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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

pants2 wrote: post #27

How has Apple still not addressed many basic UI issues, such as menu bar icons disappearing behind the notch with no way to see them?

Menu extras were never intended to be treated like Windows tray items. For the earlier portion of OS X’s life, there wasn’t even a public API to create them and required a hack and a private API, and the current API is intended for ephemeral menu extras that disappear when their host app isn’t running. In short, the menubar isn’t designed for users to collect menu extras like Pokémon.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by rramon »

They went way too far with the corner radii and pill shapes imo, looks like a Fisher Price toy. Some inner buttons retained the old radii and don't match the outer window radii anymore.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by pants2 »

nozzlegear wrote: post #57
pants2 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone using Raycast has had these features forever. Nice to see some attention on Spotlight but it's still nowhere close to the functionality you get from Raycast.

I've been using Raycast for a couple months but I'm hoping I can uninstall it if Spotlight is responsive enough in Tahoe. What bothers me about Raycast is the monthly subscription for certain features. I don't mind paying for Mac software – I'm quite happy to do that – but I do mind paying monthly subscriptions for Mac software with seemingly no justification for it (i.e. what monthly resources does running a "window…

What's the window command? I'm able to use things like "Top Left Sixth" on the free plain. AFAIK you only the pro for the AI features.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by sitzkrieg »

rramon wrote: post #62

They went way too far with the corner radii and pill shapes imo, looks like a Fisher Price toy. Some inner buttons retained the old radii and don't match the outer window radii anymore.

totally agree, this is kind of an embarrassing look for supposed workstations

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

daveidol wrote: post #26
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotlight got a major upgrade. It’s notably faster and deeply integrates with Shortcuts (letting you specify input variables, for example) among other things.

I'm curious if it will get me to stop using Alfred

Alfred leverages the spotlight indexes, so Alfred will also get the speed up

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

rramon wrote: post #62

They went way too far with the corner radii and pill shapes imo, looks like a Fisher Price toy. Some inner buttons retained the old radii and don't match the outer window radii anymore.

It’s a trend that’s visible in other designs too, like Material 3 Expressive.

I’m not a fan of Windows but I believe that probably the best modern UI design system for desktops right now is probably the flavor of Fluent used in Windows 11. It still retains somewhat desktop-like information density, doesn’t go overboard on radii, and has a touch of depth. I’d like to see more design languages exploring in its general direction.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by nozzlegear »

pants2 wrote: post #63
nozzlegear wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using Raycast for a couple months but I'm hoping I can uninstall it if Spotlight is responsive enough in Tahoe. What bothers me about Raycast is the monthly subscription for certain features. I don't mind paying for Mac software – I'm quite happy to do that – but I do mind paying monthly subscriptions for Mac software with seemingly no justification for it (i.e. what monthly resources does running a "window…

What's the window command? I'm able to use things like "Top Left Sixth" on the free plain. AFAIK you only the pro for the AI features.

I thought Pro was only for AI features as well (that's what it said when I installed Raycast), but this dialog is saying Pro is required for custom window layouts as well. I only discovered this today when I was trying to create a new command to paste the screenshot from my clipboard into Preview for OCR.

https://imgur.com/a/6OeqJYQ

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

triyambakam wrote: post #3

Disappointed with the background image. I was expecting a similar treatment like with Sequoia and previous versions with a beautiful and inspiring scene in nature. Instead it is vaguely inspired by water?

The Tahoe beach pictures are pretty nice.

https://mrmacintosh.com/download-the-new-macos-tahoe-wallpap... has them at the bottom of the link

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by nicbou »

Okay that seems pretty nice. A lot of small improvements to day-to-day use. This is what I want from a desktop OS update.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by stouset »

joshstrange wrote: post #50

I'm normally on about 1 year delay on upgrading macOS for a multitude of reasons. I might not wait the full year but something else will have to force me to upgrade within the first few months. I'd heard from people who were running the betas that it's not ready and they are surprised Tahoe wasn't delayed. No way I'm upgrading any time soon to Apple's least cared for OS with a change this big (and this untested).

I'll be honest, I hear this every single time. But I've never delayed upgrading, and I've never regretted it. That's not to say every upgrade has been a strict improvement, but going back to my first Mac at 10.4 (Tiger) I've never wished I had stayed on an older version. We'll see how I feel after going to Tahoe, maybe this will be the one that breaks the trend.

Windows, on the other hand…

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