Aqua Taskforce

Stacks should update changes such as renaming and custom icons

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:51:24 CEST

Problem: When making changes such as renaming files, or customizing icons, they are not updated on a stack. For example, when renaming a file, if the stack is sorted by name, it doesn't re-arrange by the new naming. Also when customizing icons within a folder, (more...)
Solution: Stacks should update any and all changes such as renaming and custom icons.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder: use the searchbox for filtering of folder contents

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:09:41 CEST

Problem: The searchbox in the finder window is somehow broken. The fact that everytime you enter a search term the whole computer is searched is simply not understandable (from my point of view).
Solution: I (partly) like the way the "searchbox" in vista/win7 works. So I'have an idea how to adapt such a behaviour to Mac OS X:
If you enter text (without pressing return) into the seachbox of a finder window then the folder contents should (more...)
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder: opening file removes undo option

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:06:13 CEST

Problem: Most of the operations that can be done though finder can be undone afterwards, eg. renaming the fileextension. But if you open a file after doing something, the last operation cannot be undone anymore.

In my case I sometimes get ISO files (more...)
Solution: Allow undo even after opening a file between the opening process and the last operation.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder: listview and copying files with keyboardshortcut

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:42:46 CEST

Problem: If the Finder is in listview and a sub folder is opened with the "triangle" symbol, the shortcut cmd-v doesn't paste the file in the opened/selected subfolder but in the main folder that is opened in the current finder window.

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Solution: If a sub folder in listview is "opened" (triangle top is on the bottom) and the folder or a file in the folder is selected, then a cmd-v should paste the file into this folder, and not in the folder that is currently shown in the finder window.
Severity: Medium
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Multimonitor: autodetection fails after unplugging second monitor

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:25:51 CEST

Problem: I have a Macbook Pro and sometimes I connect an external monitor and use it as the main screen. The internal screen is disabled (booting with closed lid). When opening the lid, the internal screen stays black, but after unplugging the external screen, (more...)
Solution: Pressing F7 on Macbook Pro should not only rotate the display mode but include the autodetection to check if the second screen is still there.

(I don't know how other Macs handle that).
Severity: Medium
Impact: Medium
Status: Not fixed

New E-mail Window Starts in background

Wed, 27 May 2009 16:05:31 CEST

Problem: Whenever i'm in an application other than Mail and click on an e-mail link, a new message windows in Mail.app is openned but stays behind Mail's main window.
I don't know if that has to do with a Spaces problem but it happens all (more...)
Solution: New message window should always come in the foreground.
Severity: Low
Impact: Medium
Status: Not fixed

Different Dock layout for each Space

Tue, 26 May 2009 12:12:47 CEST

Problem: There is only one single Dock layout for all Spaces so that a Space dedicated to image manipulation for instance has all the unnecessary quick access icons at hand and is missing the graphics software related starters instead because they would otherwise (more...)
Solution: - Offer an option to set up a Space specific Dock for each Space. It is only overlapping the standard which can still be accessed through a "switch Dock button".
- rearrange (group) and highlight the icons of the opened windows of the (more...)
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder file and folder renaming interruption

Sun, 24 May 2009 09:00:34 CEST

Problem: My Finder stops renaming files and folders as they are being renamed, resulting in unnamed or partially named files and folders. This occurs whether edit mode was entered by clicking the file/folder name, or by hitting "enter".
Solution: The only dependable workaround I've found is to use Get Info to change individual file and folder names. That's too clunky.
Severity: Medium
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder (feature request): rename more files at once

Tue, 19 May 2009 18:04:28 CEST

Problem: Renaming many files in finder is very tedious. Here are two propositions for improving the rename functionality.
Solution: It would be cool to have a bulk rename mode. I can think of this two sub modes:
1. If more files are selected and the rename mode is activated, only the first file should be in rename mode. After pressing return to commit the change, the next file (more...)
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder: select files with with mouse

Tue, 19 May 2009 13:33:58 CEST

Problem: If you are using the keyboard to select files shift+arrow keys) you can't unselect files via keyboard, eg. using shift-down selects the orginal file + the file "below", but shift-up, doesn't unselect that last selected file.

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Solution: Either use the "select-only" mode (addition model of selection?), which allows no unselection (Finder keyboard selection mode) or use allow unselection, both with mouse and keyboard (fixed-point-selection model?, like in konquerero or dolphin) (more...)
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

iCal: I can't find any way to delete calendar entries or ToDos.

Tue, 19 May 2009 04:23:02 CEST

Problem: I believe there should be an easy way of deleting entries of any kind in iCal (e.g., calendar events or To Dos. I can't think of any reason why this capability should not be present for other types of entries, but perhaps there is one.) If an event (more...)
Solution: (1) Proposed solution: I think Apple should include a DELETE button or function within iCal.
(2) Alternatively (my 2nd choice) you could use the DELETE key on the keyboard to accomplish this function.

(NOTE: I am just a regular (more...)
Severity: Low
Impact: Medium
Status: Not fixed

Preview - Next/Previous active for single item

Sun, 17 May 2009 23:56:10 CEST

Problem: If you have a single item open in preview the next/previous buttons are still active and clickable. This is counter-intuitive because it hints that there are next and previous items.

In Safari (and other browsers) the next and previous (more...)
Solution: I believe they should be greyed out according to the following rules:

[1] Single item - both buttons greyed out
[2] First item - previous button greyed out
[3] Last item - next button greyed out
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Safari: incorrect behaviour for "graphite" theme

Sun, 17 May 2009 11:11:40 CEST

Problem: I don't like "traffic light" colors so I always switch to "graphite". This gives the whole system a very consistent chrome look. But the loading indicator of Safari's address bar does always look blue.
Solution: Make Safari's loading indicator match the chosen system theme.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder: Rename bug with long filenames

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:07:58 CEST

Problem: If you try to rename (very) long filenames the "renaming box" shows the first 3 lines. If you then go to the end end select up to the beginning, all lines above the last 3 will not be shown. This makes it impossible to rename the file properly.
(more...)
Solution: Simply fix it.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Click-Through: no consistent behaviour

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:26:56 CEST

Problem: If you click on a file in an inactive Finder window then the file gets selected. A click on a toolbar icon doesn't do anything. iCal reacts the same way. But Safari and Mail have no click-through. If Mail is inactive, you can't select a different (more...)
Solution: Either completly deactivate click through for all apps or make it the default for all apps.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Press enter to open folder or file

Sun, 3 May 2009 23:38:41 CEST

Problem: Like many, I use a windows quite often as well as mac, so it is really annoying to press enter on a file or folder to have mac's finder start changing the folder or filename.
Solution: Fix it. Windows does it just fine, so model that!
Severity: Medium
Impact: Medium
Status: Not fixed

Safari: maximum simultanious downloads

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:31:04 CEST

Problem: If you want to quickly download many files, you have only two choices:
* Either download them all simultaniously
* Or use a download manager tool

I hate downloading simultaniously, because it slows down all downloads and the (more...)
Solution: Let the user set the maximum number of simultanouse download jobs. Safari then adds all downloads but starts them only up to tha number. All other downloads are "paused". If one download is finished, Safari starts the next "paused" (more...)
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Safari: not switching to space when search is activated

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:39:30 CEST

Problem: If there is a safari window with an active search (searchbar visible + dimmed website background + highlighted text), then the alt-tab doesn't switch to the space, where the Safari window is. Safari is being activated - the menu bar changes - but (more...)
Solution: Make the spaces autoswitch mechanism work while safari has a running search.
Severity: Medium
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Spaces: started apps are shown on top of the spaces overview

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:40:44 CEST

Problem: If you start an app and then switch to the spaces overview and wait til the app has finished loading, it shows up in front of the spaces overview.

This looks like in the screenshot.
Solution: If apps are started and then spaces is activated, the starting app should be shown on that space, where it has been started.

It should look it has been started before spaces was activated.
Severity: Medium
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Safari: tabbar

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:33:59 CEST

Problem: If you've so much tabs open, that Safari can't display them in the tabbar, a >> appears on the right side of the tabbar. Through clicking on it you can access the tabs, that can't be shown on the tabbar anymore.
If you often (more...)
Solution: Add an option to adopt the Firefox behaviour: enable horizontal scrolling.
So if you scroll to the right side, the left tabs disappear and all tabs on the right side are shown.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Make sharing network files "Just work".

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:53:32 CEST

Problem: Like a lot of people, I have a Windows Vista based PC, and a Mac as a second laptop machine. I want to copy files between the two. WHY is it so hard? At times, the PC can see the Mac, but the Mac can't ever see the PC. In the end, I've had to (more...)
Solution:
Severity: High
Impact: Medium
Status: Not fixed

Safari: download window as tab

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:17:12 CEST

Problem: Safari download window is a separate little window on the desktop. Imho this behaviour should be more consistent with the whole UI.
Like the bookmark manager, there should be an option to show the download window in a tab. I can even imagine some (more...)
Solution: Show the download window in a tab window or in a sidebar.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder: select files with keyboard (Part 2)

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:59:39 CEST

Problem: If you select some files via keyboard (cmd-shift + arrow down) and then press cmd-shift+arrow up, we all know, that the last selected file will not be undone. So far so good ... not there is some kind of "invisible selection" on the last but (more...)
Solution: There should be some kind of sign, maybe a highlighted border, to show, where the selection is. So everyone can see, when an additional file will be selected.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Finder: select files by typing letters

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:22:29 CEST

Problem: If you are in a folder and type a letter, say 'a', then the file selection jumps to the first file beginning with that letter. If there is no file that beginns with that letter, the file with the next letter in the alphabet gets selected: in (more...)
Solution: If there is no file with the beginning letter, that has been typed, don't select anything.
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Easily add comments/tags to files

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:49:48 CEST

Problem: Tagging files have become more and more common. Any ideas how to easily tag files ?
Solution: Just an idea: one could have the possibility to add comments directly in the 'Save as' dialog box. For example when downloading... ?
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Window Management: autosize windows that are larger than the screen

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:16:26 CEST

Problem: If you start an application (like iCal, Mail, Safari) and maximize it to the screensize the actual window size is stored. The next time the app starts up, the size is restored.
So far, this behaviour is greate.
But if you restart your computer (more...)
Solution: Adjust the window width to the current screen width if the window is wider than the screen.
Severity: Medium
Impact: Medium
Status: Not fixed

Quicklook: show all folder contents in grid array

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:51:44 CET

Problem: If you select all files in a folder (cmd-a) and then press alt-cmd-y some kind of slideshow starts. If you then press the button with the 4 squares all files of the folder are shown in a grid array with previews.

This is quite usefull if (more...)
Solution: Either add a new toolbar button or use a modifier key + quicklook toolbar button.
(alt + click on the toolbar button open quicklook in fullscreen mode)
Severity: Low
Impact: Medium
Status: Not fixed

Finder: add "new files" to the context menu

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:47:20 CET

Problem: Finder just offers to create a new folder or a "burn folder". But what if I want to create a textfile directly in the window where I am?
Yes, there are some contextual menu enhancers, but as you can see in the image, this not an acceptable (more...)
Solution: It would be better if such a "new file" menu would replace the "new (burn) folder" item. The two "new folder" items should be added to this menu instead.

The items shown in that "new file" menu should (more...)
Severity: Low
Impact: Medium
Status: Not fixed

Click on desktop brings Finder windows to front

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:07:02 CET

Problem: Clicking on the desktop where there's nothing activates the finder but does not bring it's windows to the front.
Isn't that a waste?
Solution:
Severity: Low
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed

Time Machine: Improve backup/restore Performance

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:11:45 CET

Problem: Backing up: Time Machine takes way too much time to back up files as small as 20MB and while the backup process is running it uses quite much CPU usage so if the user runs an app/game it slows down quite significantly. The beginning and ending of backups (more...)
Solution: Improve backup/restore Performance. Don't just back up files every hour - back them up "live" as they change. Run the backup process with lower HDD/CPU priority so it doesn't slow down the running system/apps/games.
Severity: Medium
Impact: Low
Status: Not fixed