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Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by frizlab »

Etheryte wrote: post #10
frizlab wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still have no idea what this does. What on earth are the desktop rounded corners?

Modern MacBooks models have rounded corners at the top right and top left corners of the screen, see [0]. The bottom corners don't do this and external displays don't do this. This is a stylistic choice to match the curvature of the laptop's edge. If you move your mouse along that corner it doesn't disappear behind the curve, it follows the curve. [0] https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-air/x/images/overview/mac-pl...

I really think* the rounded corners on top-left and top-right of the MacBook Pros are hardware. There is no software in the world that can “fix” that…

* Try to move space on such a device, the non-rounded desktop appears…

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by cesaref »

This has reminded me that in System 7, the code for the window was a system resource (resource forks contained all sorts of code, icons, text dictionaries etc). Anyhow, if you dropped an updated window resource into your system with the correct resource id, you could change this default behaviour. A friend of mine wrote a round window for a clock app, and made a copy with resedit in the system, and a reboot later, all windows were round.

It was a very flexible and hackable system, very fragile, and no security whatsoever, but lots of fun!

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by locao »

davebranton wrote: post #19
altairprime wrote: post #2

The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…

The linked article on medium was also written by AI, which immediately disqualifies it from being interesting or useful. "And the worst part? Apple didn’t provide a switch to turn it off." Now see, this is AI. A normal human being would write, "Apple didn't even provide any way to switch off this non-feature" - for example. AI always , for reasons that are likely neither interesting nor especially illuminating, write…

I'm not saying you're wrong about this article being AI-written, but I know people who write like this, and I hate it.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by mrkpdl »

cweagans wrote: post #3

Your GitHub repo and the associated medium article do a great job of describing the problem and the solution that you settled on. I don’t understand why you didn’t include a screenshot of what this looks like though. The suitability of your tool depends on what it looks like. Please, always include screenshots in open source projects that are aesthetic in nature.

I came to say the same thing, a screenshot is all I want to see before diving deeper.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by mvdtnz »

altairprime wrote: post #2

The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…

> There’s also a consistency problem. If you use multiple monitors or virtual machines, the mismatch between macOS’s new roundness and other systems’ sharper corners creates visual friction. Once you notice it, you can’t unsee it.

I guess it's a good thing I never noticed it then? Of all the very real problems with Tahoe this one would never have even registered with me.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by carlosjobim »

frizlab wrote: post #18
duskwuff wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do those pixels even exist on the display? They certainly don't on the iPhone; the implied corners on those are physically outside the device.

Yeah I really thought (and actually still think) the rounded corners on the top left and right of the new(-ish) MacBook Pro are hardware. I know for sure they pre-date Tahoe!

They are hardware.

There's software like Top Notch if you want to make the bottom corners rounded also.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by jrmg »

altairprime wrote: post #2

The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…

And the screenshot in the blog post is of a window with rounded corners!

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by irq »

cweagans wrote: post #3

Your GitHub repo and the associated medium article do a great job of describing the problem and the solution that you settled on. I don’t understand why you didn’t include a screenshot of what this looks like though. The suitability of your tool depends on what it looks like. Please, always include screenshots in open source projects that are aesthetic in nature.

Thank you for posting this. It never ceases to amaze me how many open source GUI projects forget screenshots.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by Mogzol »

I have no idea what this is fixing.

> Note: This does not change the rounded corners of individual app windows. It only restores the straight silhouette at the edges of your display.

My display does not have rounded corners. I am on macOS Tahoe using external monitors. I know that newer macbooks have rounded display corners, but those are rounded at the hardware level afaik, those corner pixels simply don't exist. And besides that, the medium article linked in the repo specifically talks about external monitors. Does anyone have an example of what this program is actually meant to fix?

EDIT: I downloaded and compiled it myself to see. All it does is add a black border around your whole screen. Here is a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/7XWAwxz.jpeg

Again, I don't have rounded corners on my display in the first place, but if I did I suppose this would hide them. At the cost of losing the whole edge of my display, lol. I don't see why anyone would actually use this, especially since it cuts off half the menu bar.

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