I find it maddening that there's no title bar though. I'm always trying to drag this window from the side bar, which doesn't work at all. Nor can you drag the resize handles to move the window, which usually works.
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Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?
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I've set Increase contrast - initially while playing about, but I decided I preferred it precisely because my eyes alight on the elements more readily.
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In dark modes, it is! But in light mode, especially on the bigger screens of my MBP and mini, I prefer it.
It's the main reason I'm not updating.
Sadly, it does appear to be a disease, though, as Firefox have adopted the same madness. Thankfully, Firefox can be tamed via CSS, which I have, of course, done.
looking across all the macOS app, (Home in this instance) there are SO many bugs and visual failures in the GUI.
Heres Home.app opened at first the TABS were visible, but as soon as you select an item to edit they disappear (the TABs are still there if you click the 'area', just NOT visible!!)
Heres Home.app opened at first the TABS were visible, but as soon as you select an item to edit they disappear (the TABs are still there if you click the 'area', just NOT visible!!)
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The rounded corners everywhere just overpowers everything. It does the absolute opposite of 'blending in'.
Except when they completely disappear.
Oh and where's the glass?!
The new macOS 26.2 beta 3 dev build has a bug where if you list Wi-Fi networks in control center with a white background (like a Safari/Chrome webpage in the background), it becomes unreadable.
I can forgive that in a beta. Unfortunately, even the latest official release is still full of interesting visual behaviors:
To me it looks like you have all of the fonts in the left list selected. This is because the right list shows us that selecting an item gives it a gray background.
So, what happens to the text when all fonts are selected? Maybe it turns the text into liquid glass itself, and becomes transparent?
As I write this, 70.5 percent of the vote is against Liquid Glass.
As an aside, check out the extremely high level of customization one may achieve with BSD ... here's a gallery of various user's screen shots using a wide range of window managers and desktop environments: https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/452-show-us-your-screen
As an aside, check out the extremely high level of customization one may achieve with BSD ... here's a gallery of various user's screen shots using a wide range of window managers and desktop environments: https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/452-show-us-your-screen
One of Apple's goals, it is said, has always been to offer limited customization of the user interface in order to achieve continuity between the various Macs so as not to confuse the user. This was based on the principle that the interface chosen by Apple was the best possible. Then came iOS, iPadOS, visionOS... and at this point, they lost sight of Jobs' vision, which was to standardize (we were talking about Macs) but also to recognize the unique features of each system... the user experience WAS king.
Yeah but Macs need to be Macs and not iOS imo. iOS is “macOS for babies” as Sam Tucker joked. He’s right though. iOS is insultingly simplistic and unacceptable on Macs.
Thanks for sharing all the feedback on Tahoe people. I think I'm gonna be skipping Tahoe entirely, once I get a Mac that can run it. Hopefully its successor will... um.. be less awful. Sequoia is fine until then.
You know what surprises me about liquid glass? That Apple would allow a design that leads to sub optimal results based on things they don't have control over, like web page and user wallpaper.
When iOS allowed tinted icons, I saw people post screenshots of their home screen that they were clearly happy with, but to me all the screen shots just looked aweful. But whatever, you know. I'm sure other people think my desktop is an abomination .
Apple, otoh, famously wants to control the user experience. I know Steve Jobs would look at that and say hell no
When iOS allowed tinted icons, I saw people post screenshots of their home screen that they were clearly happy with, but to me all the screen shots just looked aweful. But whatever, you know. I'm sure other people think my desktop is an abomination .
Apple, otoh, famously wants to control the user experience. I know Steve Jobs would look at that and say hell no
For many years, whilst not a formal trainer, I did spend quite a bit of time helping end users.
That is one reason my usual approach is to make few changes from the basic in terms of appearance and function. Every time my machine diverged, I could end up getting it wrong. It was bad enough that I had to adapt to all the changes some end users made!
To a very large extent I still prefer to keep most things in their "as released" state. But this Liquid Glass mess has forced me to make more adjustments than ever before.
Yes. It's the equivalent of typing in ALL CAPS.
With the absence of Jobs and Jony Ives, obsession on design and particularly design details is dead at apple. Steve Jobs purportedly rejected designs, and required moving a single pixel, whether that's apocryphal or not is immaterial as it sounds like something he would do. Today, the attention to detail is clearly an after thoughtApple, otoh, famously wants to control the user experience. I know Steve Jobs would look at that and say hell no
We've gone for a snow theme today, because why the heck not.
If dark/light transition happens when system settings window is open then this piece does not update until window is closed and reopened. It is more pronounced when Liquid Glass setting is set to "Tinted" as this increases contrast of these elements.
Why is the appearance of tabs not consistent system wide?
I would guess that there are differences stemming from the fact that they were created at different times and in different programming languages. There is no uniformity in the operating system code, which forces current programmers to apply a band-aid solution every time. I repeat: in my opinion, a new release of the operating system should focus on less ‘sexy’ improvements rather than updates to peripheral apps presented as stars. I would like the changelogs to reflect the ‘under the hood’ improvements.
So what you're saying is emojis are not a core functionality of the OS worthy of mass marketing campaigns and endless headlines lauding their greatness?