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Re: Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load

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Post by jmull » Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 1:25 PM UTC

jmull wrote: post #139

gcanyon wrote: post #138

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That's fascinating. I wonder what's different between your situation and mine. You're on an M-series Mac? Current MacOS?

Yes, it’s an M1 (the lower-end Studio one), and Monterey.

oops, I mean Sonoma -- whatever the very latest is. Sorry, I can't keep these names straight. I was installing betas on this machine, so I had the final release somewhat earlier than the official release since the beta RC2 and final release were the same.

Re: Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load

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Post by TheNewsIsHere » Sun, Oct 01, 2023, 12:33 PM UTC

yumraj wrote: post #125

droopyEyelids wrote: post #88

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For the gmail issue, I feel like I might as well plug http://mimestream.com , a gmail client that is a pleasure to use & efficient.

Might have considered it, but saw the subscription-only pricing and left. General unsolicited advice to desktop application vendors: unless you have the market size and monopoly of Adobe, Microsoft etc, go with one off pricing.

I tend to apply this thinking to my software purchases as well, but in the spirit of conversation I’ll offer that I also make exceptions for software I find to be 1) fantastically good _and independent_, or 2) only make sense with an Internet connection and/or requires or includes some kind of vendor-specific remote service.

Re: Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load

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Post by lelandfe » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 6:12 PM UTC

dkonofalski wrote: post #137

lelandfe wrote: post #133

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Yeah, instead of having keyboard users do the normal thing to check their WiFi, interacting with the menubar, they should instead, every time, 1. Open System Settings; 2. Type Cmd-F; 3. type "wifi"; 4. press Tab 2 times

You mean like every other OS? On Windows, you have to press the Win button, go to Settings, tab over to Network, tab over to Wifi. If you were such a keyboard expert, you'd know that you can 1. Press Cmd+Space 2. Type 'wifi' 3. Do whatever you need to do.

Other operating systems having a bad accessibility story is pretty poor justification for Apple backsliding on theirs.

Re: Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load

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Post by vor_ » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:31 PM UTC

DRAGONERO wrote: post #2

That's probably a good amount of battery life that can be claimed back once this is fixed

CPU usage isn't equivalent to power usage, so this should have no practical effect on battery life.

Re: Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load

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Post by dkonofalski » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

lelandfe wrote: post #143

dkonofalski wrote: post #137

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You mean like every other OS? On Windows, you have to press the Win button, go to Settings, tab over to Network, tab over to Wifi. If you were such a keyboard expert, you'd know that you can 1. Press Cmd+Space 2. Type 'wifi' 3. Do whatever you need to do.

Other operating systems having a bad accessibility story is pretty poor justification for Apple backsliding on theirs.

It's not a backslide, though. Control Center has never been accessible by keyboard and neither is the menu bar unless an app has a specific shortcut key.