OS X 10.6 wish list

Please God let them get rid of "Metal" windows. If all windows had the new Mail.app look and feel, that would be great.

textedit should be improved -it definetely sucks.

I want windows to disappear in 10.6. Navigation and options should be entirely contextual, and be intelligent. Static folders do not have sense any more. Bring the power of Spotlight's smart folders to the entire OS.

read AND write NTFS volumes.

I would really like to see their file managment change. When I copy folder X into another folder that has a folder named X it should add those files to folder X, not erase it and move the new files into the new folder.

I want 10.5/10.6 to have a media center mode.

Good lot of ideas. I have added them to our OS X Wish List: http://www.daha.co.uk/daha/Apple_Mac_OS_X_Wish_List Feel free to modify and add other ideas. Cheers Daniel

i know, i know! how bout being able to change the blue aqua tint to pink. like pink aqua. pink everything. now that is a marketing feature! i can just see MacWorld San Fran. steve jobs: "The World is Pink"

- Apple should definitely integrate Mono (.NET support) into OS X. - Painless file share usage. I haven't moved up to Tiger yet, but in Panther I find I still have to remount AFP and Samba shares after I log in. Either bring back shares that are mounted by default, or group the ones I used somewhere handy in the Finder. (Putting aliases in the Startup Items doesn't count !) - For the Unix geeks, move from XFree86 to X.org's X if it hasn't been done already. - Little icons for users when user switching is turned on (yeah, there's third party hacks to do this, I know). - Option for the application name as the first menu item to be turned into an icon (has the cool property that Edit menu item will never move when you switch apps). - More use of IPv6 where possible. By 2007 it should also be possible to interoperate with Windows hosts that have link-local only addresses; there's an effort to merge Bonjour with MS's implemention of this stuff. - Integration of ssh-agent and Keychain. Again, there's a 3rd party utility to do this, but it belongs in Keychain. - Something like VNC but better (sound, performance). - Like others said, unify the GUI look and feel.

I'm all for being able to navigate inside pop-up dialog boxes by keyboard. Some allow you to select an option with command+the first letter of the choice, but many don't. Hitting tab, like windows on with the arrow key would really be appreciated. That's the only thing I've missed since switching 3 years ago.