Full-screen: when it makes sense
Lion ’s introduction offull - CRT screen appsreflects some distinctive Apple inventiveness . But the effectuation still feels like a 1.0 dismission ( which , of course of study , it is ) . Support for multi - monitor setup is laughably poor : Put an app in full - screen modal value , and your other monitors merely show the now - ubiquitous linen paper background . In the next iteration of 10.7 , I ’d much rather see an adjacent workspace on my other display .
Another welcome improvement would be an option to enable a slim Dock and menu stripe while still in full - screen door modal value . I ’d estimate that such a compromise would be profanation to the Apple squad that championed full - screen apps in the first place : It ’s not really full - screen if such interface accoutrement are still on the screen , too . But I ca n’t quite work full - screen apps into my Mac computing routine ; they embody the worst facet of multitasking on the iPad , and push aside the benefit that the Mac can bid : For example , I want to see my Dock badges update when newfangled emails and IMs do in , without needing to bulk large over the Dock . One potential solution would be to implement iOS 5 ’s promised floating banner notice in Lion . In that case , update that would commonly only increment a Dock icon counter would trigger a streamer apprisal when the Dock was n’t visible.—Lex Friedman
Get Mission Control under control
While Mission Control is does a squeamish job of unify the Exposé and Spaces features from Snow Leopard , it could still be better . For illustration , if you could rename your extra background ( or else of simply Desktop 2 and Desktop 3 ) , that would make it a lot gentle to pilot your workspaces . And , while we ’re at it , I ’d love to be able-bodied to reorder desktops and full - silver screen apps by dragging and neglect them . Plus , while you’re able to attribute an app to special desktop , it would be nice to be able to operate spaces and full - screen apps in a finicky order of magnitude — so , for deterrent example , full - concealment Mail would always be directly to the rightfulness of my primary desktop . This , plus better multiple monitor lizard financial support ( see elsewhere ) would go a tenacious way toward delivering the kind of ascendancy that Mission Control seems to promise.—Dan Moren
Get a handle on permissions
Try drag the Chess program from the Applications folder to the Trash and you ’ll be presented with a message that reads “ ‘ Chess ’ ca n’t be modified or delete because it ’s required by Mac OS X. ” Really ? It ’s that important to Apple that I have the Game of B. B. King planted on my Mac ? No . What ’s happened is that Apple has turn a sterner eye toward permit — making it more unmanageable for unwary users to do thing that they should n’t , including tossing out diligence . While this makes sense for masses who ’ve never touched a Mac before , it ’s plaguey for those who require greater ascendency over their Macs.—Christopher Breen
Correct auto-correct
Lion ’s new iOS - mode auto - fudge factor does n’t figure out everywhere . Many apps — including some of Apple ’s own — don’t seem to stomach it at all : Stickies and iChat do n’t ; TextEdit and Mail do . Support across third - political party apps seems as haphazard . I can either rely on auto - correct or not bank on motorcar - right , but the unpredictable mix - and - match overture is the worst of both worlds : I terminate up edit an auto - correctedtheunnecessarily , while failing to fix a typo’dtehthat I expected the Mac to catch . Apple needs to follow up auto - correction universally.—Lex Friedman
Scrolling that’s natural for each device
I ’m okay with Apple ’s determination to overrule the Mac ’s traditional scroll behaviour in Lion . With so - anticipate Natural Scrolling , content on the Mac follows your finger’s breadth : Scroll up , and the content on your cover moves up , too . It makes sense — though it takes a catamenia of adjustment — on a multitouch remark gadget like a trackpad or Magic Mouse . It feels less reasonable , however , when you ’re navigating with a curl roulette wheel .
alas , Lion allows you only to set scroll behaviour one way or the other across the display panel . In 10.7.1 , Apple should instead permit you to customize that preference for each input machine , so that your trackpad scroll one fashion , and your scroll wheel mouse , the other.—Lex Milton Friedman
Make your own gestures
One of the lesser - hyped features add up in iOS 5 is the ability to produce custom quiver patterns for unlike notifications . You tapdance out the pattern you need and assign to a impinging , and our customs vibration is triggered when that person calls .
Apple could follow through a like approach for create customized finger gestures in Lion . My rich fingers feel foolish when they try 10.7 ’s quarter round - and - three - fingers - reverse - touch for discover the desktop ; I ’d prefer to customise the gesture required — maybe a circular swipe , or perhaps just a four - finger swipe down , since I do n’t care about or apply App Exposé . Right now , Lion hard - code specific gestures to specific actions with a take - it - or - allow for - it attitude . A little more flexibility on Apple ’s part could help those of us whose finger have a lilliputian less.—Lex Friedman
Greater support for media files
Apple is clearly fond of the AAC audio- and H.264 telecasting format . But it ’s sentence the company cover a wide assortment of audio and TV file . On the audio front , high - resolution Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files are commonly found on the Web , yet iTunes and QuickTime sprain a unreasoning eye to them . In regard to video , browse that same Web and you ’ll observe various flavors of .avi file , which play natively on Windows microcomputer but not on the Mac . macintosh user can play many of these file data formatting by downloading and install thePerian QuickTime components , so we know support is possible . Would n’t it be nice if that musical accompaniment was build in?—Christopher Breen
