Software wishlist
For a while now I’ve been keeping a list of features or changes I really wish the software I use to have. I consider most of these to be obviously good ideas. I don’t feel particularly creative having come up with them and I’m not sure why these haven’t been implemented yet in most cases.
Software
MacOS
The systray has tons of problems. Loads of apps rely on it, it contains functionality not available elsewhere. But it is fighting for space with the menu bar and the notch on modern Macbooks. Windows has had a simple overflow menu in forever, if an icon doesn’t fit on the systray, there’s an arrow to view all icons which don’t fit. On MacOS, icons which dont fit are simply hidden. You need to reorder and drag icons behind the notch until you get the one you want. This can take half a minute every single time and is extremely fiddly.
Jellyfin
Remember the playback position on long audio files. This is already a thing for video files. Jellyfin is great, its interface is sooo much faster and better than any other open source media center I’ve ever used. Introducing this simple feature would make it fit for audiobooks and podcasts. Right now I am forced to use Audiobookshelf or Symfonium. I’d love to have this feature in Jellyfin natively
Audiobookshelf
Why is there a panel at the top with a GIANT dropshadow and a single button which leads to a menu with only one entry? Can this be removed and the button to hide the subtitles instead be placed somewhere else?
Why does the side panel have such a giant dropshadow? It’s not as big as the top panel shadow, but both are huge and make the interface look a bit dated.
Obsidian
Right now the experience of viewing pdf Files in Obsidian on mobile is unfortunately borderline unusable. If I put my phone in landscape, less than 50% of the screen actually gets used for the pdf. Pdf content isn’t adaptive and can get quite small, so for any pdf viewer, preserving screen space is very important
I would like a way to hide all UI except for a single element to bring the rest of the UI back. The android pdf viewer does this quite nicely with toggling all UI by tapping on an empty spot on the PDF. A fullscreen button in the toolbar that currently also contains the page number and zoom controls would also work.
This bothered me enough to write a plugin for it (https://github.com/paperbenni/obsidian-zenmode), but auto hiding the UI would be even better.
K-9 Mail
Nested folders. Nested folders just get displayed as folders with / in the
name. I get that this is not a feature because it takes effort to implement, but
I would really love to have it. If you have lots of nested folders, some of
which you only need very infrequently then it is very annoying to have to scroll
past them every time you want to open a top level folder which presumably gets
more use.
Also last time I checked, K-9 Mail did have vim like shortcuts for moving up and down, but they were reversed.
Google Drive
The audio player has looots of problems. Its width is very narrow, so searching for a specific part of an audio file is very difficult and requires a lot of precision. Its design is very dated and there are no features like jumping ahead 10 seconds or rewinding 10 seconds.
The process for transferring ownership is very counterintuitive. Share the file, and in the list of people to share with, there is a menu option to transfer it next to the name of the person.
Cosmic DE
I am aware that this is alpha software, but just in case some of these problems aren’t already being worked on, here are some things I noticed while using it.
There is no media key support.
A lot of the wallpapers look quite busy. I get that this is personal preference, but I’d like to have some wallpapers that fade into be background more. Most of the time you aren’t actively looking at the wallpaper, it’s just there while you look at something else, so it shouldn’t be distracting or making things harder to read.
Super + right click drag allows resizing a window, but also right clicks on the window.
Scrolling with the mouse wheel while in the workspace switcher should switch workspaces like it does on Gnome. Right now it does nothing.