None that I can find. I hate it too. The border is way too thick. And the spacing is too confined to the grid. It wastes space and looks bad. And when it's something like a GIF or PNG with transparency it looks even more wrong. The border should only be on JPGs and only a few pixels at most or optionally turned off. Like iPhoto. I was so sure when they went flat with Yosemite to match iOS 7 they'd remove it completely. It's too skeuomorphic. It represents a photograph. But GUESS WHAT APPLE? Not all image files are photos! Someone needs to tell DropBox this too because their iOS app shows all image files in your DropBox in the "Photos" view which makes no sense. NOT ALL IMAGES ARE PHOTOS! How can companies not figure this out? Just like not all video files are TV or movies. And not all MP3s are music or even Podcasts.
Also, I wish icon view could show more information in its title space. Right now you can only get the name and a single line in blue depending on the media type. (Dimensions for images, item count for folders, length for videos, etc...) Why can't we show other stuff too like the file size? And come on, why doesn't the text color change to make sure its always readable when you use a custom background color? That's like a simple oversight that should have been fixed 10 years ago... along with so many other stupid Finder quirks that even OS 9 did better 15 years ago.
I miss OS 9's Finder with its folders that could only exist once and would NEVER EVER EVER forget your settings. EVER. The fucking sidebar is the worst thing to happen to the Finder. It's always showing up when I don't want it and changing my folder settings for that folder then doesn't appear when I do want it. The sidebar should never appear unless I ask for it. And when I do it should not remember anything about the size of the window. Just because I had a folder in a rectangular sidebar window doesn't mean I want that shape to be remembered and override the perfect size I had the window set at when it was just the folder. Whoever is coding the Finder should have been fired years ago and replaced with people who know what they're doing. Every year I cross my fingers that it'll be fixed. Every year disappointment. They can't even get the zoom button to work properly. It's been broken for over 10 years and has been temporarily fixed twice. Temporarily. For 2 weeks each time. Then bam, back to broken.
I think 10.11 needs to be another Snow Leopard. No new features. Just FIX EVERYTHING THAT'S BROKEN and optimize. It probably won't be though.
People forget that Snow Leopard wasn't a bugfix release, it was actually a massive rewrite of the kernel and a ton of the underpinnings of the OS and it was
plenty buggy when it first came out.
But yeah, it was a huge improvement to the OS and made a huge huge difference going forward in Apple's ability to support it, and by the time it got to 10.6.8 it was the most rock-solid that OS X has ever been.
I *do* think, though, that 10.11 ought to focus on ways of streamlining the OS to make future support much easier. Kill the Dashboard, kill iTunes and turn it into OS-level sync services and separate Video, Music, Podcast, Media Store, and App Store apps... et cetera.
iOS 8 and Yosemite added a TON of new shit, and that's great, but it doesn't need to happen this time around. I still think that what's happening to iPhoto needs to happen to iTunes (and not having these giant bloated apps full of old code will make it much easier for Apple to iterate and support in the future).
Apart from that, it'd be nice to have the Siri function that almost made it into Mavericks and almost made it into Yosemite, and it'd be nice to have the Control Center function that almost made it into Yosemite, since we know there are already teams developing both of those things for OS X anyway. And a Mail app incorporating some of the UI advancement that we've seen from Inbox and Mailbox would be great.
For sheer short-term stability's sake, though, the best thing wouldn't be a Snow Leopard - it'd be to keep going with *no* major updates for a full two years. Think 10.10.8 instead of 10.11.
Like I said, though, for long-term stability's sake it's good to restructure some legacy stuff like iTunes and iPhoto. Fewer new APIs in the next one though, for sure.
