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Re: OS X Yosemite: I went back to Mavericks

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Post by mcphage » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 7:46 PM UTC

hubridnoxx wrote: post #3

It just doesn't look complete. Could be cool (and useful for Apple) if they released a "Material Design"-like resource.

That's what the Human Interface Guidelines is for: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserEx...

Or is there something you mean that the HIG doesn't include?

Re: OS X Yosemite: I went back to Mavericks

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Post by owenwil » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 9:07 PM UTC

It sounds like the author simply doesn't like change and is looking for things to pick apart. Yosemite is faster on every machine I've installed it on and I think the new interface is a new, modern, fresh take on OS X. If it's slow or dropping frames, perhaps it would be best to investigate and diagnose if your machine is OK or not before complaining. Of course, interface preference is subjective but I suspect most people simply don't care that much.

Change is hard, but if you go into it with this attitude you won't ever want to upgrade or try anything new.

Re: OS X Yosemite: I went back to Mavericks

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Post by hit8run » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 9:15 PM UTC

Interesting to hear your opinions about Yosemite. Yesterday I had a conversation with an apple employee and he also confirmed that they are aware of the UI performance problems. I expect apple to fix this soon.

Re: OS X Yosemite: I went back to Mavericks

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Post by cpleppert » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 1:41 AM UTC

owenwil wrote: post #12

It sounds like the author simply doesn't like change and is looking for things to pick apart. Yosemite is faster on every machine I've installed it on and I think the new interface is a new, modern, fresh take on OS X. If it's slow or dropping frames, perhaps it would be best to investigate and diagnose if your machine is OK or not before complaining. Of course, interface preference is subjective but I suspect most p…

Seems really hard to just reject all the new features because you don't like the window chrome.

Unlike the author, I have no issues running Yosemite on an i7 macbook pro retina with a 27' inch thunderbolt external display.

Re: OS X Yosemite: I went back to Mavericks

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Post by forivall » Mon, Nov 03, 2014, 10:27 PM UTC

DWD's Design inspired by Yosemite? Please. They're trying to add a way to implement similar features that Gnome 3's header bars offer in their paradigm for rendering window decorations. (https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/#header-bars). The flat design sense also seems to be partially inspired by android holo, the current KDE "oxygen" design, some of gnome 3's design, and in general, flat design is more popular these days.