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Want the bigger window corner radius back? Come inside
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Yes it works here as well but with same limitation as is on Tahoe - not all apps can have floating sidebar here by help of this trick.
This is amazing. Have set Golden Gate to 5, and it looks super good (1 was just a bit too sharp, although I've spent the last two years. looking for an new OS that has old-fashioned square windows).
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n-evo
macrumors 68020
I’d say 8. But 10 looks better on macOS Tahoe I feel.
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PotentPeas
macrumors 6502a
Have you found any apps that don't respect it which are not Chromium-based web browsers?
The setting to match the border radius of Sequoia and earlier is 10. (Noted in the original Reddit post.)
AdamBuker
macrumors regular
I thought Catalina and earlier had a tighter corner radius than
EDIT: The setting is '5' to match the radius of Catalina and earlier.
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SketchyClown
macrumors 6502
I had to try this. Setting to 5 really takes away the ugly rounded corners for a more crisp look. Windows seem to fit the screen now which is aesthetically more pleasing to my eyes. I hope this little adjustment tool doesn't disappear.
n-evo
macrumors 68020
Window corners: iA Writer. Sidebar: all apps that have a “real” floating sidebar over content like Maps and Pixelmator.
Yeah but that isn’t the same radius as macOS Catalina’s. Setting for that is about 5-8.
SketchyClown
macrumors 6502
Insanely tempting. I'm on Sonoma (Sequoia had a bunch of bugs at launch and Tahoe is... well... Tahoe) so GG is going to be quite the upgrade!
Starfia
macrumors 68000
Holy heck; it helps so much.
Goodness, am I looking forward to the end of this year of having to resort to weird hacks just to feel like I'm almost using a Mac.
MacGizmo
macrumors 68040
Any app that draws its own window chrome. So like any app from Adobe, most TOT, Catalyst apps, dozens of browsers, etc.
Starfia
macrumors 68000
Wait a sec.
This is a pretty newly-discovered "hack," isn't it? It's different than the other, single property list item from the earlier Tahoe versions that sort of blanket-toggled a legacy appearance and was then removed.
Is it… possible this development indicates the final version of Tahoe is going to expose an actual setting for a Sequoia-like corner radius and sidebar appearance for the Intel Macs that will be left with Tahoe forever?
This is a pretty newly-discovered "hack," isn't it? It's different than the other, single property list item from the earlier Tahoe versions that sort of blanket-toggled a legacy appearance and was then removed.
Is it… possible this development indicates the final version of Tahoe is going to expose an actual setting for a Sequoia-like corner radius and sidebar appearance for the Intel Macs that will be left with Tahoe forever?
PotentPeas
macrumors 6502a
This is wishful thinking. Apple doesn't have a history of making any changes in their "final versions" other than bug and security fixes.
I think that this is most likely an artifact of them working to implement a system-wide corner radius in Golden Gate, and it just "happens to be here".
retta283
macrumors 68040
I like the Catalina and earlier radius the best as well. It's subtle enough to not be distracting but doesn't have a 'sharp' look to the edges. It also doesn't cut very much off the edge of windows.
Interestingly though the radius itself was unchanged until Big Sur, the bottom of windows were always 100% sharp edged squares until 10.7 Lion, which added rounded bottom corners. I actually only noticed that this year and that's 15 years later! Shows how subtle the difference really is.
Starfia
macrumors 68000
Agreed such a change in a late major system version would be unprecedented. However, the backlash of the calibre that inspired the retrogressive "iteration" to Golden Gate's interface, let alone one the positioning of the inciting interface as an entire Mac architecture's final offering, is also unprecedented. It's not wishful because I'm merely wondering, not hoping – I won't be surprised at all if it doesn't happen – but the genuine uniqueness of this combination of factors did indeed make me wonder.
Luftkopf
macrumors 65816
I'm running GG, and I just turned on the floating sidebar. Much better now.
Did beta 4 kill the ability to bring back the floating sidebar? I've tried a couple of things but it seems like the override isn't working for me anymore.
Too bad. I know it's not popular, but I dug the look.
Too bad. I know it's not popular, but I dug the look.
I absolutely say it. macOS 27 is horrendous and stale, 26 was the first fun thing to happen to macOS in a decade. Now I´m paying €2000 for a MacBook Air and the software looks almost exactly the same as my 2005 MacBook and 2011 MacBook Pro. Seriously considering going windows for something new next time. Won´t be upgrading to macOS 27 for the visual appearance changes. Appart from a few fanboys online noone wants this downgrade.