Comments on: Any Last Leopard Requests?

By: Brian Bradley

Brian Bradley — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:37:52 +0000

I was looking for more information on a procedure that can be used to update all hyperlinks (when they identify page numbers) in a document while using Leopard (and awaiting Panther?).

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:47:30 +0000

well leopard is an intelligent OS, smarter enough and quick enough to make our day to day computing requirements a sheer pleasure.. but compared to vista features, it still gotta push further, if it has to really claim its light years ahead of vista. well, leaving all the technical requirements aside, here are some simple changes which can make a huge difference to basic home users like us…

1. try to remove scroll bars. there are lot more intelligent ways to manage scroll than what the present GUI has, which looks like a minute of hard labour is needed to pull down the thing.

2. virtual folder implementation right into stacks. like i select couple of files from a folder, just drag them to the dock, it should be made a virtual folder stack rather than putting all files seperately

3. atleast give mac users a .mac id free with less storage space though.. Microsoft is a clear winner when it comes to mail, messenger and other communication services.. i know ichat has some gimmicks which kids will be happy with, though.

4. make desktop sharing a seperate app too, so that ichat is not required evrytime

5. handy context menu for cut/copy/paste..

6. easy folder implementation, like in vista for view and organisation and type selection.. a mere copying from vista been done in leopard search folders. looks good too. why not extending it to all folders????

7. we all know safari is a good browser but when it comes to ease of use, its just so boring..

8. finally, but not less important, change this old looking icons, which reminds me of 80′s

By: wasim

wasim — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:30:07 +0000

Well i Believe Leopard is a very good upgrade and but i wish something must have been done to scroll bars, i really hate them and i want something sleeker than blue neon rods…. a tabbed finder (ahhhh) atleast better chess game, all new icons, and no bugs and hope no beachball it makes me cry sometimes….

By: Shticky

Shticky — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:42:29 +0000

I’d like to see more games included with Leopard. I’d also like to see many more time increment options for setting the wallpaper to cycle, i.e. 15 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec.

By: Zsombor Nagy

Zsombor Nagy — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:20:59 +0000

I like the feature in Mail very much when you mark something in an email then press Reply and Mail only quotes the marked lines. But if i mark multiple disconnected lines (with apple+click) and then press Reply only the first continous section is quoted.
It will be very good if i can define hotkeys for folders, couse I have multiple smart folders, and want to choose them with keyboard.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:50:06 +0000

For a release that will have to outwoo Vista comparison, I think there needs to be more than just core-animation and automated backup. The rest are just more fine tuning. Fine Spaces is a nice copy from unixworld. I think far more needs to be done. CoreAnim is under the hood stuff, Time Machine is basically integrated backup with Apple flair.
While I would not avocate iChat for Windows, I do think allowing more users to connect in. Otherwise it will die on a vine like USB2 has over Firewire. Backgrounds for iChat- its a gimmick.
OK so my wish list?
Really intelligent Apple-smart Auto-config to server depending in what your server is whether leopard server, Win2000 server or 2003server. That would make it easier to integrate to make it replace windows clients even if the idea of dumping the Mac server also.
IChat should be moved more towards iCommunicate with network agnostic integrated phone, VOIP and video
3D Finder – not sure what the answer is – Where is all that R+D work Apple spends , even if its an advanced option. Its just I want to be able to manage digital data better than the same desktop metaphor we have seen with the added spotlight innovation.
Where is the replacement for Appleworks – iWork is only half finished. Perhaps Apple should launch this as a seperate launch than allow it to be thrown in with the Leopard launch. I have great sympathy for the IWork development team, everyone wants an Office killer but Apple is wary of upsetting Microsoft by being too competitive.
Preview – why not allow plugs so we could get view Quark files or other file formats in one app. We could see preview open AutoCAD files etc.
Leopard Server, originally we were told this would be a great competitor for NT server users who wanted to upgrade. Now we see tools for better quicktime streaming….There is a demand for a competitor to the stealth app that is Exchange, There is no reason why Apple could not offer a competitor to Exchange and at least get some of the Mail server business if not the file/print.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:20:57 +0000

This may sounds really trivial but I hate it that I cannot open up a photo using Preview.app and scroll through the rest of the photos in that folder without opening up all of them.
Windows Preview has this basic feature and it makes a huge difference.

There is no way of quickly browsing images without using iPhoto, which is a pain sometimes.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:24:40 +0000

For Apple Mail to be generally not crap and live up to it’s potential. Namely…
• Attachments can’t be defined as anything other than ‘content-disposition:inline’. WTF?
• Better searching (actually being able to search for something within the body of an email would be nice)
• Better backup features (why can’t I save off multiple individual emails at once? Where’s the tools to backup the entire Mail Database?)
• Better handling of read receipts (for a start, where are they?)
• Would love to see features like those found in Mail Tags/Mail Act On within the application
• Rename the application to something unique (seems frivilous, but just pretend you’re looking to the web to troubleshoot something. Try Googleing ‘Mail email’, then compare that to the results for ‘Entourage email’)

On another note I would love to be able to define custom keys and values for metadata in SpotLight, and have (two way) access to hooks for that feature through AppleScript and the CLI.

How about the ability to PDF something out with hyperlinks/Cross-References from Word (plus other apps)?
Second the suggestion for underlining/highlighting in Preview.
Loving the suggestions on integration/workflow.

By: David

David — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:39:38 +0000

I’m betting there will be support in Preview for Microsoft’s new XPS document format. XPS is a similar to PDF but based on XML and ZIP. Microsoft needs cross-platform support for XPS so I’m guessing they assisted Apple.

By: dahui

dahui — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:39:06 +0000

concerning the workflow on a mac I’d love to have a speech-to-text solution. specially beeing german, and there is really no solution not even with external apps