Interface Feature Request

Illustrator CS6 has enhanced its Interface like the brightness control feature. In this context, I just want to share the possibilities and need of some more interface faeture.
First, I wish that there was a control button to increase / decrease the size of the Toolbar items or may be the font sizes in the panels(Menu Bar, Control Bar etc). This will be particularly helpful, when we work in a very large screen. eg. I work in a 27" monitor and sometimes I find it difficult to see the Text and the Toolbar icons as I sit little away from the monitor due to its bigger screen. In Coreldraw, there are 3 button sizes (Large, medium & Small) for the Tools to be viewed inside the toolbar. So the same can be done for ai. If already provided, please let me know how to find the option.
Secondly, it is obvious that it will take more space if we increase the button size of the tools and hence, may not accomodate all the Tools item in a single column in the toolbar. So in that case, we have to opt for 2 column toolbar (as Illustrator & Photoshop supports both single & double column toolbar). Now, many of the people work with several Plug-ins which also comes under the toolbar and thus making it bulkier. So it may be useful that there should be option for more than 2 column Toolbar (I am not sure if it automatically makes way for the 3rd column, when the first 2 columns are full).

Wrong place for your suggestions. If you want to report this to Apple, send bug reports and enhancement requests via its Bug Reporter system. To do this, join the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. The nice thing with this procedure is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.

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    Hello vreid47362,
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    Message was edited by: olafwagner

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    These 3 algorithms also apply an auto-toning feature which, when the Lightroom version doesn't work, these might give excellent results quickly.  Photoperfect is a program that implements these 3 technologies into its interface and is excellent for quickly tweaking jpegs and tiffs.  I would love to see this same capability married to Lightroom's excellent raw conversion engine and outstanding new highlight and shadow sliders.
    A skin-tone white balance would be most welcome. Silkypix has this feature.  When there is no neutral coloured object, you can click on a skin-tone and this will often white balance the image correctly.
    More profiles would be welcome.  To use Silkypix 5 Pro as an example again, it has 6 portrait profiles--these are most useful for achieving the perfect look for your photograph.  Some are good for single light sources, while others excel at providing pleasing colour under mixed light sources.
    Sliders to fine tune noise reduction based on tone (ie. shadow, midtone, and highlight) would truly make Lightroom's noise reduction the gold standard.

    As these requests may not make the final release, and we wouldn't want the request to get lost in beta land, might I suggest adding it as a suggestion on the Feature Request forum http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family where it can easily be tracked?  If you post the link to your request here, others can also vote on your request.  You may even find a few of them already requested over there, so you could add your vote.

  • Feature request: transplanting architectural state into OpenSPARC

    Hi All,
    This is a follow-up from our conversation at FCRC/ISCA last week.
    I have a feature request for the OpenSPARC RTL, and potentially the FPGA model, which would help researchers experiment with real workloads on OpenSPARC:
    I would like to see a process for transplanting checkpointed architectural state of a booted and running T1000/T2000 system (arch. registers, MMU, and memory values) into the OpenSPARC RTL model.
    Ideally, this would happen over a socket so the transplant doesn't depend on a particular full-system simulator (e.g., we use Simics/Niagara at CMU, but I expect that many people would like to interface with SAM).
    I attempted this on my own a few months ago, with limited success. I wrote Verilog PLI/socket code that 1. slams many of the architectural registers and MMU and 2. replaces the interface in dimm.v with socket calls to a remote Simics instance (non-trivial code, has to reconstruct the phys addr and ECC bits to work properly). Much of this actually worked. I was not, however, able to redirect the core's PC to a new location and properly initiate an i-cache miss.
    Perhaps someone with a better understanding of the fetch/thread select stages knows the right combination of registers, valid bits, fetch/miss queue entries could make this work...
    Brainstorm:
    An alternative approach (which avoids many, but not all, dependencies on the specific RTL revision and is arguably superior to my first approach) might be to write a hyper-privileged "context switch" ASM routine to load architectural state and get the processor boostrapped at a new PC.
    This program could be like the usual validation test program, except it loads registers/MMU state from the hijacked DRAM model. Once these values have been loaded into the core, the caches can be invalidated to remove these temporary values (trivial with PLI code), and the full-system memory image can be enabled in the DRAM model.
    I can make my code available, if desired.
    Thanks!
    Jared

    Hi Jared,
    Thanks for following up on this.
    There could be wider interesting in this work and we feel that it makes a very good OpenSPARC based community project that can be hosted on opensparc.net.
    If you are interested in contributing the code and taking it forward then we can get it hosted and have right people from Sun help you in making it a successsful one.
    I will send you separate email on this topic.
    Thank You.
    Hi All,
    This is a follow-up from our conversation at
    FCRC/ISCA last week.
    I have a feature request for the OpenSPARC RTL, and
    potentially the FPGA model, which would help
    researchers experiment with real workloads on
    OpenSPARC:
    I would like to see a process for transplanting
    checkpointed architectural state of a booted and
    running T1000/T2000 system (arch. registers, MMU, and
    memory values) into the OpenSPARC RTL model.
    Ideally, this would happen over a socket so the
    transplant doesn't depend on a particular full-system
    simulator (e.g., we use Simics/Niagara at CMU, but I
    expect that many people would like to interface with
    SAM).
    I attempted this on my own a few months ago, with
    limited success. I wrote Verilog PLI/socket code
    that 1. slams many of the architectural registers
    and MMU and 2. replaces the interface in dimm.v with
    socket calls to a remote Simics instance (non-trivial
    code, has to reconstruct the phys addr and ECC bits
    to work properly). Much of this actually worked. I
    was not, however, able to redirect the core's PC to a
    new location and properly initiate an i-cache miss.
    Perhaps someone with a better understanding of the
    fetch/thread select stages knows the right
    combination of registers, valid bits, fetch/miss
    queue entries could make this work...
    Brainstorm:
    An alternative approach (which avoids many, but not
    all, dependencies on the specific RTL revision and is
    arguably superior to my first approach) might be to
    write a hyper-privileged "context switch" ASM routine
    to load architectural state and get the processor
    boostrapped at a new PC.
    This program could be like the usual validation test
    program, except it loads registers/MMU state from the
    hijacked DRAM model. Once these values have been
    loaded into the core, the caches can be invalidated
    to remove these temporary values (trivial with PLI
    code), and the full-system memory image can be
    enabled in the DRAM model.
    I can make my code available, if desired.
    Thanks!
    Jared

  • Feature Requests for BlackBerry​10 OS

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    This thread has been closed and is continued in this new thread here: 
    Feature Requests beyond BlackBerry OS10.3.1
    Please click on that link.
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    Let's use this thread to list BlackBerry10 OS feature requests. There's nothing official to this thread, but one never knows who might view it and get an idea or two to move foward.
    Please let's keep it to feature requests with simple short statements and comments, in this manner:
    1. Ability to lock the volume keys (since they are so easliy pressed when retrieving from holster)
    2. Personal distribution groups Address Book
    4. Add BBM Group icon to home screen
    **This thread is not for bug reports (i.e., the calendar glitches when I set the date) or for debate or discussion of the worthiness of a feature request.
    So, what would YOU add to BB10?
    What do YOU need to make the OS platform work better for you?
    Here are the collected feature requests as of 04 April 2013. Thanks for Ride_The_Sky for helping collect these from this thread.
    There are listed in no order, just as collected.
    Ability to lock the volume keys (since they are so easily pressed when retrieving from holster)
    Personal distribution groups Address Book
    Add BBM Group icon to home screen
    Way to add line carriage to BBM messages
    Why doesn't the most used name come up first? <- In latest OS, there is another line with most common contacts, but when typing it won't provide most commonly emailed contacts.
    Bring back the option "Send As" or include this option in "Share"
    Enable word wrap when zooming in to emails and messages.
    Import Distribution lists from Outlook on your desktop to your Z10?
    *The option* to always show the hub main screen when opening the hub, so when peeking it always shows the hub even if you leave it in another screen.
    Offer Balance without BES to have two workspaces in device.
    Delete on Server/Device/Both
    Delete on Server but Keep on Device (This is going to be tough since EAS does not work like POP, using POP you can do this by deleting on server after sync)
    Auto power on/off or Auto Do Not Disturb / Scheduled Airplane Mode / Scheduled Silence Mode / Scheduled Custom Profile
    Default Currency Option
    More options to lower data usage in e-mail (Headers Only / Roaming Profiles)
    Snooze a notification/reminder for more than 5 minutes.
    Customized Notifications
    Disable certain accounts to stop receiving email or notifications from them temporarily to avoid data usage.
    Way to delete recent pictures, videos.
    Office Hub customization, sorting, editing, etc., on the fly.
    Select which contact groups to sync, and ability delete all contacts.
    Larger text select tabs
    Add more options to dropbar.
    Improve browser functionality and display, add customization and management of Bookmarks.
    Calendar in Landscape mode
    Option to Disable shutter sounds in camera.
    Auto BCC option
    Multiple appointments in lock screen, not only next one.
    Increase email check frequency, custom minutes (possibly battery concern, most accounts use push nowadays)
    Ability to hide "texting" numbers such as Work, home, etc that aren't able to receive texts
    Ability to have multiple mobile numbers, such as mobile1, mobile2, for people with more than one cellphone
    Ability to have multiple work numbers, home numbers, etc
    Ability to have option for actually creating "custom" names for phone numbers, emails, VOIP,
    Ability to have multiple WORK emails fields for same contact ...
    Ability for a custom note field for each contact, for misc information such as store hours, reference numbers, business account numbers,
    Ability for filter or unselect specific Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook contacts so they all don't appear
    Ability to "share" contact info with someone else ... like a vcard or the like
    Ability to have custom Individual text and ringtones for each contact set within contacts app
    Vibrate option for Alarm
    Mail Filters for Priority mails.
    Option to block ringtones from music app (i don't see ringtones in my music app, I guess poster refers to custom mp3 files)
    Swipe down to close, up to minimize (but some apps have menus associated with swipe up gesture)
    Swipe half way up the screen to minimize an application to an active tile.
    Swipe it all the way up the screen to close the application.
    Playbook app switching gestures (swipe sideways, I guess this won't work since there are other gestures associated with side-swiping)
    Lock screen with gesture (or maybe they should just add a button on home screen, somewhere on top or bottom)
    Airplane mode on status bar options.
    Option to customize status bar with select Settings/Options.
    Colors for Hub!
    Face recognition for camera, being able to associate contacts with faces or pull info from Facebook, etc.
    Weather info on Lock Screen (if I may add, and constant info on top status bar, simple temp info should be enough)
    We need groups back in contacts please.
    Import text messages in various formats from various systems.
    Sorting and Ordering of the way contacts are displayed depending on account.
    While editing an entry in calendar, notification about a recent call may cause loss of data in that entry.
    Location for Calendar entries and be able to see it on the map with a tap.
    Being able to see multiple pictures from an email by swiping left and right to see next/previous without having to reopen (I must say the same thing is needed for App World, why can't we just scroll through screenshots??)
    Multiple flags or ability to set a flag date, associate with a reminder.
    Move people from TO to CC or BCC easily (If I may add, also ability to backspace to delete a contact without having to tap the X in blue box).
    Option to add favorites to Hub for easy to reach contact management (I think it is same as going to contacts and choosing Favs)
    Being able to answer and make calls when the phone is locked.
    Add more colors to LED notification (I think they are there now, orange, green, red so far, did not see blue, I don't think blue is needed in my opinion)
    Change the way to add date and time for appointment, rollbar is too slow and too sensitive.
    Dismiss and Snooze buttons for Alarm to be different colors, larger, easier to notice.
    Make it easier to order world clocks, instead of the order they are added.
    Alarms based on days/schedule.
    Easier way to get to the bottom of e-mails (I think it scrolls pretty fast, I think poster wants "B" shortcut)
    Easer way to get to the bottom of web pages (same as above, space or B shortcut?)
    Add option to ask if you really want to dial, instead of just dialing right away every time a phone number is clicked/tapped on.
    Ability to resize image before attaching to an e-mail.
    More than 30 days email sync on device, please!
    Make BB boot up slower, so we can actually get to do something else while waiting for it to start!
    SSH client would be nice.
    Another keyboard like Swipe (honestly, I have never typed faster in my life on any other on screen keyboard, Z10 keyboard is awesome!)
    Volume lock/unlock button on demand.
    Auto Run app on device boot up.
    Lock or Pin apps.
    Ability to run background apps (Google Talk is running in the background, or it is tricking me, I don't know but I am getting messages from it when it is shut down on BB10, I hope they do Skype the same way)
    Ability to have multiple documents of same type open at the same time (tabbed docs2go)
    Calendar sharing of BB10 users in the area/company/group.
    PIN Messaging to return.
    Preview e-mails, calendar and other information on lock screen (privacy?)
    Way to clear anything in any "Recent" menu, videos, pictures, etc..
    Ability to hide apps, docs, pics, videos, folders, etc..
    BBM Group Picture notification.
    Support WhatsApp more.
    Another tap for important numbers (Favorites work for this, and on top of speed dial)
    From Call Menu when going into contacts, it should be ready to search with keyboard out.
    Option to customize volume key to act as page up/down, etc depending on app running.
    Red star in app world (means you need to run Updates, just refresh and check by swiping down from top)
    Better headphones with the phone (hey, we didn't even get any!)
    Better night shots in camera (hardware or software improvement?)
    Ability to choose which address book to sync with bluetooth car.
    When app is opened from a folder three or four pages into apps list, we hope the screen can go back to that spot when the app is closed (sadly it uses active frames at the moment)
    Change acceptance of auto corrected key, instead of space key, make it something else (actually, you can just backspace to un-autocorrect it back to what you typed).
    Ability to load certificates (X 509 S/MIME and/or PGP/MIME) from a computer
    Ability to sign and or encrypt emails (POP3)  before sending (As in MS Office Outlook)
    Ability to receive and recognize signed and or encrypted emails (POP3) (As in MS Office Outlook)
    Add a password/certificate manager that doesn't require manual copy/paste
    Ability to encrypt the memories Device and Media of the Q10 like it is done for the BB9900
    Ability to encrypt selected folders (preferably by Private Key)
    Ability to create Self-Decrypting Archive like in PGP
    Ability to delete email-messages by group as an alternate option to one by one
    Opening Video-chat to non-BBM users (Skype for instance)
    For above encryption request, SecuSmart was suggested...
    Renaming the file without extension can break the file or hide it from pictures list.
    Wallpaper scrolling sideways.
    Standalone e-mail app (not sure how different it is than choosing emails-only for hub)
    Different colors or small tabs in different colors for different accounts in Hub.
    Share webpages with smart tag (I think you can just create it by pasting the URL into create QR)
    Application management (being able to see which app takes up how much space, etc..) CPU/Memory/Battery Usage/Data Usage/Storage Usage in more details
    Custom vibration options.
    Move Send button in BBM to avoid accidental submission of message
    Forward As… SMS, MMS, EMAIL from one to another.
    Send SMS to new numbers (I think you can still do this from call log)
    Single key press to change profiles.
    Insert a picture into an e-mail. (I think he means into the body of email)
    Turning off links of contacts (I think poster did not have multiple accounts, actually BB10 goes ahead and adds all new contacts into all address books in all accounts without user permission.. Create a contact in Hotmail? Gets copied to Gmail.. and then linked, terrible implementation in my opinion)
    Presets for browser bookmarks, faster access to bookmarks. (My suggestion was to create a home screen, select 12 icons 3x4 or 16 icons 4x4 as home screen/start page)
    Being able to allow flash based on website/url/server.
    Ability to adjust different sounds/volumes for different BBM users/groups
    Better Voice Dial and Voice Commands (shorter and easier operation)
    Ability close one or all web pages/tabs, add "Close All" button.
    Call Recording
    Faster way to delete e-mails, such as file icons next to e-mails,  or Swipe to Delete! Swipe to File!?
    Customize email signatures with formatting.
    Phone to stay on screen (dial pad always available in panes)
    More Options for Clock.
    In Playbook we can have a single character password, why not on BB10? "too short" well it is my decision, isn't it?
    There is no way to go next/previous while reading an e-mail. Please add these functions.
    Add to the e-mail client, Next Unread / Previous Unread.
    E-mail or Hub should have more buttons at the bottom in landscape mode. Why keep only three (or four in e-mail view) buttons when you have the real estate. It would be extremely handy if you allowed users to edit which buttons should go at the bottom. Next Previous is really needed while reading an e-mail. For example I would love to add "File" button at the bottom as a shortcut instead of forward, I rarely forward, but I file all the time. Maybe allow users to have two row of keys, add next/previous/unread. Or it could be done with a gesture. How about swiping the account name (top blue bar while reading e-mail) left and right?
    When you create a new contact in BlackBerry, it gets synced to all accounts on the Hub. There is no way to limit the new contact to a specific account.
    Sometimes when you file an e-mail to a folder, it stops and waits few seconds with no message. Even when it files immediately, there is a confirmation message that takes time to appear and disappear, and the folder list does not disappear automatically.
    Messages filed automatically by server using server side filter rules are still showing up on Blackberry hub/inbox. In older BB versions the filtered messages did not show up in the list, filed messages still did.
    When you filter your e-mails using Filter / Unread function, new unread e-mails do not show up until you close the filter and re-open. It won't just keep refreshing your screen with unread e-mails. Can BB add a button to the hub "Unread Hub" so when hub shows 8 or 2, you can actually see unread items easily without having to through so many taps.
    Native BB QR scanner (Smart Tags) does not work with barcodes (it only scans with no way to use the information). There is Open In function but it doesn't work properly.
    We need to add more customs search providers, and be able to add custom search strings/wildcards. For example currently there is Google, Bing, Yahoo, Foursquare, etc..
    I hope BB introduces the ability include more standard & custom searches, IMDB, PriceGrabber, Ebay, Youtube, XYZ Forums, ABC Newspaper, 123 Database, Etc.. Most sites nowadays provide search string in their URL Search=?* etc...
    None of the Battery apps can access system settings to add a battery icon to the top. I wish battery percentage was there.
    There is no way to check carrier/mobile signal strength.
    Blackberry, please add the date and carrier / SSID info to the top. Sometimes we just want to glance at the top to see the date without having to swipe.
    Please bring back keyboard shortcuts. Since we can easily swipe up to bring the keyboard, just add keyboard shortcuts in e-mail, phone (true speed dialing, dialing by word?), and browser, etc.. if possible. I could always call 1800SOMETHING# now I have to look up the number or use dial pad.. Please bring it back.
    Camera zoom function needs to be fixed, also please include option of fixed focus by tapping on the screen to focus. The auto focus in video is focusing in and out to various objects all the time. Stabilization feature also causes tearing/ripples, I guess it is good if you are stationary. Or use Volume Keys to Zoom.
    Please allow more than 12 icons in an icon group/folder, I hated Apple for limiting apps per folder, please fix it.
    Auto ON/OFF feature is not there anymore. BB should consider Auto DND (DoNotDisturb) or Auto Silent/Airplane modes instead.
    Please find a way to stop the music app from automatically starting up every time it connects to bluetooth like car audio. This is very annoying.
    No Panaroma mode in Camera app, why not? It is very easy to incorporate. This could be a nice addition to next release, and easy.
    The text selection grips needs to be a little bigger, sometimes I cannot see where I am moving them, they work better in Playbook, nice big tabs.
    Call Functions, before answering a phone add sideways gesture functions, like swiping right will forward the call, swiping left will answer with a test message, etc..
    Or there should be a way to reject the call without sending it to voice mail, phones had this function a decade ago, I don't know what happened to it.
    We used to be able to see the "History" without having to save the contact. Now I don't see any way to "View History" of a certain phone number, it just keeps adding
    them as individual entries to the log. Now I can't see when was the last time they called me, how many times we spoke which day, etc... I loved this feature in BB5.
    Where is BB Traffic? Where is BB Weather, without having to run an active frame? It will eventually disappear if you run too many apps. I liked a little Icon that shows me what the temp is, instead of running a whole app.
    There is no Skype. This day and age with all other platforms having it, please either get skype (Microsoft) to cooperate, or open up BBM to other platforms. If necessary, pay Skype to develop the app, then charge BB users for the app. Most will gladly pay.
    Can we tap and hold on an active frame to pin it, or can we pin two favorite apps between Call and Search & Search and Camera buttons in the bottom bar? How about Close All running Active Frames app to quickly free up ram?
    I hope next generation devices have two speakers or speaker that is facing forward. When playing games or watching videos in landscape mode, I find my palm muting the speaker. I have to hold it gently with fingers to have a gap in between, something I don't want to do when I am on the subway or bus.
    Blackberry Maps should have a Zoom In/Zoom Out buttons, sometimes using it with one hand, it is impossible to zoom in and out. (Zoom in is OK but we can't zoom back out)
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    3. Install free BlackBerry Protect today for backups of contacts and data.
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    - ability to choose deletion of an email on handset only
    - desktop software working with all older BB's allowing drag and drop type of transferring data, contacts etc. (BB link doesn't recognize my old Storm) 
    - auto power on/off
    - contacts syncing with yahoo & Outlook (almost two weeks trying to work around it and no luck)

  • FEATURE REQUEST: make swipe-down Notifications bar disable-able

    I use the iPad as a drawing tablet every day, using Brushes, ArtRage, and other drawing apps.
    It's wonderful and I am delighted to be able to do this . . . EXCEPT WHEN I DRAW A STROKE DOWN FROM THE TOP OF THE SCREEN.
    The introduction of the new pull-down Notifications drawer has led to loud cursing and a strong desire to break things, for me. When one is drawing, one is not in a state in which one wishes to glance at what the next day's schedule is at. Furthermore, the active area of the pull-down also 'catches' the drawing input, so the stroke which is misdirected into the Notification dialog is lost work, and subsequent rapid stokes, up to the threshold of my reaction time, also do not register.
    I must then dismiss the godforsaken irritating dialog in order to continue drawing. It is the most incredibly irritating interaction I have ever experienced on an Apple product.
    Please permit the dialog to be disabled either user-globally or on a per-app basis as a user-configurable setting.

    even with all notifications turned off the drawer remains active. there's no way to disable it.
    while this may be a user to user forum apple people do contribute.  I did file this as a feature request but wanted it to be visible and searchable.

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