Comments on: Suggestions for OS X improvements

By: juanmi

juanmi — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:31:26 +0000

hi! maybe you guys thought of this already. I would enjoy very much a “Save as” click-and-drag interface. I have wasted hours navigating through my system to the destination folder when wanting to save a file while having the destination folder (paradoxically) open as a window on my screen. I would like to be able to drag my save action to that window area. Does this make sense?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:18:10 +0000

thinking about removing the hierarchial file system. what would be replacing it? in ilife apps they have all the file/music/photos in a list that is grouped together.
iphoto, ignoring the HUGE catalogue that is the library, you place the photos in events (folders) with each event containing photos of your choice.
iTunes, ignoring the HUGE catalogue that is the library, you set up playlists (folders) with each group containing music of your choice. this of course works for movies/podcasts/tv shows/ etc. but there is no way to seperate out the different media. something a hierarchial file system could fix by having another layer of folders ontop of that. you know that panel on the left, that has the library folder, store folder, and playlists? change this panel so that it seperates the different forms of media. also with this panel, what does it look like? the panel on the left of the finder? BINGO!
if you look at any app, it’s always the same, hierarchial file systems are used because they are logical and easy to use, they are only difficult when an amatuer organizes one. having to drill down is wrong… yes, and an amatuer makes a hierarchial file system this way because they haven’t thought about it before hand.
what would you suggest putting in Pages for your files. something like itunes? it’s already in finder. it’s just files of the same format are grouped together in apps, and in finder its up to the user to organize them. easy to do if you think about how you set out your documents folder. hey, if it makes it easier call it a group or something. try organizing your folders, it’ll make your entire filing experience easier. especially with the columns view, just try setting it up so that all files can be accessed within two levels of the Documents folder.

ok, enough rambling. wish list for finder? Tags. the reason its so easy in itunes to find a song in the 60gb library is because you can search absolutely any element of a song. tags would give you those elements in finder, also would require an upgrade to spotlight.
but if you think about it, tags is just having the hierarchial file system upside down, you see all the files, and you go to the files to have tags, and a group of files with the same tag, is like having a folder with the files in it.

in my opinion, you can work with either, and work well, as long as you think about how you set it out.

as for the file system of windows? umm… no! in finder you have all the folders you need on the left, everything you need regardless whether your a consumer or prosumer (i don’t think it’s good for a IT tech of any sort because its so hard to get down to the core of the system). in windows, you have the links to the folders all over your computer, you have some on the desktop, some in start menu, some in My Computer. do you not notice how they change this to reflect the finder in vista?

By: Mark O'Henly

Mark O'Henly — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:42:59 +0000

Easy tag selection from the “File Save As” dialog box for inclusion in the Spotlight Comments field to aid in searching. You would select (click) from a list of previously used tags and/or add new tags. Some users would prefer tags so as to avoid complicated folder hierarchies. Please!

By: Tiger's Fang

Tiger's Fang — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:16:24 +0000

More gestures!!! For example, don’t we all lose the cursor when flipping between apps? I end up hitting cmmd-Z and then alt-cmmd-Z just to see where I was last (sometimes the cursor is beyond the scrolling area). How about a tablet or mouse gesture that would identify the cursor?

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:17:59 +0000

In response to your idea of removing folder hierarchies in Finder:

I think that’s a great idea for amateur users but that wouldn’t work for me. I simply have too many files that I need to keep organized in some way. For example, I’m a part time photographer and I have thousands upon thousands of digital images. If they’re all in a little cluster and I open Photoshop, it’s going to be impossible to find the photo I want if there’s no way to organize them into smaller clusters (folders!). I would have the same problem with documents. It’s an interesting concept though.

By: Marcelo R. Lopez, Jr.

Marcelo R. Lopez, Jr. — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:57:07 +0000

Make Bluetooth work properly. Since the switch to Leopard, it simply hasn’t worked either properly or consistently. If Snow Leopard is a huge stabilization release, then I would hope that the area of Bluetooth ( and drivers in general ) have a huge focus placed upon them. When you can’t properly pair a smartphone to your MPB, you know there’s something not right.

Keep up the good work.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:04:33 +0000

just added mine too, ironically i left a typo in it…

By: Iestyn

Iestyn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:17:55 +0000

I’ll leave a suggestion on the Apple site now. If anybody else wants to here’s the link to leave feedback for all the Apple products http://www.apple.com/feedback/

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:13:24 +0000

ah gotcha- yer absolutely right, there should be an option in those international prefs to automatically have the os spellchecker switch to the chosen input language. it’s an excellent idea and might be easy for apple to implement. i believe apple has some sort of suggestion form for feature requests… there’s also the apple forums – if apple don’t hear u, some shareware developer might

By: Iestyn

Iestyn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:05:26 +0000

Thanks for leaving the comment jimmy, but I have tried the international prefs. If you choose the Spanish flag and open up Textedit or Pages as I did it still thinks you want to type in English. If Apple could sort this out so that whatever flag you have selected in the menubar is the language that you wish to type and want the spellcheck to switch to it would be great. I choose the Welsh flag as default as it alters the keyboard slightly so that it allows me to create accents easily.
Please Apple, easy language switching and a built in Welsh spellchecker for 10.6.