It's my preference. Why put the lights there at all if they are not easy to click on?
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Is there any way in God's green earth to make the traffic light dots BIGGER?
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I am nowhere close to 20/20 vision, even with glasses my vision is quite bad. But I can get by just fine with native resolution.
I agree. Also, I find the classic menu system Windows has (File, Edit, View, etc) to be much harder to read than Apple's implementation. It is actually on Windows I need to lower my resolution as the menu bar is an old 1990s style.
The “lights” are a relic and an indicator
Why is your preference to do things the hard way?
Don't bother me with that bad faith nonsense, macOS has accessibility options.
Why are people asking “why are you trying to click on them?”
That’s literally the only point of them …to be clicked
That’s literally the only point of them …to be clicked
It’s also simpler and more efficient to use the keyboard in windows as well
Every time you reach for the mouse when you could be using the keyboard you are cheating yourself
Not sure how using an extra device makes it more accessible ?
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And if you only use windows why do you care about something in macOS anyway?
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Yes they are there to be clicked, but if Simeon is having trouble clicking them for some reason then there is another option, which just so happenes
to be easier and more ergonomic than grabbing for the mouse
I think we all get that, but it’s a different topic than wanting some accessibility options for the UI
Some people get my point. Some don't. You don't. That is fine with me.
The ability to scale various parts of the UI to suit the users preferences, or needs
That’s precisely what accessibility settings are / are for
… to make something more “accessible”
You can set command-scroll (or whatever you want) to zoom the ui
You could change the resolution
Maybe you just need a larger monitor?
Or again, and I don’t understand why this isn’t a good enough solution, just use the keyboard to manipulate windows like I presume most people do
I give up
The internet has become exhausting
For some reason, nothing can be discussed without some version of "yeah but..." showing up everywhere
I wish people would realize that you don't have to comment on something ... especially if you don't actually understand what is being asked about or discussed.
It's ok to "not comment"
😣
The internet has become exhausting
For some reason, nothing can be discussed without some version of "yeah but..." showing up everywhere
I wish people would realize that you don't have to comment on something ... especially if you don't actually understand what is being asked about or discussed.
It's ok to "not comment"
😣
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It doesn’t need “fixing” as it’s not “broken”. They are plenty large enough to see and click.
It’s not a Fisher-Price UI.
EDIT: They are large enough unless there are vision or maybe control issues, or if you have a 16” MBP, then yes, they could be larger.
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Maybe it’s okay for you, but you’re literally replying to a thread made by someone who finds those buttons inadequate and too small. To argue that they’re “plenty large enough to see and click” in this thread just comes across as being wilfully obtuse.
That's a really terrible thing to say. With the accessibility dynamic text sizes turned up to the largest size on an iPhone you'd probably say the same thing and some people need it to be like that.
Which do you use for iOS? I have Adguard and Norton Ad Blocker which were working great for years, but lately don’t seem to do anything, there are ads everywhere
well. while i also prefer keyboard shortcuts, there's no keyboard shortcut for the green (Zoom) button.
yes, there's a Zoom menu to which, with some effort, you can assign a shortcut (which is an option for rather advanced users). plus, not all apps even have this menu.
but even if you do assign a shortcut to the Zoom menu, it still remains useless due to the IDIOTIC way the action of this button is implemented:
option-clicking the Zoom button makes the button act in its originally intended way (that is, zoom instead of full-screen).
BUT selecting the Zoom menu while holding Option makes ALL windows zoom (which was the original behavior before the full-screen action was implemented).
bottom line: there's no choice but to use the mouse when dealing with at least the green button.
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