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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 duskwuff »

brycewray wrote: post #9
sho_hn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?

> I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens? Running an Apple Studio Display here, and no rounded corners at any edges. So, just for non-Apple monitors?

Not the case with a third-party display either.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by ksidisnidjsdj »

brycewray wrote: post #9
sho_hn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?

> I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens? Running an Apple Studio Display here, and no rounded corners at any edges. So, just for non-Apple monitors?

Not even that. I have both Apple and non-Apple monitors, and my Mac only rounds the top edges on the MacBook’s screen, as intended.

Not sure what this tool’s function is supposed to be, given that the rounded corners only appear on screens that are actually rounded. Why would you want to straighten that out on a physically-rounded screen?

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by carlosjobim »

sho_hn wrote: post #8
jaffa2 wrote: post #7

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Macs have rounded corners on the desktop. I.e 4 corners. It looked awesome in the CRT days because of the shape of them. These days on flat lcd screens the geometry is so good that they aren’t required to provide the same function as in CRT days but some people still like the look. I do, but i dont run extra software if i can help it especially for an aesthetic change. I used a tool like this is the past but there we…

I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?

The newest design of MacBooks with the notch have the top corners of the display rounded.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by duskwuff »

carlosjobim wrote: post #13
sho_hn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?

The newest design of MacBooks with the notch have the top corners of the display rounded.

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.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by ksidisnidjsdj »

carlosjobim wrote: post #13
sho_hn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?

The newest design of MacBooks with the notch have the top corners of the display rounded.

Yes, but that’s not in-software, the screen is actually, physically rounded. Using software to straighten that out would have, quite literally, no effect at all on these machines.

But most importantly, when connected to sharp-edged monitors, the Mac does not round the corners and instead displays the entire contents of the screen edge-to-edge (including the desktop and menu bar). So this tool seems to be solving a problem that does not exist.

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by frizlab »

duskwuff wrote: post #15
carlosjobim wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The newest design of MacBooks with the notch have the top corners of the display rounded.

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!

Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

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Post by davebranton »

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, writes like this. Unnecessary and stupid stylistic choices everywhere.

Look, if you cannot be bothered to write something, why on God's Good Earth would anyone bother to read it?

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