Aqua Taskforce

Folder badges should be colored

Submitted by Uncommon on August 11, 2008 to Aesthetics, Icons, Usability

Problem: The new Leopard folder icons have flat, monochromatic badges that are hard to read and distinguish from each other, especially at small sizes.

Solution: Bring back the colored badges that were in every previous version of OS X.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Spaces: setting for desktop-switching speed

Submitted by mito on August 11, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: I love Spaces -- or, rather, I think I will love it when I can use it.

I switch between desktops the way most people switch between applications. I'm used to the transitions being instantaneous. The Spaces transition is too slow (more...)

Solution: Speed setting for this transition.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Possibility to resize windows till the bottom of the screen, even when the Dock is visible

Submitted by tomerb on August 11, 2008 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: When the Dock is visible, it effectively shrinks the available screen size for most applications. Safari and Firefox for example, can't be resized beyond the top margin of the dock.
This is also becomes an aesthetic issue in OS 10.5, where (more...)

Solution: This option should probably be optional, especially since some users have a very wide Dock which would hide window's status bars.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

Moving files in Finder displays a Copy dialog

Submitted by ion on August 10, 2008 to Aesthetics

Problem: When the user copies files in Finder then a window pops up. Its title says: Copy.
When the user moves files from one location to another then the windowtitle is still Copy.

Leopard has this "feature" as well.

Solution: Change the title of the window.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(11 comments)

Difficulty in identifying what your windows are.

Submitted by hoopla_punta on August 10, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: If you have alot of windows open (example in picture) it makes it very hard to identify what windows are what.

Of course you can use exposé, but there are sometimes you are having your mouse days and such.

And sometimes (more...)

Solution: Make individual windows more distinguishable from each other.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(14 comments)

Inconsistency in OSX Leopard Mac-Native Aqua Apps

Submitted by hoopla_punta on August 10, 2008 to Aesthetics, Icons

Problem: OSX Leopard has 3 "aqua styles" (kinda a made up theory):
First, the "grey buttons" which is found in Finder, Safari, iCal...
Next, the "bubble buttons" which is found in Mail and Preview
These two share (more...)

Solution: Change all the bubble style icons to grey icons.

or give the option to have Mac-Native Apps to have either grey or bubble icons.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(7 comments)