It seems like productivity isn’t in the companies lexicon.
Great idea, yet this crew may love pineapple.
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Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?
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Just to again illustrate a bug/shortcoming (26—26.0.1), why would one Mac app window (Audio Midi Setup) be in dark mode while the others(and whole System) are in light mode? [Toggling, or setting to Light or Auto have no effect.] I'm sure it 'slipped by someone' but the point is that this shouldn't happen.
PS> is anyone seeing this in Audio Midi Setup on their Mac?
PS> is anyone seeing this in Audio Midi Setup on their Mac?
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I am 100% certain that if Apple were to make a car with windows like this, droves of Apple fans would buy it and celebrate the revolutionary innovation.
@kkclstuff - Thx for posting that image.
I could pull examples from this one screenshot, ALL day.
This is HOT FRICKIN GARBAGE from Apple.
I could pull examples from this one screenshot, ALL day.
This is HOT FRICKIN GARBAGE from Apple.
How funny…
Yet not funny and sadly quite true!
Reminds one of “Apple knows what’s best”
It's called a cult for a reason. You see a similar condition with Tesla fans. Although now that Musk has turned into literal Hitler, I guess it has lessened a bit 🤪
I never liked rounded corners, but so far they didn't ever disturb me. In Tahoe and iPadOS 26 they have become so pronounced in some places that I find them distractingly ugly. They also waste space, which I don't appreciate.
I think I found a needle in a haystack.. I checked all the other apps in Utilities and even a restart, none show this anomaly—so a minor bug but no excuse for lack of diligence on 's part.
What irks me the most is, look at the shadow the dark window cast on the App's surrounding light windows. That messes with my (already poor) eyesight. Another example of what @thebart and I have been pointing out in other posts.
What irks me the most is, look at the shadow the dark window cast on the App's surrounding light windows. That messes with my (already poor) eyesight. Another example of what @thebart and I have been pointing out in other posts.
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I could defend technical bugs, but I can't defend Tahoe UI/UX.
Hell, I could defend Apple's Apple-knows-best attitude, if they were putting out the best UX/UI design. They aren't anymore.
This forum likes to dump on "user-made Linux themes" but in all honesty some third-party KDE themes are so much better than Tahoe.
But iPhone users don't care about rearranging external displays, so it's not an important feature.Really? That's lame. We've only been able to click and drag since the Monitors Control Panel was introduced with the Mac II in something like System 3.
Liquid Glass looks amazing in the Mail app while scrolling over light emails. The buttons on the menu (bar?) put on a nice light show before they land on 'opaque milk white'. Luckily emails with light background are super rare:
Apple's GUI designers who 'agonize over every little detail' must've spent weeks deciding on how to make an icon placed in said rounded corners look as uneven and too-close-to-the-edge as possible:
Create a lot of PDFs as well? Don't worry, page corners are now rounded too, and the Liquid Glass lighting illusion absolutely does not look like buggy UI artifacts. No, I can totally see the light hitting all that glass:
Editing your latest playlist? Has the nighttime edible kicked in yet? You're about to go on a trippy journey while honing in on the song currently playing, then clicking on the tiny scrubber bar to activate scrub mode, where you can then scrub to another part of the song in 3 easy steps and just some minor eye squinting:
Apple touts Tahoe as an OS that doesn't get in the user's way, and I have to agree as adjusting your eyes to see what was once clear, and the need for an additional click or two in some apps certainly justifies these claims.
And sure, the control bar looks like you can move it, and you feel compelled to do so, but you can't. Apple wants you to see that Liquid Glass in action. But, in their defense, it's not like there would be any other place within the Music app to place it, right?
And, we can't really complain about the new Contacts App in Tahoe with its 'placeholder' and or 'empty template' aesthetic, it's not Apple's fault that we didn't create Contact Posters for the hundreds and or thousands of contacts that we've accumulated since 2007:
Another example of how that Liquid Glass effect really gives a clean and airy vibe to your desktop. You can spot the control you're looking for instantly. Perfect for those with mild OCD:
Not really last, and certainly not least, so it's worth mentioning that Apple did an amazing job creating 'Dark Mode' versions of Liquid Glass icons for their own iWork suite of apps:
Apple's GUI designers who 'agonize over every little detail' must've spent weeks deciding on how to make an icon placed in said rounded corners look as uneven and too-close-to-the-edge as possible:
Create a lot of PDFs as well? Don't worry, page corners are now rounded too, and the Liquid Glass lighting illusion absolutely does not look like buggy UI artifacts. No, I can totally see the light hitting all that glass:
Editing your latest playlist? Has the nighttime edible kicked in yet? You're about to go on a trippy journey while honing in on the song currently playing, then clicking on the tiny scrubber bar to activate scrub mode, where you can then scrub to another part of the song in 3 easy steps and just some minor eye squinting:
Apple touts Tahoe as an OS that doesn't get in the user's way, and I have to agree as adjusting your eyes to see what was once clear, and the need for an additional click or two in some apps certainly justifies these claims.
And sure, the control bar looks like you can move it, and you feel compelled to do so, but you can't. Apple wants you to see that Liquid Glass in action. But, in their defense, it's not like there would be any other place within the Music app to place it, right?
And, we can't really complain about the new Contacts App in Tahoe with its 'placeholder' and or 'empty template' aesthetic, it's not Apple's fault that we didn't create Contact Posters for the hundreds and or thousands of contacts that we've accumulated since 2007:
Another example of how that Liquid Glass effect really gives a clean and airy vibe to your desktop. You can spot the control you're looking for instantly. Perfect for those with mild OCD:
Not really last, and certainly not least, so it's worth mentioning that Apple did an amazing job creating 'Dark Mode' versions of Liquid Glass icons for their own iWork suite of apps:
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