Please fix the dumpster fire that is AppKit! Doing a grep for angry words in my source code and commits reminded me of some traumas over the years…<p>* Core Data's generated classes are broken for one-to-many relationships<p>* NSTableView is a total mess. Lots of things don't work quite right. For example, calculating the correct height for a row of wrapped text is nearly impossible without hackily adding a few points here and there.<p>* In Metal, constant buffers over 64k get silently truncated on some GPUs.<p>* MTKView is half-baked. Resizing it stretches the window's contents, for example. If you don't use layers it overlaps the window's rounded corners. If you do enable layers, the framerate drops by half.<p>* The one field editor per window hack breaks expectations every time I use it. It should be done away with.<p>* NSTitlebarAccessoryViewController is officially supported but was never documented and forces the entire window to use auto layout<p>Please don't add any features. Just fix the garbage fire you already have rather than throwing more garbage on it.
Topping my wishlist would be for Apple to not have to put every product in the same "fashion bauble" category and consider pro, workhorse computers to be a different type of thing with different criteria. Both the Mac Pro and the MacBOOK Pro should be treated as workhorses, not show horses, and optimized for practical usefulness. Less emphasis on looking thinner and more fashionable and more on keyboards that feel great and go on working just fine when splashed with bacon & eggs, thrown in a backpack, dragged around on a desert adventure, lots of convenient connectors, maxed out on battery power, useful buttons instead of gimmicky touchbar, and so on.<p>My wish would be that actual <i>computer</i> users could look forward with excitement, the way we used to, at what new improvements were about to become available rather than dreading what they'll "courageously" take away next.
How about an iTunes experience that doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge.<p>I can't name a single more consistently infuriating piece of software to interact with. It's been horrible as long as it has existed, without fail.<p>On second thought, perhaps its stalwart consistency as one of the most unusable applications in the history of consumer software is one of the few constants in this fast changing world. Perhaps its flawed nature is meant to remind us all of our own deep imperfections.<p>God I hate iTunes.
> True Color and hyperlink support in the Terminal app<p>Why? Isn’t iTerm better in every imaginable way?<p>> Markdown support in the Notes app. Including code blocks and syntax highlighting.<p>1) there’s plenty of good apps (better than Notes.app anyway) that support this already<p>2) I’d argue <1% of Mac owners know of Markdown, let alone use it. Sure, <i>we</i> both do, but I’d rather them focus on the important bits (stability/performance/etc) and leave the niche app features to the ecosystem.
> No More iTunes!<p>(Desktop) iTunes is the way it is in order to present a unified, familiar experience between the macOS <i>and Windows</i> iTunes desktop apps.<p>In Windows, iTunes is essentially "just enough macOS to manage an iOS device"—with every disparate responsibility that management entails all smushed together. (It's been this way since it was iPods that were being managed.) And macOS iTunes is the same codebase(!) as Windows iTunes, so it's not like that codebase is somehow going to compile as eight apps with their own UIs on macOS, vs. one on Windows. It's going to look, and work, on macOS as it does on Windows.
I want customizable "later/snooze" options for reminders/calendar notifications. Specifically, I want a "Snooze until tonight" or "Snooze until I get home".<p>… Mostly when I tell Siri to remind me to do something and she records the wrong time and the reminder comes up at 2pm at work instead of 8pm like I tried to record it.
> Remove old junk like the Dashboard and DVD Player apps.<p>Should just include those the app store as well.<p>Not mentioned are the many years old bugs with multi displays and networking.<p>I just want Apple to take a year and really fix all the core problems they've introduced. No more new features until the existing stuff works!
I’ll be happy if the only thing that ships with 10.14 is a bugfix for the Preview.app. It amazes me that they have not yet unfucked the PDF rendering with a minor release. It amazes me even more, that this issue is not present on the linked wishlist. Do people not view PDFs on their Macs?
Can you just include a little checkbox in the mouse settings that lets me reverse mouse scroll independently from the touch pad's two-finger scroll without having to pay for an app?<p>That'd be swell.
It's abundantly clear to me that Apple is not interested in improving the desktop experience. They simply want to show some shiny new features, and to continue to reduce the dimensions and weight of their laptops (even at the cost of usability). At this point I am hoping for a new unix-based alternative to windows with the same level of stability and usability as macOS. Long gone are the days where I would expect Apple to do what so many of us want with the operating system.
Realistically, all I want are performance and stability improvements.<p>Unrealistically, there are number of relatively simple things Apple could do to improve the hackintosh experience.
How about the <i>option</i> to remove the dock entirely? Spotlight and Launchpad are preferable alternatives for opening apps, Mission Control works way better for switching between apps, and the list of running apps can be stuffed into the top menu with a pulldown list that can display diagnostic info and give a nice way to switch-to or force quit.<p>I hide the dock and keep it off to the side, as I find it more annoying than useful.
They could fix the free disk space indicator. Mine goes up and down between 50GB and 200GB. I know this is because of local snapshots and supposedly it will clean up space as needed but I have no idea how much space is exactly available to me. Some versions ago the free space indicator was accurate. When you emptied the trash free space went up exactly by the amount of deleted files. Now it doesn't change at all.
My developer wish would be a redo of the Keychain Services API. <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/keychain_services?language=objc" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/keychain_...</a>
I would love the ability to customize the location of notifications so that I can set them on the bottom right corner instead of having them fixed to the upper right. Really hate how calendar notifications can hide my chrome extensions and many other things.
Still hoping for some kind of integration between iPad + Pencil and macOS. (I think it was vaguely rumored last year.) It would be so amazing for art. Not holding my breath, though.