Mac OS X 10.5 Details?

Sounds good. Finder, as is, is pretty unnecessary.

How about a freaking package removal tool? A TON of apps are being installed with packages these days, and there is no way to remove them without some 3rd party hack or riskscrewing everything up.

How can OSX Claim to be the most advanced Operating System with simple things such as 'uninstallation of applications' missing? Come on!! PLEASE???

Sounds cool.

I think this kind of stuff really undercuts folks who complain that Apple "only cares about iPods" anymore. In a general fashion, the implementation and expansion of Spotlight owes a lot of inspiration to the search box in iTunes.

In a more specific sense, "I've got a lot of stuff that I need to be able to sift through quickly and easily" is one of the biggest challenges facing UI designers right now. Apple has spent a lot of time, money, and brainpower perfecting many universal concepts for this problem in designing and improving iTunes and the iPod. I have to think they'll be able to something cool applying this thinking to Finder.

I can't wait.

Sounds good. Finder, as is, is pretty unnecessary.

I wouldn't call it unnecessary...

However, compared to the Explorer of Windows, it's much less user friendly.

I love folders - what can I say, I think the virtual folder idea is completely pointless...

Even saving files on my Mac is sometimes difficult (choosing where to save them, that is...)

It would be great to have a "STOP" button next to stoplight during a search. Sometimes I see what I want immediately after starting a search, I try to click on it but instead I click on something else because it rapidly moved out of my way. If I could instead hit a 'stop' button then I could click on what I want right away. Of course if you hit the 'X' (cancel) button everything disappears. Instead you have to wait for it to grind, grind, grind until it's complete.

How about a freaking package removal tool? A TON of apps are being installed with packages these days, and there is no way to remove them without some 3rd party hack or riskscrewing everything up.

How can OSX Claim to be the most advanced Operating System with simple things such as 'uninstallation of applications' missing? Come on!! PLEASE???

TRUE THAT!

I removed iWork when I purchased my Mac cuz I didn't need it - now I want it, but it won't let me load it because it says that one or more 'files associated with iWork' remain on my computer....

Spotlight can't find them...Apple store had no idea what to do....

The new version of the Finder, code-named “Chardonnay” (like the wine)...

Oh, I thought you meant like the character from 'Footballers Wives'. :rolleyes:

Even if it's almost 2 years away, Finder is long overdue for more than just a lick of paint...

I wouldn't call it unnecessary...

However, compared to the Explorer of Windows, it's much less user friendly.

I love folders - what can I say, I think the virtual folder idea is completely pointless...

Even saving files on my Mac is sometimes difficult (choosing where to save them, that is...)

The file saving API is pretty nasty. Most new users don't seem to get it. They end up having files all over the place. Good thing there's Spotlight or else they would never find anything.

How about a freaking package removal tool? A TON of apps are being installed with packages these days, and there is no way to remove them without some 3rd party hack or riskscrewing everything up.

How can OSX Claim to be the most advanced Operating System with simple things such as 'uninstallation of applications' missing? Come on!! PLEASE???

Just delete the application icon (which is a folder containing everything) and delete the related directories in "~/Library/Application Support/".

There is only a small number of apps that leave files in different places. eg: Nortons

I just wouldn't worry too much about it. :p

TRUE THAT!

I removed iWork when I purchased my Mac cuz I didn't need it - now I want it, but it won't let me load it because it says that one or more 'files associated with iWork' remain on my computer....

Spotlight can't find them...Apple store had no idea what to do....

Early last month I stumbled across this app. It doesn't really cleanup everything perfect, but works good enough to make the OS think it's not installed any more. SO you could reinstall packages. (Thank goodness)
http://www.osxgnu.org/software/pkgdetail.html?project_id=244

But still, apple needs to fix this immediately.