Mac OS 10.5 wish list

What’s on top of your 10.5 wish list? Here’s mine.

1. rysnc must be fixed
2. split pane Finder (and the UI updated to match the new lean style of Mail and iTunes) and possibly tabs (haven’t decided if I think that tabs should be implemented or not yet)
3. Spotlight UI fixed/improved/redone (searching for files takes too many steps, especially when you don’t care about it’s name—just want to search by criteria such as modified date). System performance during large data transfers needs to be addressed as well. They system should be smart enough to wait and cache later instead of bringing itself to it’s knees.
4. ability to lock workstation with keystroke, publicized as a lock method instead of a side product of initiating the screen saver
5. ability to alter the dock’s background transparency
6. ability to save workspaces (window sizes and locations, similar to how it is down in Adobe apps)
7. Finder keeps a browse history just like a web browser does. You can browse back and forth with with cmd + [/]. I want a History page for Finder where I can bring up with a keystroke, scan through the places, and select one as you can in Safari.
8. a graphical utility for using launchd (including creating launch plists)
9. A way to have the system automatically (nightly) make snapshots of itself that you can roll back to. You should also be able to do this manually before you make big changes so that if something goes wrong, you can roll back to a few minutes before. This should be implemented database-info style so that only the changes are recorded and not the actual files saved. In other words, this would be done “Aperture-style” instead of making an entire copy of your multiple-gig system.
10. A professional theme that matches the pro apps. No, I do not think that Mac OS should be skin-able or even tint-able (as Microsoft Windows is), but I think that a lot of professionals would like a professional theme. Two options, standard and professional, would be nice. This could even be a choice during installation so that two copies of the graphics do not have to reside on the system.