macOS 10.14 Mojave: All The Little Things

[Budder]

Or rubbish, or even rubbish bin. I'd also like Movies renamed to Films.

Yes! that would be amazing!

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I've now switched to Eng Aus and it's called bin. I hope they change it in the British one but until they do, I'm keeping it like this.

 

[AZhappyjack]

Finder Preferences now has an option to display recent apps in the Dock... a la iPad.



Also, when capturing a screenprint now, the image hovers in the lower right corner of screen, a la iOS... probably for the purpose of using Markup on the image.

 

[Prof.]

Is dashboard finally dead?

Also, is the calculator bug fixed?

 

[Cougarcat]

Is dashboard finally dead?

Also, is the calculator bug fixed?

Dashboard is still there.

 

[Mr Todhunter]

It seems that buttons look less flat with dark theme only. With light theme, they look same to me.

Bummer 🙂

 

[Janichsan]

The same procedure as every year: does Aperture still work?

 

[HyperliteG4]

Please don't take offence I am genuinely curious... is it still common to do all this now and what are the benefits?
Why not just use docker (and docker compose for dev) so it works with this years update, next years update, the year after that etc.?
Also allows you to run projects with a mixture of PHP or DB versions with no stress.

No offense taken! I'm still learning docker. I haven't set it up on my Mac yet, but I have on a Ubuntu server that I have for home automation & Plex. I still need to play around with proper setup config for running it on my Mac for web development and multiple projects. I love Laravel Valet for this reason: Valet makes it incredibly easy to spin up a new site... so if I can figure out how to get docker set up this way I'll likely switch over.

 

[chucker23n1]

Lovely. I may imagine things but remember seeing a picture of Steve and some candy colored aqua buttons ("look so good you'll want to lick them") on a keynote before OSX was released but I guess the just went for Blue/Graphite color options on final release. Now I hope for Dynamic Accent Colors so I don't have to choose.

The first demo of Aqua was at Macworld Expo 2000, and buttons were mostly as shipped. (From that keynote: "We call the new user interface Aqua, because it's liquid. One of the design goals was: you want to lick it.")

One difference is that there was a purple window widget then for a single-window mode that never made it to the final 10.0 release.

(edit) I stand slightly corrected. Here's a slide that does show multi-accent-color widgets:

I don't believe this ever shipped, though.

 

[xdexina]

The white Launchpad folder still bugs me in Dark Mode
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How do you guys use the launchpad icons so big?
It's actually the first thing I change when installing new OS...
I match my app icons size to the icons on the dock

 

[cambookpro]

Dark Mode is not one set colour; it subtly changes depending on your desktop background.

 

[gabe211]

Is there a Dark Mode for Safari? I mean, does it turn light web content into dark?

There's a dark interface for Safari but only on the tabs, address bar, etc ... it will not change page content and should not change page content.

I fininding that in Safari some sites actually do change when switching between modes. Anyone else see this?

Ex. Visit this site in Safari and toggle modes: https://codekitapp.com

Haven't looked too much into i'm thinking it may be on sites that are not declaring a background-color for the body in css?

 

[StellarVixen]

Dark Mode is not one set colour; it subtly changes depending on your desktop background.

I love how that "Muscari" flower wallpaper from iOS 11 goes well with dark theme. There is definitely some machine learning involved here.

 

[Cougarcat]

I love how that "Muscari" flower wallpaper from iOS 11 goes well with dark theme. There is definitely some machine learning involved here.

They talk about how dark mode changes depending on your wallpaper in the Dark Mode WWDC session here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/210 (12:10).

What I found interesting is that it's a dynamic process, so if you move the window from a lighter part of the background to a darker part, it will also change.

Strangely, Graphite mode disables this. IMO, that should be a separate setting.

 

[StellarVixen]

The first demo of Aqua was at Macworld Expo 2000, and buttons were mostly as shipped. (From that keynote: "We call the new user interface Aqua, because it's liquid. One of the design goals was: you want to lick it.")

One difference is that there was a purple window widget then for a single-window mode that never made it to the final 10.0 release.

(edit) I stand slightly corrected. Here's a slide that does show multi-accent-color widgets:

I don't believe this ever shipped, though.

Oh, my... Aqua! Those buttons...like jelly beans, make you wanna eat it. 🙂

I miss Aqua.

 

[MBAir2010]

Or rubbish, or even rubbish bin. I'd also like Movies renamed to Films.

I called them FLICKS

 

[TheralSadurns]

Workflows in Touch Bar.

Oh the single buttons for Brightness +/- and Volume +/- are gone? As are the skip fwd and skip bck buttons?

 

[Mark-Technology]

Dashboard is still there.

Whyyyyy. Just let it die already, Apple!

 

[Cougarcat]

Whyyyyy. Just let it die already, Apple!

No, they need to update it, not get rid of it. The UI is so much better than the awful phone-sized widget sidebar. They need to get rid of that, and give the widgets a similar Dashboard-style UI.

 

[cambookpro]

They talk about how dark mode changes depending on your wallpaper in the Dark Mode WWDC session here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/210 (12:10).

What I found interesting is that it's a dynamic process, so if you move the window from a lighter part of the background to a darker part, it will also change.

Strangely, Graphite mode disables this. IMO, that should be a separate setting.

What I found interesting is that it's not actually translucent, but dynamically calculates the average colour of the wallpaper behind the window and adds the dark mode elements on top of that solid colour.

I thought Apple had gone a bit wayward recently with their software, but I'm really liking iOS 12 and Mojave especially. Attention to detail seems good.

 

[bmac89]

What I found interesting is that it's not actually translucent, but dynamically calculates the average colour of the wallpaper behind the window and adds the dark mode elements on top of that solid colour.

I thought Apple had gone a bit wayward recently with their software, but I'm really liking iOS 12 and Mojave especially. Attention to detail seems good.

Interesting. So I guess it always calculates based on the desktop wallpaper even if there is a window under a window?

Also I wonder how it works when in Fullscreen mode because usually the background is black instead of the desktop wallpaper.

 

[Crunch]

My Fusion Drive got updated to APFS!

Yikes hehe...I can't wait to hear how it's going for you.

Are there any stability issues or crashes to report? Any noticeable speed improvements that are attributable to APFS?

How does the OS feel overall in terms of fluidity/snappines?

Finally, does Safari feel any faster/snappier/fluid??

Thanks! 🙂

 

[cmChimera]

No, they need to update it, not get rid of it. The UI is so much better than the awful phone-sized widget sidebar. They need to get rid of that, and give the widgets a similar Dashboard-style UI.

I agree. I can fit more widgets in dashboard too.

 

[secretanchitman]

Can anyone test if they keyboard media playback controls (F7, F8, F9) work exclusively in iTunes in 10.14? In 10.12, they would only work with iTunes but in 10.13, Apple changed the key behavior so the keyboard controls work with whatever media is playing (example is YouTube video playing in Safari), not just iTunes.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/15/how-to-fix-media-controls-high-sierra/ - This link has a better description of the issue and how a developer has made a program to fix it in 10.13. I was wondering if the same behavior is in 10.14? 🙂

 

[PowerMac G4 MDD]

Or rubbish, or even rubbish bin. I'd also like Movies renamed to Films.

Back in Leopard, I changed the name of my 'Trash' to 'Cråp.' I wonder if this can still be done in recent versions of OSX.
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Dark Mode is not one set colour; it subtly changes depending on your desktop background.

Yeah, that's been the case with non-Dark Mode.

BTW, I need to remember how, but I noticed that Transparency, as long as it has existed in OSX, somewhat defies the laws of... translucency, in regards to stacked windows. I need to find a screenshot I took some months ago and prove what I mean.

EDIT: I remember... I think I had a transparency-enabled window over another window which was over some colorful image or something; and, for some reason, the front-most window was picking up more color from the furthest-back window than the window in the middle was. It made no sense. I know it doesn't matter whatsoever, but it's just funny to see transparency defy physics. I just wish I could replicate this; I forgot exactly how I did it and which windows I used.

 

[macintoshmac]

Oh the single buttons for Brightness +/- and Volume +/- are gone? As are the skip fwd and skip bck buttons?

Very much there. This button is a new option.