to Windows Media Center that works from PC, PS3, Xbox, mobile etc.

There's some kind of PS3 media server that's cross platform that works well I believe.

7. Data Visualization- Like WhatSize or GrandPerspective, but maybe faster and prettier. It's nice to see where all the data is going sometimes.

terminal --> du -ch | grep total in what ever path you're in

8. Decent first party Remote Desktop applications for RDP and VNC. Like Cord and Chicken of the VNC, but with a touch of Apple magic.

OS X has VNC and Microsoft supplied RDP for Macs. RDesktop might exist on Macs as well, that's what I use in Linux

9. Overhaul TextEdit, and get it to Wordpad level and preferably Notepad++ level. Perhaps consolidate the Xcode editor with the general editor so you can have the power features like syntax highlighting if you want them.

Why? TextEdit is fine and simple.

10. To be continued...add your own.

My answers and I don't even use Macs anymore 🙂, *nix FTW!

 

[Kaido]

Probably, if not the most stupid comment I have read regarding OS.

All signs point to Apple heading that way. The current crop of rumors say the Mac Pro is on the outs and ARM-based laptops are being tested. The Xserve has already died off. They neutered Final Cut Pro X. Lion introduced full-screen mode for running just one app at a time. They released the Mac App Store, which has already hit 100 million app downloads. Everything else in their product line runs iOS - the iPod Touch, the iPhone, the iPad, the AppleTV.

So why not extend iOS to the desktop?

 

[JSt0rm]

I like your list.

All I care about is stable mature software.

 

[Kaido]

I like your list.

All I care about is stable mature software.

Yah. I'm really happy with 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) - fast, stable, no issues. Have decided not to upgrade to Lion on my main machine for a loooong time :biggrin: