Looking at the Finder toolbar buttons, the tabs, the checkboxes.
Is that the best they can come up with to liven up our retina screens?
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Yosemite looks terrible!
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Looking at the Finder toolbar buttons, the tabs, the checkboxes.
Is that the best they can come up with to liven up our retina screens?
Looking at the Finder toolbar buttons, the tabs, the checkboxes.
Is that the best they can come up with to liven up our retina screens?
High contrast mode is on in that screenshot... it looks much more subtle and cleaner by default.
What is that picture? Surely you are not trying to say that this awful mockup has anything to do with Yosemite?
But senpai... that is Yosemite.
> Increased contrast
> cDock > 3D dock
> Colorfulsidebar
> Custom folder icons
Ah, I see. So someone has modded the normal looks of Yosemite, which resulted in ugly icons and ugly colors and now people are discussing how awful Yosemite looks
Entertaining BTW, the screenshot does show at least one bug with the accessibility settings in combination with the dark mode the menu icons should not be black when the 'Increase contrast' is activated.
dark mode still crappy
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Daenerys, please: what, specifically, looks hideous?
no mention of folder icons
no mention of folder icons
Concerning the third party folder icons: I suspect that Mr Todhunter and joedec viewed the folder icons (at least, the related overlay) as a nice touch. Not awful.
Yes, that's probably what was meant by crappy.
Yosemite dark mode should be no less accessible, no less pleasing in appearance, than its alternative.
That pace is debatably crappy.
Considering feedback from six developer previews, over three months, plus the time that Apple must have taken before the first, it is disappointing to find a menu of Finder only half-baked in appearance. This is Finder, the Apple app that is almost omnipresent, which gained a 'Go' menu years ago.
I should be not too harsh on Apple. If a half-baked appearance is a side-effect of very recently scrapping what was originally imagined for a release of Yosemite, then I welcome the company's readiness to scrap what's not right.
I've honestly no idea how I feel about this myself. I neither love or hate it.
See, it was the gorgeous, incredible, way ahead of it's time look which Leopard had that attracted me to OSX. I came in at Snow Leopard. To this day I think it was the visual pinnacle of OSX. Aqua was so very far ahead of it's time when it launched that I quite honestly felt they didn't NEED to get rid of it. To me it still stands up today!
Well, with Yosemite that's all out the window. Everything that attracted me to OSX visually is gone and I could easily make Linux look far better. However...
I don't hate it! I should, but I don't. For the new type of UI it is it's still the best of it's kind and it's still the best looking OS out there (not including themed Linux of course)! Also the way certain UI elements react to your wallpaper/content is amazing! I hate when people compare the transparency to aero though as it's nothing alike. The transparency is so subtle you barely notice it. Really, I wouldn't call it transparency, more like adaptation. The title bar adapts to scrolling content and the doc/sidebar adapt to your active wallpaper or whatever's behind it. The most transparent element is the dock and even that's not transparent.
I won't lie, I do miss the 3D dock (the original Leopard style one) but being a Mac user for 4 years now I know all the benefits to OSX/owning a Mac besides a fancy UI. I don't love the UI changes but I don't hate them either. Some parts are kinda cool and refreshing. I just can't wait till my next phone upgrade so I can grab an iPhone and have an even better OSX experience.
See, it was the gorgeous, incredible, way ahead of it's time look which Leopard had that attracted me to OSX. I came in at Snow Leopard. To this day I think it was the visual pinnacle of OSX. Aqua was so very far ahead of it's time when it launched that I quite honestly felt they didn't NEED to get rid of it. To me it still stands up today!
Well, with Yosemite that's all out the window. Everything that attracted me to OSX visually is gone and I could easily make Linux look far better. However...
I don't hate it! I should, but I don't. For the new type of UI it is it's still the best of it's kind and it's still the best looking OS out there (not including themed Linux of course)! Also the way certain UI elements react to your wallpaper/content is amazing! I hate when people compare the transparency to aero though as it's nothing alike. The transparency is so subtle you barely notice it. Really, I wouldn't call it transparency, more like adaptation. The title bar adapts to scrolling content and the doc/sidebar adapt to your active wallpaper or whatever's behind it. The most transparent element is the dock and even that's not transparent.
I won't lie, I do miss the 3D dock (the original Leopard style one) but being a Mac user for 4 years now I know all the benefits to OSX/owning a Mac besides a fancy UI. I don't love the UI changes but I don't hate them either. Some parts are kinda cool and refreshing. I just can't wait till my next phone upgrade so I can grab an iPhone and have an even better OSX experience.
Questions for anyone:
to let you know theres more to see than whats visible in the window as you scroll.
What more is there to Apple's logic for that appearance?
What's Apple's logic, and is it demonstrably consistent?
For consistency, with what's done to the toolbar, the following would be more Yosemite-like:
Through experimentation in and around Yosemite, I decided to make major changes to the appearances of my Docks. Early changes included abandonment of indicators below running apps. I'm now happy with no background. In chronological order, some of my recent choices:
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to let you know theres more to see than whats visible in the window as you scroll.
What more is there to Apple's logic for that appearance?
What's Apple's logic, and is it demonstrably consistent?
For consistency, with what's done to the toolbar, the following would be more Yosemite-like:
- a sidebar that adapts to let me know that there's more to see than what's visible
Through experimentation in and around Yosemite, I decided to make major changes to the appearances of my Docks. Early changes included abandonment of indicators below running apps. I'm now happy with no background. In chronological order, some of my recent choices:
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Of course they can, also they fade the font in this case, which I cannot understand why they can't seem to resolve "unreadable" without feedback.
For now I guess we just send feedback.
Well that's the whole point. It's not even released yet. Things are subject to change. Stacks may not even be complete. Just leave feedback, sit tight and if it doesn't change come release you can always go back to Mavericks and hope the next OSX iteration is different enough.
Generally you don't wait till you release your software before fixing the simple stuff. This is not rocket science here, this is fonts and icons. I've shown prototypes that never got these kind of complaints.
Releasing the 2nd Public Beta in this shape, that's just embarrassing.
Oh come on!
Their priority is, and should be, fixing REAL bugs. A slight UI feature you take issue with?? It may or may not change but it's not the end of the world!! The OS isn't finished, give them a bloody break!!
As I said, the LOOK is completely and utterly relative and a matter of opinion.
FTR, grid stacks lack just fine to me and perfectly legible. Therefore it's just people nitpicking where there's nothing to pick or unique to a DP and NOT in the public beta!
There's nothing to even fix and if there was as said the OS is not finished till released.
Their priority is, and should be, fixing REAL bugs. A slight UI feature you take issue with?? It may or may not change but it's not the end of the world!! The OS isn't finished, give them a bloody break!!
As I said, the LOOK is completely and utterly relative and a matter of opinion.
FTR, grid stacks lack just fine to me and perfectly legible. Therefore it's just people nitpicking where there's nothing to pick or unique to a DP and NOT in the public beta!
There's nothing to even fix and if there was as said the OS is not finished till released.
Yosemite dark mode should be no less accessible, no less pleasing in appearance, than its alternative.
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The same with 14A343f. WebKit.app r173207 can not be launched.
Your right, REAL bugs, those aren't being fixed, and there are a ton of regressions. How about REAL opportunity, like why doesn't Apple finish Time Machine, or make an Airport Utility that shows "wired" DHCP clients... I could go on and on. There's lots of room for improvement.
The point is, it seems this release is all about fonts and icons, very few REAL problems are being addressed. Handoff and Continuity could have been in a Mavericks patch release.
PS Legibility is a regression not an opinion.
and as I said I personally tested and there is zero legibility issue. At least not on the public beta.
I don't follow you. Time Machine is a finished product and is the best backup solution I've used (for free at least) and certainly far better than Microsoft can spew out.
Bugs will get fixed. The OS isn't finished yet. As for features you want to see, well that's just something you want but aren't getting. Sorry. No OS is perfect. Not a single one and someone will ALWAYS have some issue or other but quite honestly if you're so unhappy with the way Apple are handling things and can only complain about the state of OSX I don't know why you're even using a Mac/OSX at all!! How about listing all the things you love about Apple/OSX now after that complaint-fest?
Seriously though, there is zero legibility issue in stacks. I've tested and could read fine. Maybe for poor eyesight but surely there'd be something in accessibility options for that.
I don't follow you. Time Machine is a finished product and is the best backup solution I've used (for free at least) and certainly far better than Microsoft can spew out.
Bugs will get fixed. The OS isn't finished yet. As for features you want to see, well that's just something you want but aren't getting. Sorry. No OS is perfect. Not a single one and someone will ALWAYS have some issue or other but quite honestly if you're so unhappy with the way Apple are handling things and can only complain about the state of OSX I don't know why you're even using a Mac/OSX at all!! How about listing all the things you love about Apple/OSX now after that complaint-fest?
Seriously though, there is zero legibility issue in stacks. I've tested and could read fine. Maybe for poor eyesight but surely there'd be something in accessibility options for that.
and as I said I personally tested and there is zero legibility issue. At least not on the public beta.
I don't follow you. Time Machine is a finished product and is the best backup solution I've used (for free at least) and certainly far better than Microsoft can spew out.
Bugs will get fixed. The OS isn't finished yet. As for features you want to see, well that's just something you want but aren't getting. Sorry. No OS is perfect. Not a single one and someone will ALWAYS have some issue or other but quite honestly if you're so unhappy with the way Apple are handling things and can only complain about the state of OSX I don't know why you're even using a Mac/OSX at all!! How about listing all the things you love about Apple/OSX now after that complaint-fest?
Seriously though, there is zero legibility issue in stacks. I've tested and could read fine. Maybe for poor eyesight but surely there'd be something in accessibility options for that.
Time Machine is great, I agree, but its never been finished, open Time Machine with Calendar, then Contacts, you'll see what I mean. Incremental restores are not fully implemented.
Legibility is more fact than opinion, I believe it looks OK for some but that doesn't mean its sharp or in focus. Sharpness is measurable, and its reasonably simple to magnify and compare pixels. Now people's tolerance is what I think is being expressed more than opinion. Some people never clean their glasses and it doesn't bother them, some people see every speck, (like me). Make sure when you look at Stacks you vary the background, you'll see the issue.
Complaint fest, probably, I'll admit I am starting to sound like a broken record to myself. To be honest I used lots of beta software, but never participated in these "public" forums. Lets just say its been an experience.
A list of why I am on Mac would be long, but to make a long story short, when Apple moved to Mach and the BSD stack I was all over it. A UNIX machine that runs PC software, nothing can top that. So now the Mac that was relegated to the corner was front and center. Yes I've owned 68K and PPC, that dates me.
So don't be too hard on the public discourse. Apple is fishing with this Beta, they distributed to a million people after all.
Apple can take criticism, its part of the culture. Personally I've filed 24 bugs, seems I'm working for Apple for free. Now that's something to gripe about!
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When I started this post almost 2 months ago I thought it would be buried in the mud with maybe 5 or 10 responses. Instead it's got one of the highest thread viewing counts in the Yosemite section. Apparently I'm no where near alone in my sentiments regarding these "improvement."
One of the things I find annoying, and this has been going on for some time at Apple, is that they seem to be on a march to not only uglify the UI, but make it more annoying to work with as well.
Aside from title bars, another annoyance, or should I say "improvement" with Safari is the elimination of icons in the reader sidebar, all to be replaced by the outlines of open books (simple.....clean.....flat.....stupid!!!). What I used to do was get links for some weather radar links and move them to the top of my bookmarks list with a group of other related icons. With the icons all now being replaced by the "beautiful, flat, simple" open-book icon it's now irritating and often difficult to put them in order. The bookmarks are, after all, hyperlinks, and when you slide one icon up over another you literally need to start re-reading hyperlinks to try and order them. This was easy with icons but with the new simple....clean.....flat.....stupid looking appearance it's annoying, difficult, and error prone. It's like Apple is going out of its way to deliberately irritate its own customers.
Someone else also mentioned stuff like the removal of Expose, which I thought was a great feature as well as other removals like the display icon in the menu bar. Were things like these REALLY confusing people. Were they REALLY that difficult to maintain in source code?
This is a classic example how NOT to do things. You don't take away features that improve things and replace them with bad ideas that don't.
...but now the entire user interface is being replaced in what can only be called the grandest of grand experiments in Apple's history.
The number of views and responses this thread is getting speaks for itself!
One of the things I find annoying, and this has been going on for some time at Apple, is that they seem to be on a march to not only uglify the UI, but make it more annoying to work with as well.
Aside from title bars, another annoyance, or should I say "improvement" with Safari is the elimination of icons in the reader sidebar, all to be replaced by the outlines of open books (simple.....clean.....flat.....stupid!!!). What I used to do was get links for some weather radar links and move them to the top of my bookmarks list with a group of other related icons. With the icons all now being replaced by the "beautiful, flat, simple" open-book icon it's now irritating and often difficult to put them in order. The bookmarks are, after all, hyperlinks, and when you slide one icon up over another you literally need to start re-reading hyperlinks to try and order them. This was easy with icons but with the new simple....clean.....flat.....stupid looking appearance it's annoying, difficult, and error prone. It's like Apple is going out of its way to deliberately irritate its own customers.
Someone else also mentioned stuff like the removal of Expose, which I thought was a great feature as well as other removals like the display icon in the menu bar. Were things like these REALLY confusing people. Were they REALLY that difficult to maintain in source code?
This is a classic example how NOT to do things. You don't take away features that improve things and replace them with bad ideas that don't.
...but now the entire user interface is being replaced in what can only be called the grandest of grand experiments in Apple's history.
The number of views and responses this thread is getting speaks for itself!
and as I said I personally tested and there is zero legibility issue. At least not on the public beta.
I don't follow you. Time Machine is a finished product and is the best backup solution I've used (for free at least) and certainly far better than Microsoft can spew out.
Bugs will get fixed. The OS isn't finished yet. As for features you want to see, well that's just something you want but aren't getting. Sorry. No OS is perfect. Not a single one and someone will ALWAYS have some issue or other but quite honestly if you're so unhappy with the way Apple are handling things and can only complain about the state of OSX I don't know why you're even using a Mac/OSX at all!! How about listing all the things you love about Apple/OSX now after that complaint-fest?
Seriously though, there is zero legibility issue in stacks. I've tested and could read fine. Maybe for poor eyesight but surely there'd be something in accessibility options for that.
Time Machine is a finished product ? No! LOL The Time machine is full of bugs
see the image
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*facepalm*
You're making your point using beta software. I wasn't talking about the beta at that point. Yes, I'm sure the Time Machine redesign has holes to pick and that's the point in a bloody beta!
Also @op I think you'll find a lot of it is people arguing your point as well.
Aesthetic changes aren't gonna impress everyone. Don't like it? Stick to an older version or move away from OSX. In my 4 years as a Mac user I've learned it's Apple's way or the highway. That's what you bought into. Personally I loved Aqua and never wanted to see it go. I still believe Snow Leopard was the best looking OSX version. However, I've learned to deal and get used to the changes as I'd still rather have the Apple experience in general.
I don't like their changes that much, but aesthetically Apple still do it best imho.
You're making your point using beta software. I wasn't talking about the beta at that point. Yes, I'm sure the Time Machine redesign has holes to pick and that's the point in a bloody beta!
Also @op I think you'll find a lot of it is people arguing your point as well.
Aesthetic changes aren't gonna impress everyone. Don't like it? Stick to an older version or move away from OSX. In my 4 years as a Mac user I've learned it's Apple's way or the highway. That's what you bought into. Personally I loved Aqua and never wanted to see it go. I still believe Snow Leopard was the best looking OSX version. However, I've learned to deal and get used to the changes as I'd still rather have the Apple experience in general.
I don't like their changes that much, but aesthetically Apple still do it best imho.
Thanks, OldGuyTom
Dislikes for the look (and more) of Yosemite are fairly widespread.
OS X Yosemite | Hacker News (2014-06)
Safari 8.0 gripe - comp.sys.mac.system (Google Groups, 2014-07-30)
Had a chance to try Yosemite today. - JLA FORUMS (2014-08-02)
Yosemite is ugly as hell has to be the worst look and feel of all the OS - The Something Awful Forums (2014-08-05)
Back to Mavericks!! - comp.sys.mac.system (Google Groups, 2014-08-06)
Another step towards Windows - JLA FORUMS (2014-08-27)
Postscript a few words from paid-up Mac Developer Program members (not representative of majority opinion, but it's unusual to find such things):
That's disappointing.
For me, the appearance differs. Most items are completely without an icon. Mavericks is better.
Highly experimental
People get burnt by the software, and by discussion of the pain.
+1
Preview: A closer look at OS X Yosemite, just in time for the public beta | Ars Technica (2014-07-23)
+1 to not spamming, but "I HATE YOSEMITE" is a reasonable comment.
I encourage people who dislike (or hate) the appearance of Yosemite to make clear their emotions in feedback to Apple. If that feedback can include a detailed explanation of why there's a negative reaction to the design, even better if a problem (or perception of a problem) is reproducible, that's ideal.
Dislikes for the look (and more) of Yosemite are fairly widespread.
OS X Yosemite | Hacker News (2014-06)
Safari 8.0 gripe - comp.sys.mac.system (Google Groups, 2014-07-30)
Had a chance to try Yosemite today. - JLA FORUMS (2014-08-02)
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tolerable. Frankly the overall look and feel is a big step backwards
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Yosemite is ugly as hell has to be the worst look and feel of all the OS - The Something Awful Forums (2014-08-05)
Back to Mavericks!! - comp.sys.mac.system (Google Groups, 2014-08-06)
Another step towards Windows - JLA FORUMS (2014-08-27)
Postscript a few words from paid-up Mac Developer Program members (not representative of majority opinion, but it's unusual to find such things):
- change for the sake of change (2014-06-05)
- Yosemite is butt-ugly (2014-07-14)
- mature and stable I agree Yosemite is pig-ugly (2014-07-16)
- style and the elegance. That went out with Yosemite. (2014-07-25)
- it hurts my eyes to look at the screen (2014-08-27)
That's disappointing.
For me, the appearance differs. Most items are completely without an icon. Mavericks is better.
Highly experimental
People get burnt by the software, and by discussion of the pain.
+1
Preview: A closer look at OS X Yosemite, just in time for the public beta | Ars Technica (2014-07-23)
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don't think that complaining will get you your old interface backspamming Apple with "I HATE YOSEMITE" messages isn't going to help anybody.
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+1 to not spamming, but "I HATE YOSEMITE" is a reasonable comment.
I encourage people who dislike (or hate) the appearance of Yosemite to make clear their emotions in feedback to Apple. If that feedback can include a detailed explanation of why there's a negative reaction to the design, even better if a problem (or perception of a problem) is reproducible, that's ideal.
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and as I said I personally tested and there is zero legibility issue. At least not on the public beta.
I don't follow you. Time Machine is a finished product and is the best backup solution I've used (for free at least) and certainly far better than Microsoft can spew out.
Bugs will get fixed. The OS isn't finished yet. As for features you want to see, well that's just something you want but aren't getting. Sorry. No OS is perfect. Not a single one and someone will ALWAYS have some issue or other but quite honestly if you're so unhappy with the way Apple are handling things and can only complain about the state of OSX I don't know why you're even using a Mac/OSX at all!! How about listing all the things you love about Apple/OSX now after that complaint-fest?
Instead of being able to put my computer to sleep (because NFS isn't a recognized sleep token and it would take Apple maybe 5 minutes to FIX this and despite several bug reports, they obviously find fracking with the GUI graphics to be their top priority). Frankly, your apologetic list of excuses for Apple doesn't help that issue any.
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