<p>I recently started to develop using Flex 3 and Adobe Air and I wanted to know what features you want to be in futures releases of Adobe Air ?<br />
The ones that I miss are:<br /></p>

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<li>Cross-systems way of launching a local file (shellExec) right from an Air application (although you can do this using workaround at least under Windows)</li>
<li>Ability to setup dynamic paths for Embed statement (e.g. <i>Embed[(variable+"/path/to/file")]</i> ). I didn't find any way to do this properly.</li>
<li>Some way of setting Flex object's positions with absolute values from CSS (that sounds more Flex related by the way)</li>
</ul>

<p>Don't hesitate to add your workarounds to theses limitations if you know somes.</p>

Ability to call out to native code - you currently have to ship a server written in another language and make calls to that to do anything more than Air gives you.
Modal windows. There's a hack you can do which involves setting Application.application.enabled = false, setting dialog.nativeWindow.alwaysInFront = true and then re-enabling the application when the dialog closes, but this is long-winded and doesn't disable any native menus you may have! It's crazy that something so simple is made so difficult.
A usable way to set the application's icon. I spent 2 hours trying to do this the other day and gave up after persistent "303" errors that gave me no idea of what I was doing wrong. Again, really basic stuff.