macOS 27: All The Little Things

[conmee]

Design

• New Liquid Glass appearance.

Seems most are on topic. 🤷‍♂️

But moving on as it’s been discussed enough for me.

I guess it’s a fine line. Is pointing out misalignment of a UI feature a “little thing” or a bug? All the macOS little things have the “Does Finder still say Macintosh Experience” posts. That is a “little thing” or some object has been moved to a new location or a clever tool has been discovered or a command in Terminal now behaves differently. Those to me are “little things.” That’s all.

P.S. I find the UI discussion interesting and wouldn’t want it deleted. I guess I was just miffed to see “Post deleted: Off Topic” in my alerts lol

 

[fisherking]

How is any of this “minimal”? In any way, how?

Narrator: it’s not.

if i look back thru all the versions of mac os since osx 10, i see a lot of (now) gaudy-looking UI elements, overstatement. but maybe that's just me. anyway, as with tahoe, i have no issues with GG (outside of essential fixes needed, as with any beta/update), and will let it go; i got thru tahoe unscathed, and will enjoy GG even more... despite the naysayers 👍

 

[zevrix]

I honestly don’t get why things like progress bars, checkboxes confirmation buttons, etc. don’t have a Liquid Glass effect.

and hopefully never will

 

[conmee]

if i look back thru all the versions of mac os since osx 10, i see a lot of (now) gaudy-looking UI elements, overstatement. but maybe that's just me. anyway, as with tahoe, i have no issues with GG (outside of essential fixes needed, as with any beta/update), and will let it go; i got thru tahoe unscathed, and will enjoy GG even more... despite the naysayers 👍

I tend to agree there have been many divisive/polarizing changes over the years (I still like the menu pinstripes and wish Apple allowed for an "old school"/Legacy theme but I digress). I mentioned this in another GG thread, but after using Tahoe for a year, I got used to the floaty sidebars, and now GG looks like it's missing something to my eye now. And I was absolutely not a fan of the floaty sidebars when I first saw them... maybe need to start a "Bring Back Floaty Sidebars" thread lol totally joking btw. But overall looking forward to the fine tuning GG is bringing.

P.S. Forgot to say that the change to Preferences/Settings was indeed more than just a gaudy looking overstatement. For many folks like @CDPlayer and myself included that was a major not minimal change.

 

[MakaniKai]

That’s really interesting! Maybe a sign that they are rethinking the whole Full Screen logic and Fill is becoming the new intended “Full Screen”? (In that case why doesn’t Apple just hide the window borders when a window “Fill”s…… I feel this would be a more elegant way to resolve the whole corner situation)

Yeah maybe. Personally I am helping my mom switch to macOS and explaining the difference between "fill" and "fullscreen" and "stage manager" and "tiled windows" and "tiled fullscreen" is just... a nightmare.

 

[baryon]

Yeah maybe. Personally I am helping my mom switch to macOS and explaining the difference between "fill" and "fullscreen" and "stage manager" and "tiled windows" and "tiled fullscreen" is just... a nightmare.

What I hate the most about macOS window management: If I'm in full screen, why can't I show the desktop? Gotta grab a file on the Desktop and drag it into DaVinci Resolve in full screen? Switch to the nearest non-full screen space (maybe 3 spaces over if many of your apps are already full screen), then show desktop, then grab the file, then swipe back to Resolve, drop the file. Let's say you have to do this 10 times a day. It's ridiculous.

 

[n-evo]

and hopefully never will

To each their own. For me anything than those drab flat elements we’ve been looking at since OS X Yosemite would be an improvement.