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Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by godelski »

PaulHoule wrote: post #100
veber-alex wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such an insane bug to still have around all these years. Are apple engineers not using macOS?

I think Apple's self-image of being the epitome of design actually acts against them. Leads to monstrosities like Liquid Glass kinda vandalizing random parts of the UI in small ways that I intuitively read as "they are anti-anti-aliasing" not "they added cool refraction effects." It used to be you'd see something in a well-chosen color, now it is just a muddy kind of greyish brownish whatever. I'd like to see them ma…

  > I think Apple's self-image of being the epitome of design actually acts against them. Leads to monstrosities like Liquid Glass kinda vandalizing random parts of the UI
I'm pretty confident many Apple employees have eyes, and thus are aware of how absurd Liquid Glass is (wtf, my iPhone capitalizes that but not a standalone i?!?!)

So assuming everyone at Apple isn't deaf (it's all over public discourse), blind (it looks bad), and dumb (no genius needed), then how does it get through? I can only see a few scenarios, none of which are good.

Maybe Apple engineers are afraid to push back on management?

Maybe management isn't receptive to their employees who voiced concerns?

Maybe key decision makers have pushed themselves into an echo chamber where it's difficult to hear concerns.

One of these has to be true, or some combination. But none of these are good, they are incredibly destructive to companies. Though also unfortunately common across monopolies. Iron Law of Bureaucracy hard at work...

I often think of that scene in Pantheon where they basically say they don't know what to do after Steve died. You can only laptops so small... and they're so small that anyone that puts on lotion is going to have an imprint of their keyboard on their screens... Steve wouldn't have accepted that

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by randomeel »

4jck wrote: post #180

does Aerospace still require disabling SIP? kind of needed as my mac is a work laptop. I would appreciate if anyone has i3/sway keybindings that work alongside this, otherwise I might just vibecode something in Swift. I know that there is some window management keybinds within System Settings, maybe I need to look into that also, but I don't think they'll behave the way I want them to

No it does not require disbaling SIP and it is inspired by i3 though I have never used i3 and it has customizable keybindings , you can also use karabiner to bind keys for it.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by sparqlittlestar »

aequitas wrote: post #29

Wonderful, that leaves 2 things on the top of my list for spaces: having to hover your mouse over the top left corner of a space and waiting until it shows the closing icon. And Safari deciding its better to switch to a space and open a window that was minimised there instead of just opening a new window in the space i'm currently in (even with the "switch to a space" setting turned off!) when 1 want to open a new ta…

Press Option to immediately show the close button

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by niij »

fizwidget wrote: post #106
ryanmcbride wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, their damn phone keyboards are so bad I'm 100% confident that Tim only does voice to text on his phone. There's no way that the CEO of a company could use a keyboard that horrible and not want to fix it.

In my experience iOS 26.4 did largely fix it btw. Update if you haven’t already.

But then you'd have to upgrade past 18, meaning the liquid glass abomination.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by chii »

godelski wrote: post #146

I think Apple is making a really fatal flaw. Tbh Microsoft is doing it too. Design good interfaces, with sane defaults but do not handcuff power users!!! I often hear people say no one should care because there aren't many power users. They're a small portion, but that's absurd framing. They matter a lot because they're the ones that push your design language, develop new ideas, influence the general community, build…

> They matter a lot because they're the ones that push your design language, develop new ideas, influence the general community, build new programs, find your bugs, and all of that

they used to care, but they don't now, because these corps have sufficient monopolistic control to not require "outsiders" to push their design language, develop new ideas, influence or programs.

In fact, it seems to me that these big corps want power users out, as they disrupt the agenda, find workarounds for "features" being pushed out that should have been mandatory for pleb users!

> [Linux is] still not right for the average joe but it's on its way and a few more specialty distros are already there (e.g. steamos).

i hope that is the future, because it's the only road to freedom for general computation. Unfortunately, the hard part is not the end user's acceptance of it, but the hardware manufacturers, who are being gripped by the balls one way or another. Unless they're willing to sacrifice any microsoft certification etc, they will be somehow beholden to them (may be not now, but certainly in the future when linux truly threatens window's dominance).

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by vvillena »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #101
veber-alex wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such an insane bug to still have around all these years. Are apple engineers not using macOS?

I mean, their damn phone keyboards are so bad I'm 100% confident that Tim only does voice to text on his phone. There's no way that the CEO of a company could use a keyboard that horrible and not want to fix it.

The behavior of the iOS keyboard also showcases how there must not be many decision-making people who communicate in multiple languages.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by Cockbrand »

IOT_Apprentice wrote: post #77

BetterTouchTool is $25 for a lifetime license with upgrades.

And it's for me an absolutely indispensable app which I'd happily pay more for. The UI is a bit weird, but it's fantastic how many little tweaks it enables. A Mac without it feels clunky to me.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by sgloutnikov »

bigfudge wrote: post #105
phren0logy wrote: post #10

Having been ruined by Linux options like Hyperland and Niri, I’m digging my early foray into OmniWM - https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM

As someone who never uses spaces or any window manager, what am I actually missing? What’s wrong with cmd tab and just switching between apps? Is this going to be some Kind of major epiphany?!

Just simpler to navigate and less cognitive load, pressing a key and going where you want to go. Here's a video from ThePrimeagen with some examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdumjiHabhQ

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