A day or two ago Apple announced that the next version of Mac OS X, 10.4, or "Tiger", will be previewed at the WWDC in June. MacNN has a long(-ish) forums thread that covers the features that people want to see in "Tiger", and I thought I might add to that list here!
nbnz said "What about the "Home on iPod" that was meant to be in Panther?" I think this would be cool, as you could take your iPod to someone else's computer and have all your files there. The only problem is, what would you do with the music stored in the music folder? You'd want those to be easily accessible for the user to listen to, but then it defeats the purpose of Apple hiding and re-organising the music on the iPod, and you'd also have two copies of the music folder. Plus, I only have 160+ MB available on my 15 Gig iPod, which probably wouldn't be enough. 
JasonQG said "I forget what Apple used to call it, but I want the ability to save the contents of RAM to disk and shutdown (like hibernate on Windows). For laptop users, I think this is the biggest OS 9 feature not in OS X." I think is also pretty cool. I usually put my computer to sleep, but the battery power slowly drains, which can be a problem. I usually take my laptop to work on the days I get to uni, and the battery life sinks down to the low-90s/high-80s, which isn't such an issue for normal use, but if I had to stay at uni for a bit longer than I normally do, I'd probably run out of battery life. Having a "hibernate" feature would probably avoid this.
Bugger… the MacNN forums just reached their maximum user connections, just as I was going through the posts and pulling my favourite requests!
Ok… It's back up again.
Link says "mail: smart email boxes (there's already junk)" I think this would be great! We already have it in iTunes and iPhoto (smart playlists), why not have meta-folders for Mail. I could have a folder that contains any emails from my friend Mat, for instance, and they'd be viewable in there, even though they have a different physical location.
This could be extended to the Finder as well. I think it'd be cool. LaunchBar (which I use) already has some grouping of similar files, even though they're in different folders.
He also says "A dialog box that pops up when you plug in something that doesn't have a driver installed… this is REALLY crucial for new users trust me." I think this is another great idea! I've been thinking about this for a couple of weeks… See my previous post. Once I get my Cocoa programming up, I may think about doing this.
That's about all I have for now… I'll add to this post if I think of any more.
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