P.S. Shay, what other improvements would you like to see in the next
release?
* A system wide database for use by all applications, ala (on a small
scale InternetConfig), BeOS, the Newton and upcoming versions of MS
Windows. Only then will we be able to move towards the Knowledge
Navigator concept Apple was espousing oh so many years ago!
* All Apple applications properly supporting file metadata (reading,
not just writing), and a guideline directing all OS X developers to
support metadata.
* A reviewing and fixing where necessary of the Mac OS X 'human' interface
* The return of the real Location Manager
* A Keychain which doesn't let everyone walk up to your computer and
read your passwords
* Some form of control strip functionality, rather than putting
dozens of icons in the menu bar, or the dock, or both!
* A realisation that because Unix did it that way 40 years ago
doesn't mean Apple customers should have to put up with it today.
People bought Macs because they wanted to do things differently (and
more efficiently), not because they wanted to do everything the same
way everyone else was doing it.
* Installers that don't delete your hard drive or photos (and that
doesn't mean better QA, the problem is caused by a reliance on Unix
tools and pathnames)
* Aliases that work
* Trashes that empty
* The ability to put files where I want to put them ("Oh, you didn't
have the application 'blah' in the Applications folder on the boot
drive? Too bad!")
Now, how many of those did we have in OS 9?
Have fun,
Shay (I'd ask for Avie's head on a pike, but there aren't enough to
go around :)
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