My wishful thinking for 10.6:

- Better interactions between other appliances, specifically game consoles. If OSX aren't going to compete with the game platforms, work with one of the existing manufacturers to enhance each other's space. Somehow allow me to run a console through an iMac's screen :P
- Remake the Finder to be more along the lines of Leap. Also, through in Hazel-like file management underneath the Finder.
- Use tags in tandem with hypertext, and make libraries of hypertext/tags easily shareable with others.
- Get TV-tuner and EPG support into Frontrow.
- As I read somewhere else, allow Spaces to be re-oriented into a task/workflow system. 10.5.3 recently enabled Spaces to start down this path, now formalize it by allowing Spaces to be given task-based names and backgrounds ('My Photo Studio', 'My Journal', 'Admin Tools'). Allow me to configure a Space individually to others - ie. My Admin Tools space automatically starts with a three terminals and a finder tiled, and no Dock; my studio space has a finder, and a dock with iPhoto, Aperture and Photoshop Elements on it.

Simple: reliability.

Honestly, I own four Macs (G4 Mini, Intel C2D Mini, Macbook and Macbook Air) and they're all flaky as all hell.

My son's G4 is out of commission due to the 10.5.3 update hosing it (and I'm not alone). The Macbook took two goes to get it installed (should've been a warning sign...) , And my MBA still isn't behaving itself (Lock Screen, doesn't).

Admittedly I'm asking for a lot - but I also run a couple of Linux boxes, and in comparison OS X is a precarious beast - one sneeze and you're stuffed. I can't imagine how your average non-single-user-mode-able, non-firewire-clone-wielding user gets by (must be lots of re-installs).

Before you respond, go have a look at your console logs and see how many errors and warnings are thrown by normal "business as usual".

(and no, I'm not about to toss the Macs - they're flaky but they have their attractions)

Ben

I'm glad that smiley appeared at the end there.

I've been a senior Linux/UNIX sysadmin for 7 years, with another 5 years of junior stuff before that. My life *is* the command line. I don't think a day goes by when I hear someone say "why don't they just make a simple GUI tool that does that?".

A hint for those who think the same: there's not enough disk space on the planet to hold all the "simple GUI tools" needed to replace the infinite combinations and permutations of tasks the command line can achieve.

Do not fear the command line! Even if you only know and use 5 commands, that's 5 more tricks you know than the person sitting next to you.

[quote=entropy;514695]I expect:

• ZFS file system

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Apple - Server - Mac OS X Leopard - Snow Leopard

Your wish is Apple's command. Or so I heard. From some guy.

PowerPC support!

[quote=astr0b0y;523469]ZFS is great, would be nice to see it in the client OS too rather than just the Server. I guess ZFS *is* a server-oriented feature anyway, though, so its understandable, but for a geek like me i'd run it on my workstation no worries.

Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Snow Leopard

Anyone know if ZFS is a bootable file system for 10.6 server? I'd hope they could do head-to-toe ZFS, and not half-do the job be relegating it to data store drives only.

Drop PowerPC support.

... oh and finder to not be such hard work!

Why? What is costing you to have PPC support?

Are you being humorous, or are you just a mean person?

Playing devil's advocate for a moment, reducing the architecture footprint does make for faster development of the current system, and fewer restrictions when adding new features.

With that said, OSX will stay on PPC at least internally for some time (given that the shared code base is present in parts of the iPod and iPhone, which are both PPC). But all the same, dropping PPC support means that internal builds can catch up at leisure, while builds for the public customers can move ahead quicker without all the regression testing needed for a whole other architecture.

Note that I am a PPC user, and hope PPC support stays for a while longer. But that doesn't change the fact that I understand dropping support for it means seeing MacOSX on the whole move forward a little faster.

Ditto. I'm so over the mouse. It was cool back in 1984 but the novelty has worn off... no matter how many buttons you put on them.

I don't want to see touch screen stuff in Snow Leopard. I like my screen being clean and clear, not covered in 'orrible finger prints etc. Multi Touch is perfect for smaller, handheld systems but do you really want to be staring at a screen full of marks when you are watching a movie and the screen goes black?

No thank you.

Give me all Apple Applications in True 64bit form and rip all the PPC fluff from them. Are you aware that if you open up Activity Monitor and sort by Kind it shows that there are only 2 64 bit processes running on Leopard? That's with Safari 4.0, Aperture 2.1, iPhoto (current), Mail, iTunes, Quicktime, DVD, EyeTV, Calculator, and finally Numbers all open.

Sometimes you've just got to prune the Apple tree, you get a much nicer crop shortly afterwards.

A couple of things have just occurred to me that will never happen, but that I'd love none the less.

1. Mail integration with Safari:

Lets me put Mail.app into a tab with Safari saves having to switch application and keeps everything that is Internet core in one place (obviously this is just an option)

2. Mail integration of freaking Hotmail:

I can't get away from it. I send people emails with a different account and as long as the buggers have my long standing hotmail account they ALL reply to that. Drives me nucking futs. Will it be possible with the changes that are being done at Apple's end to get Exchange integration. With the changes MS have done to Hotmail that now closes down the HTTPplug in that allowed mail to access it I'm now stuck refreshing WindowsLiveHotmail window.