OSX mature you say ? are you on marketing drugs ? OSX has got bugs unfixed that were in the first version, mature only in the sense that it has embedded fetal bugs in its geriatric corpse, im not interested in a load of social networking flaff, or third party clone app ripoff (growl kicked in teeth) or bullshit tasks management being bundled into the os before they fix the bugs ? or weak sauce ios features bundled in, so far this looks like a lazy update, polish the bugs out of this operating system to within an inch of its life first before adding features.
1: no ability to set half the important settings except from a command line terminal ie, how about a gui to set umasks so collaborative working with files and new file created permissions isnt a nightmare ? and make it so its clear what has control or oerides ACL’s or POSIX ? (was possible in OS9)
2: the ability to create groups of users on the client version ? (was possible in OS9)
3: to be honest merge server and client versions, so that any version can work as a server, least that way I have access to the feature set I may need on any machine.
3b : Make it possible to logon onto different volumes with different permisions on the same machine, with different logins to that machine for each volume ? At he moment you only seems to be able to use one login to one machine ? third party apps can probably resolve this ?
4 Resolve and merge or clarify the two permissions systems that seem to be running concurrently in OSX ? POSIX, ACLS that conflict and overide eack other, write a proper “enclosed folders” permissioning system such that I can trust the finder rather than resorting to batchmod ?
5: make it so that guest access can be fully turned off from a gui without resorting to a command line ?
6: make it so that spotlight indexing is properly controllable volume to volume from a gui ? without the user of third party apps :
7: make it so that there is some indicator as to how well indexed and when last indexed a volume is, very often i find search cant find files that are in fact theyre, give some feedback as to when indexing is occurring, and some control over it from a gui.
8: Make Time machine properly controllable, ie specify what to include in a backup rather than what to exclude ? and scheduling … just more controls not less ?
9: and specify depth and versioning of the backup by specifying an allowed portion of the volume to be used and duration of extra time allowed in the backup schedule for the versioning depth that time machine likes to backup. As at the moment its way too easy for time machine to start using crippling amounts of space way too quickly and then fail at backing up successfully, store the backup in an open format such that if a backup were to be corrupted partially or fail in some way that it would not be difficult to unravel.
10: make various versions of mac os x work with each other, more cleanly form a networking perspective ie 10.4 to 10.6 for instance ?
11 make it so that there are an extra set of advanced GUI features that can be turned on in the OS to set more obscure preferences for the advanced user.
12: and where the hell is true resolution independent interface we were promised in snow leopard ? ie not just scaling of the screen but realtime scaling redraw of interface elements in perfectly aliased vector form to allow for smooth font size scaling of the entire interface within the screen boundary, from a single slider whilst at the same time retaining the layout integrity, difficult but important ? Half the old eyesight users of macdom would die for this, if it was implemented well.
13 : A way to export a system wide preference settings file to load/share onto other machines so that preference harmonisation system wide can be imposed on several machines ? yes one can clone entire Os’s installs and run servers with network user folder etc or with third party apps but its not very fast from a data movement perspective or intuitive.
14 : A new HCI toolbox rule to provide as much mac gui control of the OS as possible, I left DOS behind along time ago, the user should not have to resort to terminal or a command line to acheive ordinary settings tasks ?
15 : re-write and structure mac os x Mail so its not the insane disk access hog it appears to be at the slightest movement of large amounts of emails ? the current structure seems inefficient ?
16: give the OS a gentle but firm way of fulling closing apps that are left open such that scheduled shutdowns are not interupted by on screen dialogs from apps ? interface select which backup apps slash activity would be excluded form this forced shutdown, as an administrator this would be good.
17: when you turn permissions completely off on a drive they stay OFF ? rather than turning themselves back on ?