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Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?

Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?

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svenmany said:
I know I was able to reproduce what you're seeing, each of those controls being rendered differently. However, now, as I try again, they look identical on my computer. They both appear as your wifi popup appears. So, not only inconsistent across space, but also across time.
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I thought it was because of what was behind the menu but I tried all different things and got the same two styles. Even if it is because of what’s behind the menu and having different styles is expected behaviour that just proves Liquid Glass is not fit for purpose. Having to constantly change the UI to suit your content is an absurd idea and approach. No matter how well you do it you will never manage to cover every eventuality and there will always be horrible visual clashes and getting used to seeing something in white then all of a sudden it’s black is jarring to say the least. How is that ‘getting out of the way’ Apple?

It’s like responsive web design. It might look good at certain widths but there’s always going to be someone viewing it at a weird width as they manually resize their window and the algorithm simply can’t/wont take it into account. It’s an ‘it’ll do / cost saving’ approach to cover as many aspects as possible but none of them done well.

Real design needs structure and hierarchy and should never be left to chance. Without them you have designed nothing.
 
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kkclstuff said:
in the spirit of (better) understanding, do you mean "I am fine with the look of LG" as a concept or in practical everyday useage?

I ask to try and understand how 'the users that like LG' feel about all the images of poor design and anomalies posted here. I posted an image of WHITE on WHITE And light GREY on GREY earlier and would honestly like to hear from users if that is... 'do-able', acceptable, workable for you in your everyday Mac usage.


Dannyyankou's post is another great example of the issues with LG


I'm not looking for a heated discussion 'for or against' on the topic, just honest feedback (from the PRO-LG camp) on how these elements 'don't bother/hinder you' in realistic terms of using the GUI everyday. (If anything maybe itll help me gauge just how bad my sight is now... some of the macOS 26 issues seem too big to just hinder me. 😄)
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I am fine as a concept, but this look is for an iPhone that is still 2 years away. I am hearing the 20 year anniversary phone is going to be mostly of glass and expect to launch in 2027. I think they launched the glass look too soon. It is not fully baked…
 
vi2867 said:
I am fine as a concept, but this look is for an iPhone that is still 2 years away. I am hearing the 20 year anniversary phone is going to be mostly of glass and expect to launch in 2027. I think they launched the glass look too soon. It is not fully baked…
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You make good points about the liquid glass UI implying future product/s (as qualified above) and I commented in another topic about an all glass iPhone being an early aspiration expressed by Johnny Ive years back.

Yet if the aim is to create a transparent physical-material device you then need to have an opaque interface, and as I previously commented, liquid glass has this totally backwards. Unless Apple want the whole thing to feel like it's an ALL GLASS device, including the UI, that the iPhone is made of a uni-material, that the user can not tell where the digital and physical start and end.

Makes me think of the GUI like a bubble(s) inside hand blown glass object. An artefact of the hand crafted process, an imperfection that adds some human touch / aesthetic character to the object.

Except the bubble is now dynamic. Sometimes you can see it, sometimes not. A glass within glass approach. That's totally nuts.

Ultimately glass is a medium in the equation, or to put it another way, we do not need to see the air to hear the sound.

Thus elevating the medium above that which has to be delivered (content) has grossly failed.
 
Liquid Glass has its own big share of issues, but Howard Oakley apps have even more issues, it's not Apple fault that after 16 years he's not even using Auto Layout, or does not know how to set the title bars mode.
 
Only if your app won't ever need to be translated, and if the labels in the UI never changes length. Even normal NIB springs & struts are automatically translated to Auto Layout by default.

Anyway, they made it clear that the new SDK uses different metric, so that part of his complains is moot, and it only happens when the app is compiled with the new SDK, it's not like the old compiled binaries are broken. There is even a way to use the old metrics if someone doesn't want to bother.
 
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I love Liquid Glass
Alan Dye is a genius

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If someone is willing to test, it might be helpful.

Hidden Bold text setting in Tahoe - turn it on by Siri and see if it makes any difference in Apple News, Messages, Safari or Weather. If it works, post the result and your Mac model here
“Liquid Glass for the visually impaired” https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/liquid-glass-for-the-visually-impaired.2466869/

More details “Is there a way to make all text bold in macOS, like you can with iOS/iPadOS?”
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...n-macos-like-you-can-with-ios-ipados.2416635/
 
ResolutionNZ said:
Great video, @MacRumors should promote this video.
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But, watch it carefully. He doesn't supply any evidence that the graphical effects contribute to the differences in battery consumption, yet he asserts it is the case. He also glosses over the result that Tahoe battery performance improved on the m3. I didn't find much education value in the video except that it might motivate someone with more serious skills to investigate further.
 
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tkermit said:
I wonder how it ever came to this. Just seems so sloppy:

tonsky.me

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
tonsky.me tonsky.me

I like the conclusion though.
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Kinda ironic that an article about good interface design is hosted on a page with fake snow constantly crossing over the content (yeah I noticed you can turn it off but still).
 
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n-evo said:
Kinda ironic that an article about good interface design is hosted on a page with fake snow constantly crossing over the content (yeah I noticed you can turn it off but still).
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Act 'tis (still) Christmas, and at least the text is not frosted over or all blurry 'cause it Liquid Snow'd or something!

Not sure about the yellow when turned off, I mean, that can't all be yellow snow right? 😅
 
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n-evo said:
Kinda ironic that an article about good interface design is hosted on a page with fake snow constantly crossing over the content (yeah I noticed you can turn it off but still).
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The dark mode option on that page is an even better fit for Tahoe. Can barely read anything.
 
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