Official 10.7 Lion Thread...

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So what is your predictions, expectations, wishlist ect. for the soon to be 10.7?

For one i'm looking forward to the "full screen mode" in the apps. especially in Safari.


...i wonder what the Finder would be like in full screen... :P
 
Wishlist:

  • TRIM support for SSD - I find it slightly bizarre that Apple has been pushing SSDs harder and longer than most other manufacturers, yet their OS doesn't support TRIM :confused:
  • TLS support for Mail.app - Again, bizarre. It was there in 10.4 Tiger. For some reason Apple removed it in 10.5.
  • Blu-Ray playback support.
  • ISCSI support - This was in the 10.6 developer builds, but was removed in the final build
  • OpenVPN support - for the iPhone too.
 
Lion sure looks promising, after Snow Leopard, which had few features, I'm thinking this will be another "features" release.
macboer said:
So what is your predictions, expectations, wishlist ect. for the soon to be 10.7?

For one i'm looking forward to the "full screen mode" in the apps. especially in Safari.

...i wonder what the Finder would be like in full screen... :P
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There's a plugin called Glims which is awesome for Safari - enables full screen mode, custom search engines and many other things. I'm sure if Apple did a full screen it would look better but just saying...
 
Sputnik said:
I would be happy with a major revamp for Finder.
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A replacement would be even better.

System wide font configuration would be really nice.

More mouse configuration options would also be cool so people can change the stupid acceleration curve.

But knowing Apple's dumb it down & lock it down mentality the above ain't gonna happen.
 
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/

AppStore ('tho we have that already), Launchpad with Folders (to access apps), full screen apps and Mission Control (to see whats running on your Mac) highlighted so far...
 
Synaesthesia said:
Lion sure looks promising, after Snow Leopard, which had few features, I'm thinking this will be another "features" release.

There's a plugin called Glims which is awesome for Safari - enables full screen mode, custom search engines and many other things. I'm sure if Apple did a full screen it would look better but just saying...
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i agree. thanks for the link. will check it out but doubt that i will install it. i'm using chrome at the moment and the only thing i miss from safari is the READER. seems like there are "readers" for Chrome but you need to pay for it and it suck in comparison.
 
macboer said:
i agree. thanks for the link. will check it out but doubt that i will install it. i'm using chrome at the moment and the only thing i miss from safari is the READER. seems like there are "readers" for Chrome but you need to pay for it and it suck in comparison.
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Try out readibility - it's a bookmarklet, works really nicely.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I seriously hope it's more than that.

'nuff said

Uhm, icons and folders on our desktops? We have that already too.

F3 with more eyecandy?
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i surely hope so too. i don't know wtf or htf one would use that launchpad...
 
Aye. Icons on the desktop is only useful for opening my first appliction. After that, they're hidden behind that application. I generally have 5-6 things running, at least. Minimising everying when I want to open something else is too much of a hassle. That's what the dock is for.
 
ponder said:
More mouse configuration options would also be cool so people can change the stupid acceleration curve.
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oh my god, that has got to be the biggest annoyance I have with OSX.... in fact, I cant think of any other....
 
Three more requests:

1. Compression for the suspend-to-disc RAM image. I realise this don't matter to most people, but if you happen to use a hard drive with hardware encryption (like the Seagate FDE models) you lose the ability to do suspend-to-ram. This is because OSX doesn't have a way to provide the drive with the passphrase. And even if you don't use full disc encryption, OSX, by default does both suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disc. This is why, you can open the lid and it comes up immediately, but if you closed the lid and take out the battery, you can still resume but just slower. As RAM sizes grow, it takes longer and longer to write that image out to disc. My 6GB RAM already takes about a minute, i.e. a minute before the drive starts spinning and I can throw it in my backpack.

2. Support for full disc encryption - both in software and with hardware devices like the Seagate FDE drives. This means adding the hooks necessary to send the passphrase to the drive (both from the OpenFirmware and from OSX). This will allow suspend-to-ram with encrypted drives, and allow us to use such drives without 3rd party software. For what it's worth, the Sandforce SF-1200 and SF-1500 both offer 128bit AES encryption.

3. Support for Intel's AES-NI extensions. This gives you hardware accelerated AES encryption/decryption, which would make something like FileVault perform like it should.
 
I would love to see some kind of resolution independence. i.e. when you scroll and hold Ctrl it shouldn't get all blurry. ;)
 
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