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Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by ahartmetz »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #531
prmoustache wrote: post #527

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I honestly don't know if there is a standardized way to pass the information or if it depends on the brand. I remember in the earlier version of gnome I had on my lenovo yoga the visual keyboard would popup on most text box but not on firefox which obliged me tolo use Gnome Web / epiphany when in tablet mode but they sorted it out later. I think there wasn't a tablet mode per se but I had used gnome tweak or an exten…

Is firefox actually fully integrated with gnome/gtk, or does it rely on some form of adaptor? I've recently installed kde on one of my laptops (I usually use i3) and firefox is pretty wonky there. For example, with the OOB configuration, if I double click the top border of a window, it will maximize vertically. Firefox seems to ignore that. It does fully maximize if I double click the title bar, though.

Right and middle clicking the maximize button maximize horizontally and vertically with KWin and that does work with Firefox. Hard to say which part is to blame with i3 + Firefox. But it's not that Firefix needs Gnome.

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Post by johnwalkr »

malfist wrote: post #421
johnwalkr wrote: post #241

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>Screens are getting bigger and bigger, yet they make things smaller and harder to click on. And despite things being smaller, there's also white space everywhere so there is less information on your screen. The trend in UIs is making filenames into discrete icons instead of lists. In outlook this morning all I got 3 attachments and it's 3 icons that all are something almost identical like " 2026-02-13_A....docx" and…

I launched spotify on my phone today and it had a grid of playlists I could chose from. The grid showed a maximum of 6 characters per playlist over two lines, but there was certainly a lot of whitespace available, and some random album art that told me nothing. It was basically unusable, but I'm sure some designer thought it was slick. Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ii0xb6fcnexdfpdudayj1/2026-02...

I had a new one yesterday. In Apple Music (iPhone), you can long hold on a song or album and press "add to playlist" and then select the playlist. The next action you probably want to do is long hold on another album and tap "add to playlist". You have to wait 2 seconds to do this because a pop-up that says "x added to playlist" appears in the exact location you need to click on. It not only obscures the area, it prevents a tap from registering.

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by j13n »

sgt wrote: post #202
j13n wrote: post #192

You think this is bad? Try using Apple Music with a traditional mouse. You can’t even right click on half of the interface, dragging elements near to scrollable edges doesn’t trigger any scroll, and UI elements like the star on favourited songs just don’t show up. It’s marginally better on a trackpad.

Tried that now. I have a USB mouse. Can't say I noticed any issues? Scrolling works fine, star works fine... resizing is fine. Using Music.app on 26.0.1

Try dragging a playlist around in the left-hand sidebar such that scrolling is required. Or scrolling with horizontally where holding down shift is usually required.

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by NoSalt »

bsimpson wrote: post #391
NoSalt wrote: post #370

Let's just go back to Macintosh OS 9 ... I LOVED OS 9!

How was that distinct from 8? I thought 9 was just 8 running in a VM on X.

I have no idea ... it's just that 9 is the last, non OS X, Apple OS I used. It very well could look just like 8, which I also love.

Actually, given the state of UI these days, I would go so far as saying that I love Apple Macintosh OS 1.x through 9.x. I miss the heady days of "old school" computing and the wild west of the nascent internet.

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

amelius wrote: post #362
virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #361

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Opinionation (heh, opinionatedness?)'s value is entirely different depending on the user category. Hackers by and large don't want opinionated, because they're willing to spend the time configuring & customizing AND have the knowledge to do so. Just about everyone else (as far as I can tell) very specifically do not want this, and for those who do, the amount of customizeability e.g. MacOS offers is enough. Having an…

I think the problem is that opinionatedness assumes that the average user exists and represents the majority of your users. But every user is in many ways non-average. Thus if you create a system tailored at the average user, then none of your users will be happy.

> But every user is in many ways non-average.

This is objectively true. There's an excellent 99PI about exactly this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/

> Thus if you create a system tailored at the average user, then none of your users will be happy.

This is objectively false. Some users will find some frustration or unhappiness with certain things, but remarkably, there are plenty of software UIs that get the job done for just about everyone.

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Post by user2722 »

tremon wrote: post #475
user2722 wrote: post #247

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It definitely needs improvement but for touchscreens it is good.

Luckily, 95% of Linux devices actually have touchscreens. The sad bit is where you realize that GNOME is typically only found on the other 5%.

I always buy 2-in-1. I run both Gnome and Android [Waydroid] when in tablet mode.
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