I don't mind the icons, but the snow effect on the website makes it much harder to read.
It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
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Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, Liquid (Gl)ass is hideous. I'll stick to macOS Sequoia for the time being.
MacOS 26 highlights were... and this was _Apple's_ opening modal... "Icons that look like shit!" and "Notification summaries that may not be correct!" In general I feel as if Apple's software feels buggier and less solid lately across my iPhone and my computers. Won't be upgrading the personal computer for as long as possible
Apple has been crashing with increasing frequency for me. Luckily all minor but I’m waiting for the big crapout.
Also what happened to their filters? I get daily spam from Apple email addresses now.
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#353I used to be a die hard UI perfectionist. I thought there were perfect UIs, and that you could go more or less away from or toward perfection with choices. But lately, over the past 5 or 10 years, it seems to me that perfection in UI is just as arbitrary and mutable as people's tastes and preferences. It's hard to admit it to myself, but I think my love for the early Mac OS and Windows 9x UIs was mere puppy love at f…
> But lately, over the past 5 or 10 years, it seems to me that perfection in UI is just as arbitrary and mutable as people's tastes and preferences. No. Perfection exists, but it's not how something works or looks. Perfection is stability. A bad solution that you know inside and out is preferable to a "better" solution that you have to spend time to think about every time you use it.
No, it's not. Otherwise any old solution that does not change would be good.
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#354I’ve always respected macOS for being the 'stable' choice for not-as-techy people. But recent versions feel like a mess. Running Tahoe on my 2019 Mac Pro (Yes the cheese grater one) has been surprisingly frustrating. Simple things are broken: Ableton couldn't even trigger a microphone permission prompt, forcing me to meddle with a SQLite database, which is definitely not meant for end users to touch, just to get it w…
Your Ableton and Logitech issues seem to be the same: screwed up access permissions. Not your fault, macOS has been sucking at it for a while. It’s not unheard of for System Settings to show you some app has some permissions, but in practice it doesn’t. What usually works is fully resetting permissions for an app: tccutil reset All To find the bundle ID for an app: mdls -raw -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier
I did try that amongst other things. Launching Ableton via Terminal also brought up the microphone permission pop-up...for the Terminal app. One has to wonder if a System that regularly "forgets" permissions is even secure at all.
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#355What is with the annoying snow going over the text? That is a pretty “arbitrary” graphic element
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#356The icons are another symptom.
A brand new Apple iPhone 17 Pro.
Constantly lagging and locking up in preparation for another transparent animation that absolutely no one asked for.
Feeling like Apple just mugged me and stole $1,000.
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#357very nice article of how apple get confuse of a good ui.
is it part of global Enshittification or did big tech forgot all past good rules ?
i guess , steve jobs would have made an heart attack reading your article :)
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#358I’ve always respected macOS for being the 'stable' choice for not-as-techy people. But recent versions feel like a mess. Running Tahoe on my 2019 Mac Pro (Yes the cheese grater one) has been surprisingly frustrating. Simple things are broken: Ableton couldn't even trigger a microphone permission prompt, forcing me to meddle with a SQLite database, which is definitely not meant for end users to touch, just to get it w…
That’s on point - it really reminds me of a Linux distro that someone went a bit too overboard on customizing. The inconsistencies are so familiar from cobbling different OS and window themes and icon sets etc together. One more reason to move away from MacOS since they don’t have that anymore either
The bug with the outlined windows really threw me back a decade. It's exactly how a bad KDE MacOS rice looked back then lol
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
The audacity to critique Apple's use of icons (which is objectively justified critique, IMO) while having animated snowflakes falling over the text and images on the site is something on an entirely different level. Thank goodness for Firefox reader mode. That animation is so incredibly distracting.
Yeah. I immediately went to the snowflake icon at the top of the page thinking it would turn the animation off. Instead, it changed the background color :-( I can't stand animations while I'm trying to read something, and this one is particularly egregious.
> I can't stand animations while I'm trying to read something, and this one is particularly egregious.
Let me introduce you to "neko"...
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#360Tahoe feels like at some level a manager had said "the rule is every menu item needs an icon" and just left individual engineers to figure out what to use.
A lot of these actually feel like unifying on a swift UI component library that has a "menu item" component which has a non-nullable icon as a parameter.