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Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Mojave 10.14.1 to Developers

chucker23n1 said:
This matters a lot less on retina displays because the pixels are already small enough for the subpixel effect to be of much additional help. But for non-retina displays, it's a bit unfortunate.
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Thanks for the thorough reply. I think I understand the issue better.

Is there any way to turn subpixel anti-aliasing off on High Sierra so that I can know what to expect on Mojave? You had me feeling less worryied about it until your last sentence. I realize a lot of this is subjective, which makes it difficult to evaluate.
 
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1050792 said:
I agree, the old Mavericks times were a joy to use, the UI used to be so smooth and eye pleasing. Now we got unreadable fonts and badly executed Dark Modes.
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It does make sense so you shutdown and let all ram processes clear themselves.
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Since neither your posts are productive at all, I'll from now on stop answering them. Enjoy your Mojave.
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I will!

I hope you're able to get your issues fixed - though I have a sneaking suspicion that even if you do, you won't admit it.
 
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MacBird said:
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Would you know what the Terminal command does? It works relatively well for my MBA and Apple Cinema Display and was suggested by someone on Reddit:

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
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Yeah, that one's baffling. It does indeed appear to bring back High Sierra's behavior: subpixel rendering is back in, for instance, System Preferences, but not Safari.

My guess is this setting won't be around/meaningful for very long.
 
chucker23n1 said:
Yeah, that one's baffling. It does indeed appear to bring back High Sierra's behavior: subpixel rendering is back in, for instance, System Preferences, but not Safari.

My guess is this setting won't be around/meaningful for very long.
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Thank you for finally agreeing with me :D

It's working in Safari for me. Are you using a non-Retina Mac?
And it's rendering the menubar text with very subpixel-like colour fringing... :eek:
 
bladerunner2000 said:
Truthfully, you should probably always do a clean install like that whenever possible. You get rid of bloat and likely wont get the issues you have now.
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For some reason the Mojave clean install leaves an “Untitled” mounted disk on the system’s desktop, which you can simply eject. It is not the USB drive I used to install it, as that was separate.

Also on a clean install, I have experienced:

During iCloud login - “Unable to login to iCloud”, however upon going into System Prefs, it was logged in, but random features such as iCloud Drive and Keychain were turned off.

Dock still pops up randomly when switching between full screen apps.

FaceTime seems to disable Wi-Fi calling on every reboot - the option to receive calls when your iPhone is nearby is still enabled, but the Enable Wi-Fi calling prompt keeps coming back. Also there is a graphical glitch with the Enable button when you do turn it on (it overlaps the level of text below it until you quit FaceTime and open it up again).

With FileVault enabled, after a reboot at the user login screen, the user’s icon is a blank (and misaligned) silhouette placeholder, however the separate Admin account shows the correct user icon.

Full screen apps do not properly adjust their transparent background to the default dynamic desert wallpaper as it changes throughout the day. Taking the app out of full screen and back in will adjust it, but I feel it should do this automatically as your background changes (I am aware this has always been a characteristic of full screen apps when you change your wallpaper, but if they are going to make a big deal out of dynamic wallpapers, they should make it work right).

The iOS app kit apps (Home, News, etc) are randomly very, very slow to launch. Sometimes they take just a few seconds to open, sometimes it is ~10 seconds.

Booting is much slower with FileVault enabled, compared to HS, and flashes briefly to an Apple logo screen which it also did not do in HS. This may be some (security) change to how FileVault/APFS works though.

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No doubt most of these “issues” will be fixed, but I can definitely feel a performance hit compared to HS. I really hope they fix the dock popping up in full screen apps soon, as I exclusively use full screen and it’s driving me nuts.
 
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noraa said:
I think a LOT of people, myself included, strongly disagree with you. Outside of dark mode, the UI is largely unchanged - and while most people (again, myself included) really like dark mode, you don't have to use it if you don't want to. As for everything else, I honestly can speak towards that because I haven't had a single one of those issues. Perhaps there's an issue with your install, or maybe even a hardware issue with your MBP?

It's beyond frustrating when users take their single experience and act as if it is the experience of ALL users, when the evidence points otherwise.
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UI is largely unchanged... are you on drugs?
 
archvile said:
The iOS app kit apps (Home, News, etc) are randomly very, very slow to launch. Sometimes they take just a few seconds to open, sometimes it is ~10 seconds.
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I've noticed this as well. The delay to launch, along with the noticeable reduced UI performance of these apps, makes me wonder if there's some sort of emulation layer that needs to be optimized. I expected these apps to run blisteringly fact, due to the fact that they are essentially iOS apps running on a Mac with desktop-class performance, but nope. I'm a bit disappointed in that.
 
chucker23n1 said:
You cannot. Before Mojave and starting with 10.5 Leopard which first shipped Core Animation, subpixel rendering was only available for non-layer-backed views (i.e. ones rendered without Core Animation, i.e. without GPU assist). For example, the translucent menu bar introduced in Leopard and made mandatory in 10.10 Yosemite never had subpixel-rendered text.

Starting in Mojave, most (all?) stuff gets opted into layer backing automatically. For layer-backed views, Apple never bothered to implement subpixel rendering.

As a result of those factors, subpixel rendering is basically a thing of the past.

I'm also not whining about everything. But no, you cannot enable it. There's nothing to "enable"; the implementation just isn't there (in Core Animation).
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get your facts straight. people like you pissing me off acting like they know everything... yes you can enable and i've just posted and again i will post this again for you

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
 
1050792 said:
Worst release ever, Ugly UI, broken font readability, insane battery drains, even more choppy UI than HS, audio pops still present on the 2018 MBP’s, Safari hanging... what the hell Apple?
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Sucks! Running like a top on my 2014 MBP.
 
noraa said:
I think a LOT of people, myself included, strongly disagree with you. Outside of dark mode, the UI is largely unchanged - and while most people (again, myself included) really like dark mode, you don't have to use it if you don't want to. As for everything else, I honestly can speak towards that because I haven't had a single one of those issues. Perhaps there's an issue with your install, or maybe even a hardware issue with your MBP?

It's beyond frustrating when users take their single experience and act as if it is the experience of ALL users, when the evidence points otherwise.
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Yup anecdotal evidence is rife on tech forums. Mojave has been the best OS I’ve ran (including the betas so far) on my ‘14 MBP in a very long time.
 
1050792 said:
I do clearly speak for myself, this worst dark mode UI I have ever seen also I can not stop using it since there's no way to have the light UI with the menubar and dock Dark 100% as prior to Mojave. If you do not experience choppiness add atleast 10 images to your downloads folder (or any folder and put it in the dock) try opening it in Grid and you'll see what I'm talking about, that didn't happen in High Sierra.
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I keep my downloads folder in the dock and it’s full of stuff. No choppiness.
 
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