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Allow Sidebar Text font-size to be bigger.
Sidebar text is too small, I usually squint to read the letters. The SIdebar text is not resizeable.
Make Sidebar text-size user controlled.
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Low
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Reorder the Finder Sidebar
This is more of a feature request,
but I'd like to be able to have 'Places' show before 'Devices' in the Finder Sidebar
So letting the user set it up as he pleases would be a nice option.
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Low
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Almost all settings in the System Preferences are missing an undo/revert function
When you change some parameters in the System Settings there is no way to undo.
There are some of them where you can find an "Revert" and "Save" function but once
you save it you cannot revert it. The revert button is (more...)
Add Undo / Revert option.
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Medium
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Safari: Provide the password assistant on web-account creation
The password assistant is a nice and easy to use feature of osx to create safe and rememberable passwords, but most users only see it while setting a user password.
On websites that require account creations it likely won't get used because
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Provide the password assistant on websites that require passwords to register and haven't already saved credentials. It could be shown/opened similar to the caps-lock warning in a password field for example.
Automatically detect the (more...)
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Low
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iTunes: add tracks in order
When importing from a CD tracks are added in order (track # order), but when importing from another location they are not. For example when getting music from Amazon, the tracks are added out of order.
Add tracks by track # order.
Medium
Medium
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Audio-MIDI-Setup: Move Audio settings to System Preferences
All audio preferences should be in System Preferences, not in an application in the utilities folder. Also its quite odd to configure 5.1 Soundcards in it. In Audio-MIDI-Setup you can set up multichannel/multiple sound-cards, midi devices, input/output (more...)
Move all audio preferences where they belong, to the System Preferences.
Make it easier to configure multichannel soundcards.
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Low
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Show windows from the same app in different spaces as different apps
If you have a finder window in Space 1 and a Finder window in Space 2, you will never know what Space Cmd-Tabbing will bring you into.
Also, there is no way to switch between windows in the same app if theey are in two or more different (more...)
Present windows from the same app on two different spaces as two different apps with the space number attached
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Keyboard selection support
Shift + Option + {arrow, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down} should work for navigating through text, folders, the Finder window, etc.
For example, when selecting files to move, Shift + Option + Page Down should select all files on each screen (more...)
Add more support for keyboard selection using these key combinations. See Windows XP, Vista, etc.
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Medium
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'Date deleted' column in Trash
There should be a 'date deleted' column in the Trash so that you can find easily what you have recently deleted.
It's a pain in the ass if you need a file you put into the Trash last week, but can't remember its name. (more...)
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Low
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Click-Through: no consistent behaviour
If you click on a file in an inactive Finder window then the file gets selected. A click on a toolbar icon doesn't do anything. iCal reacts the same way. But Safari and Mail have no click-through. If Mail is inactive, you can't select a different (more...)
Either completly deactivate click through for all apps or make it the default for all apps.
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Low
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Customizable "Show item info" in Finder.
Show item info of Icon View in Finder is rather limited, it should be able to show the date last modified and created, and other information like size.
Allow a drop down list to customize "Show item info" in Icon View.
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Medium
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Safari - Organize Favorites by Alphabetically
Organize multiple bookmarks in alphabetically it's a annoying task.
Just make the column button work.
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Safari Bookmarks bar
When you click a 'folder' (set of bookmarks) in the 'Bookmarks bar' you can't switch between various 'folders' by hovering like you do with the apple menu bar, you have to click each time to get the list of bookmarks.
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Medium
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Possibility to separate spaces in dual monitor mode
When listening to music I put iTunes on my laptop screen and start working on my external monitor. When switching to another space my laptop screen goes to another space as well.
Add the possibility to detach the spaces of a laptop and external screen.
Medium
Medium
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Pages: Enable copy for selected text of a given style
There is an option in Pages which enables you to select all uses of a given style (see attached screenshot). Unfortunately one can't do anything with this selected text. Would be nice to be able to copy this selection.
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Medium
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