Today when cropping an image in Preview.app on Tahoe I ran into an issue where you can't use the bottom of the crop selection rectangle because the rounded corner of the window blocks it.
Pinch (or CMD + minus) zoom out slightly as a workaround.
macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
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> Firstly, alt-tab I assume you mean cmd-tab. >doesn’t consider windows, it considers apps. So if you have multiple browser windows or word windows open, you can’t alt-tab between them. It’s totally confusing. You use cmd-tilde to switch between windows. >So I install an app just to get the normal alt-tab behavior of other OSs, to alt-tab between windows (mine is called alt-tab, and it’s a bit buggy and slow, I think…
I am mildly shocked after almost two decades of Mac use I never came across cmd+tilde thanks a lot!
I see this comment often and I usually pipe up to say that if you don’t have a US ANSI keyboard it can feel unintuitive. You can remap the hotkey to Option + Tab in those cases, easier to get used to.
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#163This one really bothers me. Whenever maximizing or tiling my windows (which is all the time), I see multiple layers of oddly rounded corners. I think if there's any upside to Tahoe, the grievances may push me into blogging for the first time ever, because I can't keep these to myself. I actually feel sorry for Apple's developers because there's no way you ship software this bad and inconsistent unless you've been han…
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It's the lack of attention to detail, from a company who once was famous for its attention to detail.
And it seems they're lacking in many corners (scnr...)
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What is godawful about it? Tahoe is great. Spotlight shortcuts, LLM actions. “Design is how it works.”
Because Spotlight now rarely finds your applications in search so you can't just quick launch anything.... from a launcher widget
My Spotlight was shit. I disabled types of searches that I never used and rebuilt its index. Now it's working as intended.
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#165The justification by Apple is that it keeps the concentricity between window corner and the red/green/yellow window controls. Which, as you may notice, it does. It's wrong though, because the window is the higher element in the hierarchy (container) and should not be affected by what is inside. It creates a larger inconsistency than the "consistency" it supposedly brings.
Here's a Finder window screenshot from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah: https://512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/10-0-Cheeta... Notice two things: 1) The window chrome with traffic lights and title is entirely separate from the toolbar, not unified with the toolbar. 2) The top of the window is rounded, but the bottom of the window is not! I think the old design was superior for several reasons, one of which is that it…
IIRC, you could even "roll up" the window into the top window chrome, with that transparent pill button on the right.
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#166Sequoia is the new Snow Leopard
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Are the Apple-owned app windows inconsistent too? I see some inconsistencies but it's generally 3rd party apps mixed with Apple's apps.
Yes, for example Safari and Terminal have different radiuses. Most of the 1st party apps seem to be the same as Safari, so I guess Terminal didn't fully get "glassed".
I don’t know if they fixed it, but at release the Automator traffic lights appeared outside the corner radius.
Edit: it is fixed and they polished up the UI since then.
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There is so much of that in modern apple. Clear issues caused by a seemingly bright idea, but the idea still pushed forward no matter what. One example that I hate on iOS: the notification/lockscreen curtain is supposed to cover the content as it slides down. That’s what a curtain does, this has been the language for years. Now the curtain is transparent, so it can’t cover the content behind. How does the content dis…
> seemingly bright idea i disagree about that one. im not a UX expert by any means but my first impression at WWDC seeing liquid glass was "holy shit, they pulled that off? i know apple would never compromise on legibility, so... how? there are so many situations where this won't work, and they can't exactly control the content that the buttons are overlaid on top of" cue my confusion when it was exactly that: an obv…
... liquid glass isn't very liquid anymore. it's frosted.
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> seemingly bright idea i disagree about that one. im not a UX expert by any means but my first impression at WWDC seeing liquid glass was "holy shit, they pulled that off? i know apple would never compromise on legibility, so... how? there are so many situations where this won't work, and they can't exactly control the content that the buttons are overlaid on top of" cue my confusion when it was exactly that: an obv…
> i disagree about that one. Why ? I'm sick of square windows. I want disc windows. And instead of scrolling them, i want to rotate them. /s Fixing bugs is hard. Better focus on the aesthetics.
Recall back when Apple had the attention to detail required to implement a Blackberry style thumbwheel as the volume control in the Quicktime Player.