Aqua Taskforce

Time Machine: Improve backup/restore Performance

Submitted by Flauchhaus on March 17, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Backing up: Time Machine takes way too much time to back up files as small as 20MB and while the backup process is running it uses quite much CPU usage so if the user runs an app/game it slows down quite significantly. The beginning and ending of backups (more...)

Solution: Improve backup/restore Performance. Don't just back up files every hour - back them up "live" as they change. Run the backup process with lower HDD/CPU priority so it doesn't slow down the running system/apps/games.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

(3 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
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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)

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)

Quicklook: Copy text out of Quicklook text previews

Submitted by Flauchhaus on August 14, 2008 to Annoyance

Problem: Often users have to copy a small text passage (phone number for example) from a document. The user can preview documents with Quicklook but they have to open the main program to just copy text off the document. This is especially annoying when the main (more...)

Solution: Make text in Quicklook select- and copyable.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Mail: Conversation View in threaded mail summary

Submitted by Flauchhaus on November 30, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Mail allows viewing mails in threads but only shows a summary of the conversation (subject, date, sender) on the summary mail - but not the content of the mails. To view the content of the mails every mail still has to be opened one after another.

Solution: If "Organise by Thread" is enabled, the mail summary of the threaded mails should be improved by a Conversation View. If the mails are very huge or the conversation is very long, older mails automatically should collapse (similar to gmail).

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Lion

Spotlight Feature request: Google and URL launcher

Submitted by Flauchhaus on January 31, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Feature request: It would be nice to have Google (or other search-engines) integrated into the Spotlight menu. Also it would be nice to open URLs and connect to servers from Spotlight menu even if there is no bookmark for it.

There is (more...)

Solution: # Integrate Google search results into the spotlight menu.
The Spotlight plugin should be manageable like any other in the Spotlight preferences.
# Enable opening URLs and a "Connect to server" function when the user enters smb://x.x.x.x (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)