Aqua Taskforce

iTunes 8 forgets view setting after selecting Show Browser

Submitted by Grey_Podder on September 13, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: In iTunes 8, you can show the browser view by going to View>Show Browser or pressing Command+B. When you do this while in Grid or Cover Flow view, iTunes changes to List View to show the Browser, as expected. However, once you hide the Browser (View>Hide (more...)

Solution: After accessing the Browser from Grid or Cover Flow view, return the view to its original state after hiding the Browser.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Address Book's "search for duplicates" needs to be more informative about conflicts

Submitted by Malteser on September 7, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: When Address Book finds duplicate contacts, it simply asks you whether or not you wish to merge the contacts, without any supplementary information. It's impossible to make a good decision based on that information.

Solution: Give it a dialogue similar to the sync conflicts dialog - we can see both the contacts, and if they are indeed identical, we can choose to merge them.

Severity: High

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

Cursor Resizing Needs Improvment

Submitted by jay314 on December 29, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: The default Leopard cursor is too small. Resizing the cursor using the Universal Access options results in an ugly, pixel-resized cursor.

Solution: Either improve cursor resizing or allow the user to set larger, custom cursors.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Keyboard switching between Finder windows while performing drag-and-drop

Submitted by tomerb on August 31, 2008 to Bug, Usability

Problem: Start dragging a file. Using CMD-tab you can easily switch between applications and drop it wherever you want.
However, you can't use CMD-` to switch between Finder windows while dragging!
This seems to be a bug. Try dragging text outside (more...)

Solution: Fix the bug!

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(6 comments)

Allow Sidebar Text font-size to be bigger.

Submitted by shashiprab on August 23, 2008 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: Sidebar text is too small, I usually squint to read the letters. The SIdebar text is not resizeable.

Solution: Make Sidebar text-size user controlled.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Reorder the Finder Sidebar

Submitted by brice on August 20, 2008 to Usability

Problem: 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.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Almost all settings in the System Preferences are missing an undo/revert function

Submitted by bastyani on August 25, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Solution: Add Undo / Revert option.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Safari: Provide the password assistant on web-account creation

Submitted by Flauchhaus on August 25, 2009 to Usability

Problem: 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
(more...)

Solution: 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...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

iTunes: add tracks in order

Submitted by migueld on December 14, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 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.

Solution: Add tracks by track # order.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(13 comments)

Audio-MIDI-Setup: Move Audio settings to System Preferences

Submitted by Flauchhaus on November 29, 2008 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Solution: Move all audio preferences where they belong, to the System Preferences.
Make it easier to configure multichannel soundcards.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Show windows from the same app in different spaces as different apps

Submitted by dmitriid on August 26, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Solution: Present windows from the same app on two different spaces as two different apps with the space number attached

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

Keyboard selection support

Submitted by dgood on August 23, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Solution: Add more support for keyboard selection using these key combinations. See Windows XP, Vista, etc.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

'Date deleted' column in Trash

Submitted by manujarvinen on February 20, 2010 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Click-Through: no consistent behaviour

Submitted by mojo2012 on May 12, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Solution: Either completly deactivate click through for all apps or make it the default for all apps.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Customizable "Show item info" in Finder.

Submitted by hoopla_punta on October 30, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 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.

Solution: Allow a drop down list to customize "Show item info" in Icon View.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed