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frankie's Journal: X Things Wrong with OS X

Journal by frankie
OS X 10.1 and higher are clearly superior (IMO) to classic MacOS, but ... there are ten improvements I'd like to see before Apple hits us with another $$$ upgrade:
  1. Location Location Location (Manager):
    Location Manager was NOT just for network settings. It managed startup items (you could invoke LM during bootup, either by default or with a hotkey), time zone, default printer, etc. Serious Mac road warriors miss LM badly.
  2. Mt Rainier CD support:
    Apple was right to ditch the floppy drive, but wrong to leave us without a replacement. DiscBurner isn't good enough; if you want to change a CD you have to erase the whole thing. Mt Rainier is mad crazy useful, it's innovative in the true Apple style, and it's an open standard.
  3. Move Connect to Server... to /Network:
    What the hell is the point of /Network in the Finder if not to display available network items? The live server list logically belongs there, and would increase usability tremendously.
  4. Move Print Center to /Network:
    Similarly, printers should be treated as files in the true Unix fashion. Want a Desktop Printer? Just drag an alias. Sadly, the Printers folder in Windows is more user-friendly than either Chooser or Print Center.
  5. Stupid stupid Mount bugs :
    If a server goes away before you manually unmount it: "Finder locked up, and even [force] quitting had no effect. Then the dock died. I finally wound up rebooting." Does this sound too familiar?
  6. Stupid stupid Event bugs:
    "There's a bug in 10.* which can cause process stalls during Apple Event activity; this bug should be fixed in a future OS update. That will resolve any problems which are specifically related to the Apple Event exchange between Dreamweaver and BBEdit."
    Rich Siegel
    Bare Bones Software, Inc.
  7. Stupid stupid restrictions on GUI tweaking :
    "for Apple to go out of its way--to actually expend developer effort--to stop these third party developers, while still failing to provide a supported alternative, is incredibly foolish."
    John Siracusa
    ars technica
  8. Quartz should use PDF v1.4 :
    DisplayPDF isn't bad, but it has known limitations. Imagine if OS X could natively edit PDFs the way MacDraw worked with good old PICTs.
  9. Disk Utility should defrag:
    As long as we use HFS, we need to rebuild the directories. I'm glad TechTool and DiskWarrior exist, but why isn't this in the OS already?
  10. scanner and printer support:
    OS X drivers for your old peripherals, anyone? Why do I have to buy VueScan (or a new scanner)? Also, adding Gimp-Print to the default install is a no-brainer.
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