Aqua Taskforce

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)

Keyboard support in finder for selecting multiple, if seperate, files

Submitted by tomerb on August 20, 2008 to Usability

Problem: Without using the mouse at all: other than holding down shift while pressing the arrow keys, there's no option of selecting multiple files in finder.

Solution: In Windows, holding CTRL while moving leaves the selection intact, and pressing SPACEBAR adds to the selection.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

A small visual indication that an application is minimized in CMD-Tab view

Submitted by tomerb on August 14, 2008 to Usability

Problem: when you switch between applications using CMD-Tab, it would be nice to have a small visual indication that the app you're switching to is minimized, so that you might be able to press the option key to maximize it. (Once you switched to it, it's (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

Built-in Zip file viewer

Submitted by tomerb on August 13, 2008 to Usability

Problem: OK, we have a built-in movie editor, but not a compressed file viewer?
GUI for selectively extracting files is very useful!

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(7 comments)

Resize windows from all edges

Submitted by tomerb on August 13, 2008 to Usability

Problem: Why be able to resize only from the bottom right corner?

Solution: It's much more natural to be able to drag any perimeter pixel of the window to indicate your intention to resize.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(7 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)

Saving the original location info for files in Trash

Submitted by tomerb on August 10, 2008 to Usability

Problem: When trying to restore files deleted to the Trash, the information about the original location of the file, maybe as an additional column in the Trash folder view, could have been very helpful.
With such info, It would have been much easier to (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)