macOS Golden Gate 27.0 Beta 6 - What’s New

[Aggedor]

Wow, the traffic lights are absolutely hideous.

However, happy to report that the window corner radius terminal hack remains in place after the install.

 

[mr_bam]

Gosh dang it. GRID Legends is still broken :-(

Working for me on my M3 Air with 27b6 just installed. It's not my primary device for GRID Legends but it's working fine on the MBA and looks to have better FPS than ever.

 

[n-evo]

Those effing things are microscopically teeny tiny. An abhorrent abuse of correct UI/UX. Apple has clearly lost their way completely. Eff these things, no matter what color or glass they are.

As far as I can tell they’re pretty much the same size as they’ve always been. Since 2001. How has Apple suddenly lost their way? If anything they’re pretty consistent in this regard.

 

[jwm]

why?
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What a waste of resources!

 

[tomtad]

As far as I can tell they’re pretty much the same size as they’ve always been. Since 2001. How has Apple suddenly lost their way? If anything they’re pretty consistent in this regard.

They shrunk around the time of Lion I think and have stayed the same size ever since, can’t say I have any issue with their size.

What does need looking at is the green ‘full screen’ button where there should be a setting to change the default behaviour to ‘fill’. I’d argue this should also be the default behaviour.

Anyone new to Mac presses this button expecting to maximise the window and gets thrown into a new space with no obvious way out. Not great UX.

 

[srbNYC]

Am I missing something, or is there no way to set or edit a quick key to open Siri in listen mode?

I've been searching for this since Golden Gate started!

 

[srbNYC]

I'm not criticizing anyone who complains about the traffic lights.

OK, I will save you the trouble. OMFG, people.

 

[crobcary]

Eww traffic lights are now Liquid Glass, they look horrible. 🙁

Man, you must have really hated the first two-thirds of OS X's tenure, because it's basically Aqua.

 

[pdfu]

In a previous post, I wrote about how macOS 27 allows agents from third-party apps to integrate with Siri AI, similar to the ChatGPT extension. Turns out, macOS 27 also allows third-party apps to replace Siri's model.

You can swap Siri's model in macOS 27. Here's Siri AI running on GPT-5.6.

In a previous post, I wrote about how macOS 27 allows agents from third-party apps to integrate with Siri AI, similar to the ChatGPT extension. Turns out, macOS 27 also allows third-party apps to replace Siri's model. In the video, Siri runs through OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra model. With the new...

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[n-evo]

They shrunk around the time of Lion I think and have stayed the same size ever since, can’t say I have any issue with their size.

What does need looking at is the green ‘full screen’ button where there should be a setting to change the default behaviour to ‘fill’. I’d argue this should also be the default behaviour.

Anyone new to Mac presses this button expecting to maximise the window and gets thrown into a new space with no obvious way out. Not great UX.

You’re right they did become a bit smaller with OS X Lion, but then they got bigger again with OS X Yosemite I think (original size roughly) and even bigger with macOS Tahoe (as long as you have an updated app).

And agreed I really wish you could set the default behavior of the green button to fill. Just make it a setting what you want it to do standard: full screen, zoom or fill.

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

Working for me on my M3 Air with 27b6 just installed. It's not my primary device for GRID Legends but it's working fine on the MBA and looks to have better FPS than ever.

For me, all day-time shadows are missing

 

[adrianlondon]

Am I missing something, or is there no way to set or edit a quick key to open Siri in listen mode?

Long-press F5 (the key with the microphone thingy on it)

 

[Cape Dave]

As far as I can tell they’re pretty much the same size as they’ve always been. Since 2001. How has Apple suddenly lost their way? If anything they’re pretty consistent in this regard.

They lost their way ten minutes after these hellish dots were first foisted upon an unsuspecting public. Why round? "Oh, because it makes it thirty five times harder to focus the cursor on it." So, unless tahoe FIXED them, they are likely worse. More likely, tahoe reenshitified them.

 

[StellarVixen]

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this is how my traffic lights look everywhere lmao

great work team

Are you using “Graphite” accent color?

 

[noblesoul117]

What does need looking at is the green ‘full screen’ button where there should be a setting to change the default behaviour to ‘fill’. I’d argue this should also be the default behaviour.

Anyone new to Mac presses this button expecting to maximise the window and gets thrown into a new space with no obvious way out. Not great UX.

It doesn't change the fact that there's no option to change the green button, but if you double tap the toolbar of a window, it does fill to the content of the window (like the width of a webpage in Safari) or sometimes will fill the whole screen without going into full-screen mode.

Also IIRC, the green button used to make the window 'fill' instead of go full-screen, but they changed it at some point. I'm not sure when? But if you click the green button in 10.4 Tiger for example, it fills the window. Full-screen doesn't even exist in Tiger. They probably changed the button when they added full-screen mode.

 

[slomtbr]

What does need looking at is the green ‘full screen’ button where there should be a setting to change the default behaviour to ‘fill’. I’d argue this should also be the default behaviour.

I agree.
Why provide a drop-down menu with the "option" for Entire Screen, and not include Fill?

 

[trixit]

Theres no way that's actually real.

Yes, it's real. I can replicated it easily as well.

 

[inventor7777]

I honestly don't care for it, but I have always liked my traffic lights minimal 🤣

I use the Graphite mode in Sequoia, so mine looks like this:

 

[adrianlondon]

I agree.
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What app is that? You're definitely on DB6?

 

[slomtbr]

What app is that? You're definitely on DB6?

It's Safari, but I see the same in the Finder

 

[gforce216]

SiriAI busted for anyone else on this build? It can tell me the time but any searching or world knowledge gives me an error message.

 

[pdfu]

I agree.
Why provide a drop-down menu with the "option" for Entire Screen, and not include Fill?View attachment 2653718

Not sure why, but you're missing two Full Screen options, hence the menu.

 

[pdfu]

SiriAI busted for anyone else on this build? It can tell me the time but any searching or world knowledge gives me an error message.

Sounds like your local Siri Skimmer planner is working (it has a tool for time), but it fails when it needs to reach the Private Cloud Compute server planner.

 

[adrianlondon]

It's Safari, but I see the same in the Finder

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Interesting.

This is what it looks like when I hover over the green button in Safari:

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

It doesn't change the fact that there's no option to change the green button, but if you double tap the toolbar of a window, it does fill to the content of the window (like the width of a webpage in Safari) or sometimes will fill the whole screen without going into full-screen mode.

Also IIRC, the green button used to make the window 'fill' instead of go full-screen, but they changed it at some point. I'm not sure when? But if you click the green button in 10.4 Tiger for example, it fills the window. Full-screen doesn't even exist in Tiger. They probably changed the button when they added full-screen mode.

Option-click the green button to get the old behavior back