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Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by mortenjorck »

wwalexander wrote: post #2

I never thought I’d see the day macOS would get tiling window management. Wonder how it will interact with Stage Manager if at all.

I'm honestly surprised and disappointed that all they appear to have done is Sherlock Rectangle.

Stage Manager was the most interesting and useful thing to happen to window management in over a decade, and I was really hoping we'd see Apple do more with it. Its dynamic nature (windows don't always live in just a single context!) solved a lot of problems inherent in Spaces, and yet there's still plenty of room to build on its foundation.

I was hoping we'd at least see the window snapping behavior ported over from iPadOS. It's a really well-thought-out way to simplify window resizing and overlapping, and it would go a long way on MacOS (perhaps with a toggle in Control Center for those edge cases where you actually want pixel precision). Maybe in MacOS 16...

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by runjake »

nofunsir wrote: post #81

Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe". EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted…

If anyone is wondering why uBlock Origin is no longer available for Safari, since version 13, see:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1123#is...

And for watching Safari status ongoing:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by amarshall »

nostrademons wrote: post #57

I wonder how the "seamlessly drag and drop files, photos, and videos between your iPhone and Mac" will work. Right now, if you just want to grab the raw files of your photos and videos and not deal with the Photos app, your best bet is Image Capture, a 20+ year old seemingly unmaintained program that seems to glitch out disturbingly frequently. I really hope they can introduce something that seamlessly lets you drag…

Drag and dropping photos and other files from iPhone (plugged via USB) works well on Linux in the file browser. Too bad it seems Apple can’t figure it out on their own OS, though maybe they have now.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by lucianbr »

magnio wrote: post #60
nostrademons wrote: post #57

I wonder how the "seamlessly drag and drop files, photos, and videos between your iPhone and Mac" will work. Right now, if you just want to grab the raw files of your photos and videos and not deal with the Photos app, your best bet is Image Capture, a 20+ year old seemingly unmaintained program that seems to glitch out disturbingly frequently. I really hope they can introduce something that seamlessly lets you drag…

I thought that's what AirDrop is for? Even Android can drag and drop files to Windows.

What do you mean from Android to Windows? How exactly can that happen? I have an android phone in my hand now and a windows desktop in front, and no clue how to even begin this drag and drop operation. Where would I even start dragging in Android?

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by jcynix »

marricks wrote: post #69
dsego wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I frequently just airdrop stuff between my iphone and mac, that's the best thing coming from android, that and pasting text between devices, eg iban, passwords, etc.

Right? Airdrop "just works" and so does copy paste between devices. If this is a better AirDrop I'm all here for it. AirDrop was already leaps and bounds better than email my android phone to my PC.

You can rsync over ssh from and to Android devices, if you install Termux (Linux in an app).

And SolidExplorer is a good app to transfer data from/to Android.

I'm a long time Mac user, but I really dislike Apple's walled garden on the iPhone and thus switched to Android some years ago.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by ryandrake »

bsimpson wrote: post #98

My corp desktop is an iMac Pro (2018). For a long time, it was the best way to get a Retina-quality desktop without getting into VFX budgets. It was also in that weird period in Apple's product calendar when the one-and-done trash can was obsolete, but its replacement hadn't been released. Work usually issues whatever panels they can buy in bulk from overseas, but for a magical window, we could get a nice screen with…

I've got so much perfectly-working e-waste from Apple. It's so sad. I'm on a Late 2014 Mac mini that's stuck on Monterey macOS 12 and a Late 2014 retina iMac that's stuck on Big Sur macOS 11(!!) An iPhone7 that's stuck on iOS15. The display on that iMac is still IMO second to none. These computers do everything I need, yet their software support is stuck back in time. And 3rd party developers are terrible about supporting previous version of macOS. They alway seem to assume you are running the latest and greatest, and deliberately remove support for earlier OSs.

Hell, I have an O.G. iPad 1 that still works perfectly as it did the day I bought it, but most of the built-in software no longer works, and the App Store is basically empty. What a sad state of affairs.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by cjk2 »

Yaggo wrote: post #96

Still no re-nameable virtual desktops? Bummer.

Err we already have that in Sonoma. Press F3 and move the mouse to the top of the screen.

You can even switch between them with a triple swipe on a magic trackpad...

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by carlosjobim »

nofunsir wrote: post #81

Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe". EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted…

NextDNS solves ads. Anything super special you can use the Stopthemadness plugin.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by mostlysimilar »

doublepg23 wrote: post #87
zeusly wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope it supports thirds and not just 50/50 layouts.

I think that’ll require the crackpot team that made Calculator on iPad possible.

To be fair the new calculator app with its magic math writing is pretty dang cool.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by nofunsir »

runjake wrote: post #102
nofunsir wrote: post #81

Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe". EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted…

If anyone is wondering why uBlock Origin is no longer available for Safari, since version 13, see: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1123#is... And for watching Safari status ongoing: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52

Yes. But,

"... if ever there is a port to Safari, that will be MV3 uBO Lite, not uBO, which requires MV2." --gorhill

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