I was around when the entire Interwebs correctly decided that incremental updates were the way to go. Looks like Apple did not get the memo.NO ONE wants this. This is 100% UNNECESSARY. Confusing, polarizing. In plain English, it is stupid.
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macOS 26: All The Little Things
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Preview: when clicking on "Inspector", instead of a small floating window now there is a sidebar.
In addendum, I still think those scrollbars are ugly and do not fit this aesthetic.
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TextEdit: new font picker in plaintext mode.
(Also a bug is obvious - when font picker is in focus, TextEdit should be out of focus, but there is 0 indication that it is. Even window buttons are still colored.)
Edit: the new font picker appears to be system wide, I encountered it in Terminal as well.
(Also a bug is obvious - when font picker is in focus, TextEdit should be out of focus, but there is 0 indication that it is. Even window buttons are still colored.)
Edit: the new font picker appears to be system wide, I encountered it in Terminal as well.
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Jesus christ, this looks god awful. Don't they want CONTENT to shine and UI to get out of the way? lol this is the opposite of that. A bunch of ugly floating icons with shadows covering up the content and wasted space everywhere and ugly scrollbars. Yikes.
You are correct. This is a train wreck of epic proportions. Damn near unusable.
Surprising those scroll bars are persistent in that case. Probably a bug or something borked in System Settings.
You can turn them off to only appear while you're scrolling. They look a bit better that way, but still...
Oof, this feels so clunky. The oversized corner radius looks bad, especially when you place a scrollbar up to it. I've always associated Apple with slick, precise detail, but Tahoe's sloppiness is effectively removing that impression. 🫤
This pains me... 😄
The Applications tab in Spotlight (a.k.a the 'Apps' app) has been modified so that the categories scroll along the top alongside suggestions.
Below that the apps appear to be listed in alphabetical order.
Below that the apps appear to be listed in alphabetical order.
Gotta mention, I love the new Calculator look. I just wish dark buttons had as much click feedback as orange buttons
I hate it with passion. I already felt the bigger corner radius of macOS Big Sur was bad enough compared to Catalina and before. But it’s nothing compared to what Tahoe introduces.
To me it looks uncomfortable at that size - I'm sure it probably works ok in some places, but in the main (especially for non-touchscreen macOS) I think it's too much. The window loses its neatness. I'm running Sequoia which I don't really have any issues with, but will wait and see what the public release of Tahoe ends up like. At the moment I still need a fair bit of convincing for me to want to update.
There are just so many places where the increased corner radius looks bad when other window elements are in close proximity. It also needlessly takes away space from content. It needs a lot of work before GM. Maybe something gets introduced so it actually makes sense on macOS.
The more you look at little details of this most basic app, the funnier it gets. Feels like Apple only redesigned button element, select-element just got low contrast colors, and of course this text alignement is epic. So consistent.
I also don't understand why they made these floating panels with corners if they're trying to make the corner invisible in the Settings app. Maybe they still can't figure out how to remove this background filling rect on the left side?
IMO the focus of the "Liquid Glass" aspect of the interface is all wrong. Apple should have given the smaller interface elements a glassy look such as traffic light buttons, progress bars, scroll bars, checkboxen, etc. similar how things were when we still had Aqua. That worked brilliantly. Now the focus lies on the larger interface elements actually holding content such as toolbars, windows, floating elements etc. while keeping the smaller elements largely flat. I mean they could have gone all out with the liquid glass effect when they limit it to the smaller elements without creating too many issues. Now it's just overkill instead of nuanced and they end up toning everything down to the point there's not much left of "Liquid Glass".
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I think what everyone is saying is that the whole "glass" thing is completely 100% unnecessary, poorly conceived and implemented. A waste of time and effort. And horrendous from a UX/UI point of view. Did I get that right?
nope. not everyone is saying that