Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?

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Apple started allowing this flexibility with the window control buttons starting OS X Yosemite and it’s been a mess ever since. And now with macOS Tahoe we can add the window corner radius to that as well. Nice.

Anybody using Microsoft Office deserves not just rounded window corners, they deserve round, circular windows. It's called Karma.

Just like your SSD issues: karma for ✨whatever✨

 

[Comfortably Numb]

Just like your SSD issues: karma for ✨whatever✨

 

[Wolf1701]

Yep, that's Tahoe. Apparently, they made energy management more "efficient" (read: more aggressive), leading to disks getting ejected. From what I read...

My SSDs are fairly new, and it happens to two different SSDs, so I can pretty much rule out any hardware issues. And the fact that this never happened before and only started exactly after updating to Tahoe is probably no coincidence.

If they are sandisk... this happened also in sequoia. Samsung t7 and another 'custom' samsung 990pro are ok (in sequoia), 24/7... great, now I have to test them in my M1 with tahoe to be sure :-/

 

[Sital]

Why is everyone looking at window corners?

 

[Wolf1701]

Why is everyone looking at window corners?

It's subjective, but I find these (I wish I were, but I'm not) floating graphic elements much more distracting than the corners.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Why is everyone looking at window corners?

Because there are four of them on every window and when they are too rounded it looks silly and when there are mismatches across Apps is distracting as heck.

 

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Why is everyone looking at window corners?

Because there are quite a few corners on my screen at every given time and there are essential window elements very near them.

Also let’s flip this around: if nobody is looking at them to begin with Apple could have kept them just square like during the Platinum days.

 

[Comfortably Numb]

Personally, I don't really care about the rounded windows. I am fine with them either way, but I do prefer the more subtle ones in macOS 15.

What I find far more distracting and outright embarrassing are all the little inconsistencies and outright bugs, with misaligned elements and text bleeding through into text input fields (like in the settings app). It's a bug fest that every single Apple engineer involved should feel deeply ashamed about.

I would understand crap like that in a volunteer Linux desktop GUI maintained by a bunch of students in their spare time, but not when it comes from the multi-trillion-dollar company Apple. It's inexcusable, indefensible, and embarrassing.

 

[MBAir2010]

i canged my vote to NO and than change my MacBook prerence since this runs better!
see.....

 

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Personally, I don't really care about the rounded windows. I am fine with them either way, but I do prefer the more subtle ones in macOS 15.

I could live with the oversized ones if they at least were consistent throughout the OS. I really don’t like the precedent here that apparently every app developer can now decide for themselves what they’re doing. Already hated that about all the randomly aligned traffic light buttons.

 

[flowrider]

I even enjoyed the very early MS Office for Mac icons.

This shows how much they've all been cut down to bleh / boring 🥱

It's so dull to have everything be "en-squircled"

Downloaded MS Office Version 16.102 Today - New Icons



Lou

 

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I even enjoyed the very early MS Office for Mac icons.

This shows how much they've all been cut down to bleh / boring 🥱

It's so dull to have everything be "en-squircled"

The purely letter ones were epic. Especially compared to the incredibly dull and archaic looking ones from Windows.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Downloaded MS Office Version 16.102 Today - New Icons

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Lou

Yeah, I noticed this yesterday also (pic from my dock on the side, below)

I would like it more if not "contained" in the 26 squircle that every icon is now restricted to... and so many have become. I miss how icons used to have their own personality entirely.

Also, I still don't understand why all the 26 icons (mac or iOS) are sort of "fuzzy" and not super sharp.
What is everyone doing? Or what is the guidance and why?

Below is my Dock and, not sure if it comes through here, but on my Mac, the new Excel icon isn't as sharp as all the other icons.

 

[tkermit]

Also, I still don't understand why all the 26 icons (mac or iOS) are sort of "fuzzy" and not super sharp.
What is everyone doing? Or what is the guidance and why?

I think it's just a "vibe" thing. After living with them for a while, the new icons feel beautiful to me now.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I think it's just a "vibe" thing. After living with them for a while, the new icons feel beautiful to me now.

Agree to disagree I guess.

Here's a good, large, comparison of Liquid Glass MS Word, vs the new icon pulled from MS website.

I vastly prefer the MS version that isn't in "Squircle Jail", and also doesn't have the amatuer hour "I just discovered Photoshop filters" thing going with the Apple 26 LG updates. All of the "effects" on LG are what scale down so poorly and contribute to making it look less sharp at smaller sizes most often seen by users.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Found a new Excel icon that isn't LG-ified that I've installed and prefer.

 

[BigBlur]

I would like it more if not "contained" in the 26 squircle that every icon is now restricted to... and so many have become. I miss how icons used to have their own personality entirely.

MacOS 26 doesn't restrict the icons to be contained in a squircle. That is the app developer's doing...but yeah, I wish it wasn't the "standard".

You can go find the icons you like and replace them.

 

[BB8]

MacOS 26 doesn't restrict the icons to be contained in a squircle. That is the app developer's doing...but yeah, I wish it wasn't the "standard".

pretty sure apple does put apps into a grey squircle jail by default, obviously you can still change them to whatever you want after

that said i enjoy squircle life and prefer the icons to be consistent. and i don't think apple is going back any time soon. also, nothing is stopping developers from making more interesting icons that fill the entire squircle rather than just being a glyph inside a box.

 

[Comfortably Numb]

It doesn't bother me (I probably wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't pointed out to me), but I agree it looks kind of awkward with some icons, especially those that are round (and then forced into a square). A good example is the Chrome icon. It gets even weirder with icons that also have a square form, but with some kind of 3D perspective. Example: The Notion icon.

It's one of those things no one asked for and that doesn't improve anybody's life whatsoever. In other words: Useless crap.

 

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pretty sure apple does put apps into a grey squircle jail by default, obviously you can still change them to whatever you want after

that said i enjoy squircle life and prefer the icons to be consistent. and i don't think apple is going back any time soon. also, nothing is stopping developers from making more interesting icons that fill the entire squircle rather than just being a glyph inside a box.

I see what you mean now. That explains why the icon for Omnissa looks off amongst the others. (Apparently, it's the only app I have that doesn't have a squircle icon in its package contents.) I thought they were being dumb and not using black for their dark icon...but it's Apple that's doing it...ugh.

 

[BB8]

aside from consistency and brand identity the main reason squircles were introduced in the first place was to clearly delineate tap targets on iOS. with rumors floating that apple is going to finally do a touch screen mac, not surprising that they are pushing this more than before.

 

[turbineseaplane]

It's one of those things no one asked for and that doesn't improve anybody's life whatsoever. In other words: Useless crap.

A perfect summary

 

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Agree to disagree I guess.

Here's a good, large, comparison of Liquid Glass MS Word, vs the new icon pulled from MS website.

I vastly prefer the MS version that isn't in "Squircle Jail", and also doesn't have the amatuer hour "I just discovered Photoshop filters" thing going with the Apple 26 LG updates. All of the "effects" on LG are what scale down so poorly and contribute to making it look less sharp at smaller sizes most often seen by users.

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Tbh I like the macOS one a lot more. I think it’s a nice touch they made a dedicated macOS variant to begin with.

I just wish the Office apps themselves would look remotely as good. When I look at the icon I go “OOOOOOOOOooohhhhh” and then after clicking I go “Ughhhhh”.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Tbh I like the macOS one a lot more. I think it’s a nice touch they made a dedicated macOS variant to begin with.

I just wish the Office apps themselves would look remotely as good. When I look at the icon I go “OOOOOOOOOooohhhhh” and then after clicking I go “Ughhhhh”.

The devil is in the details.
It looks fine at huge sizes, but scales down incredibly poorly.

A main reason for the "blurry look" is those overdone Photoshop effects never work as intended at small sizes.
The Apple "designers" should take some lessons from folks who learned that decades ago.

 

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I have my Dock set to exactly 48 pixels through a Terminal command and experience no blurriness on my MacBook Pro M4 Pro. 🤷‍♂️