But, there is a command line tool:
mdls -name kMDItemWhereFroms filename
will report the URL(s) associated with the file, which you can then copy from the terminal.

Well, I use FruitMenu and I think it’s good but I thinks it’s better if it was a part of the operating system.
With FruitMenu you can also customise the right-button-menu in the same way, a good idea…

I want put away back. Something needs to be done about my desktop, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to do it myself.

This was my favorite timesaver- beyond the customizable apple menu. (I used sail through deep catalogs of files completely based on a network of aliases I managed in my apple menu. I miss that ability!)

I TOTALLY agree about the trash thing, and I’m worried about this time travel nonsense- I hate not being able to delete crap for good when I want to.

I HATE permissions, file vault and passwords. I never want my computer telling me I can’t do this or that. I’m the boss, no one uses my computer but me, and if I forget my password, that’s my prerogative!

Sometimes Final Cut Pro can’t find files, so it asks ME to help- and it usually takes about 30 seconds. Isn’t the computer supposed to know what files it has, where they are, and HOW BIG they are all the time, never fail, info at my fingertips, serving me the information I’ve entrusted to it? These ridiculous problems make me wish you could buy 5 minutes with Steve Jobs and make him listen to these absurd problems.

I used both a PC and mac at one job, and I got awfully used to the cut and paste files option. I’m always shifting stuff around between my drives to make room for video captures or renders etc. I hate trying to remember which files are going what direction.

I always wished there were F-keys like that old system 7 third party thing where you could program the fkeys with long strings of text. Seriously, I could do this in 1982 with my vic20.

My last big beef may have been solved by a third party, but I wish I could mount all my web servers into the finder so they look EXACTLY like hard drives or folders, except they’re remote. That would be so much better than Fetch, and solve the dot mac dilemma in iWeb.

That meant that you could have several windows on top of each other, with their tabs beside each other, exactly like the tabs on a physical hanging-folder index system. The frontmost window had a bright yellow tab and all others were pale grey. (OK, we could compromise on the bright yellow). Switching from one window to another (even a window from another app) was therefore much easier because it didn’t require moving or hiding anything, neither did it require a visit to the dock or the window menu.

There were a couple of extensions for classic Mac which implemented BeOS window bars, which I used all the time, but AFAICT there are none for OSX. I miss it!

It was that it could be used on files that had been dragged to the desktop.

Removing this functionality basically broke the desktop metaphor. Now it is something useless that gets cluttered. IIRC, this functionality was present at least in some version of System 7.

The weird thing about #4 is that I have a Petito USB drive which came with 2 partitions and I have to select both drive icons on my desktop when ejecting. I don’t know what they did to their drive which makes it work like that…

I miss #9 (url in comments field) too.

please, keep it simple, no more settings, no more “themes”, no more choices

and if you so want it, take a good optional utilities and tweak at your heart. but please, do not ask apple to complicate os X

as you can see, os x 10.5 will add some more “choices” and dialogs boxes… it’s a shame, you to ask questions to obvious choice or so technicals choice..

do you imagine if I put a “cd extra”, yeah it’s technically _2_ partitions, but common users just want to read the contents and eject the discs

not to be remind of “two sessions”… it’s why you have all the unix powers, terminal and disk utilities : to REMOVE OF the simple UI all the technicities.

I love unix commands and mount stuff and to have powers to use my computers, I also use linux and solaris and I’m paid for that but it’s also an hobby, but PLEAAAASE keep my UI SIMPLE !

As a powerbook user, I can’t believe that Apple has missed this for so long. It should allow you to switch not just network configurations, but ALL of your system preferences, including Appearance themes, sound levels, default printer settings, time zone etc., And a Menubar Icon is a mandatory option for easy fast location switching.

AND it would also be nice to allow one to switch application preferences like Safari bookmarks, iTunes and iPhoto Libraries with location manager.

The partition thing irks me to.

WindowShade? I miss it a little, but the Dock works fine and Expose is a fine paradigm shift for this functionality.

Night and day.

I can live with the user interface for OS X (although I’ve used both Devon’s Xmenu and now Butler to provide a useful applications menu and also hide the dock on the top right with TinkerTool) but I do miss the speed of the OS 9 GUI.

Basing the entire graphics interface on PDF is one of the stupidest things I could ever imagine. Talk about top-heavy. And we the users pay for it. A 256 MB accelerated graphics card just to get acceptable windows drawing.

I used to have 32MB main memory PowerBooks which outperformed my G5 2.5 GHz with 7 GB of RAM and an Nvidia 6800 for Finder operations.

I miss that

I miss tabbed windows the most.

Between those and ’show icons as buttons,’ I had my OS 8/9-era Macs so customized with tabbed windows, it took me a long time to fully switch to OS X. There are lots of applications to do similar things now — launchers, et cetera, but I haven’t found the right one yet, and I hate to launch an extra app at startup.

I really wish Apple would hire Tog or one of the other guys on the net who really understand UI design and revamp the Finder completely. Give us a spacial finder with search. Give us full use of Fitts’ law. Give us metadata galore and configurability without confusion. Why is this so hard?

Apple needs to treat the Finder as a class-A application. It is more important than any of the iLife apps, and is just a shameful hodgepodge at the moment. Maybe they’re waiting for more under-the-hood layers of indirection so they can make skinning the finder a piece of cake… I don’t know, but something needs to be done — especially with so many Windows users on their way to the Mac.

The empty trash dialog was frequently used as an example of a “correct” dialog. It gave you information that you needed in order to make a decision. There were more than a few times that I was rescued by that dialog (”The trash contains 150MB? Shouldn’t be that big…let me take a quick look…”). Because the information was useful, you didn’t just skip through it.

Now? “You can’t undo this action.” Useless.

That said, I think we’re seeing the tail-end of dialogs like this. With Time Machine in Leopard, you’ll be able to get deleted files back.

Also, been craving the return of “Put away”. It has many purposes, not the least of which is if you move quickly and accidentally send files to the trash that you didn’t mean to.

Speed!

on the same machine, boot it in OS X, use it for 30 min. Then boot in Classic. This requires an older machine. Use Classic for 30 minutes.

The Classic UI is so much faster and zippier than OS X. Even with the faster processors of today, the sluggishness of the GUI in OS X is readily apparent.

Come on Apple, you’ve got more than enough horsepower, spend some time optimizing performance, we’ve been waiting 5 years…

This is one thing I really, really miss. The current OS X “Location Manager” is brain dead. As a consultant, I used my PowerBook in many different network environments, and the ability to quickly switch between settings (Printers, SMTP servers, mounted drives, not just network settings) was a feature that simply jaw-dropped my Windows laptop-toting contemporaries. Every MacBook owner has at least TWO “locations”: home and travelling. A business user likely has three: home, work, and travelling.

And yes, there is a project already providing a Location Manager service similar to OS9 called Location X, and it works quite well. However, until Apple includes this functionality into the OS as an API, it will not see widespread adoption…which is unfortunate.

But, alas, since I’m the only one that misses it…

You can set the spacing between icons in the menubar. And if I remember correctly, it also highlights the front most app so its real easy to see.

Mark

http://pweb.netcom.com/~kawahara/taskmenubar.html

This great app put icons of opened apps in the menubar and what was nice about this was that if you clicked once on any of the opened icons in the menubar, you would bring that app to the front. If you double-clicked on any of the opened icons in the menubar, you would bring that app to the front AND hide all other open apps.
All this by just using one hand and your mouse.

Mark