Even without the rounded corners it was more difficult than it needed to be. The corner resize should take up way more of the sides of the window. If my mouse is 90% of the way to the corner, what are the odds that I want to resize the window only horizontally or vertically?
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
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Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
It can be some technical detail. For example: imagine you have 2 windows, the lower right corner of one window almost touching the upper right corner of the other, so that the bounding rectangles overlap but the graphics don't. With the inaccurate "false square" corners, you just had to check the bounding rectangles, to know which window to resize, now you have to check the actual graphics (or more likely, a mask). I…
Just revert the code back to pre-26! This is ridiculous, it can't possibly be this hard and if it is, it just points to the degradation in the quality of Apple software! This is maddening!
Pre-Tahoe windows didn't have these stupid round corners (which is the ACTUAL bug which should be fix).
Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Even Windows has some nice stuff when it comes to windows management IMHO. Every time I end up on macOS I miss the various Windows/GNOME behaviours e.g. window snapping to the right/left half, pressing the Win key to see all open apps, maximise buttons that doesn't put the whole app into full screen mode, etc.
I agree that macOS has become worse, however your examples don't really count: Window snapping was implemented some time ago: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/12/macos-sequoia-window-ti... Instead of win key, you can press F3, or just set a hotkey that works for you in the System Preferences Instead of clicking the red maximize button, you can double-click the window header / title. This will use an algorithm to try…
Option-click green button does window maximise (normal click does full-screen)
Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#114What the hell is going on at Apple? Where are the engineers allocated to? Who's driving the bus? Cause it sure ain't Siri either.
Hardware first, software second
Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah window management and the desktop experience in general on Mac just feels like I'm dragging my hands through tar. For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move and rename a few files between them" is a 10 second task on Windows (Win+E x2, quick clicks on the explorer links, easy to scroll around, move files, drag, rename, anything you want). On Mac I get about 7…
> After command shift 4 to take a screenshot I think it's actually physically impossible to edit it within 60 seconds. This is completely incorrect, and the solution is way more discoverable than needing to know obscure things like Win+E. Click the thumbnail that appears in the bottom right, then click the marker icon. > For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move…
> needing to know obscure things like Win+E
I haven't used Windows since the early days of 10 when I moved wholesale to Apple, but let's be really real - Apple users mocking "obscure shortcuts" in other OSes is throwing stones in a glass house:
Cmd+` to scroll through windows of the current app?
Cmd+Option+H to hide other apps?
Cmd+Shift+Ctrl+4 to clipboard copy a screenshot?
Quick, is Mission Control a three finger swipe up? Or down? Or is that Expose?
Cmd+space,Cmd+B to search web from Spotlight
Cmd+tab, release tab, press Q - quit app without switching to it
Cmd+tab, then down - Expose.
Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it was one of those things I noticed when I first started using Linux and wondered why every other OS didn't just copy it.
windows does support [win] + [arrow key] though
Mac supports the win (Cmd) + arrow key thing too; figured I'd mention since the story is about macOS window management.
Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#117What the....
This is such poor execution on Apple's part.
Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only for the currently focused window which is inexplicably weird
A lot of the cursor weirdness on macOS comes from the window server owning the cursor and only passing events to active windows.
It's kind of nice, though, because you can click anywhere on a window to focus it. If you want to interact with a background window without focusing it, hold Cmd and click.
Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#119well this certainly goes a long way to explaining why i've been fighting with window resize on tahoe :p it's stupidly difficult to grab windows by the flat edges, too
9 out of 10 times I dont even get the cursor change and I have to ‘guess’ if im in the right spot!
Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
#120Why doesnt apple just hire this guy and fix this?
Because the problem is much higher than the ability to fix the bug