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Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by jwells89 »

harshaxnim wrote: post #157
karmakaze wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never really understood the appeal of tiling window managers. I've gotten used to having overlapping windows with appropriate parts peek out out behind others. e.g. tail of a log behind an editor running a program, and I can bring it to the foreground to see older lines and/or scroll. To do the same with a tiling manager, I would zoom the logging pane. I suppose I just prefer less layout changes. Same for Slack, I…

With tiling managers you can do all you just listed + quick snapping. Who would say no to that?

The WM being tiling-dominant doesn’t really make sense if one only ever tiles the odd window every now and then. In that situation it makes more sense to use a floating-dominant WM with light tiling features (like that of Windows, most major Linux DEs, and now macOS).

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by lioeters »

xlii wrote: post #59
wwalexander wrote: post #2

I never thought I’d see the day macOS would get tiling window management. Wonder how it will interact with Stage Manager if at all.

2 days ago I complained that Apple has stalled when it came to window management. I wonder if Tim Cook is reading HN ;)

He might have someone (or something) who reads and summarizes HN, so he can keep a finger on the pulse.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by TylerE »

sircastor wrote: post #172
karmakaze wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never really understood the appeal of tiling window managers. I've gotten used to having overlapping windows with appropriate parts peek out out behind others. e.g. tail of a log behind an editor running a program, and I can bring it to the foreground to see older lines and/or scroll. To do the same with a tiling manager, I would zoom the logging pane. I suppose I just prefer less layout changes. Same for Slack, I…

I generally agree with you. I use my Mac with most of the windows overlapped most of the time. But occasionally I need them side-by-side to do some work. Typically referencing documents or code. Fortunately the introduction of this looks to just be an optional feature rather than a dictated "way things are". An overlapped/stacked interface is fine a lot of the time, but the flexibility is important. What really drive…

You can solve that easily with the free rectangle app today.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by isametry »

nostrademons wrote: post #57

I wonder how the "seamlessly drag and drop files, photos, and videos between your iPhone and Mac" will work. Right now, if you just want to grab the raw files of your photos and videos and not deal with the Photos app, your best bet is Image Capture, a 20+ year old seemingly unmaintained program that seems to glitch out disturbingly frequently. I really hope they can introduce something that seamlessly lets you drag…

> and not deal with the Photos app

What’s the point of this qualifier?

Why not use the current, up-to-date default app for photo import that has been there since 2002 to literally serve this purpose? Yes it has a lot of extra functionality, but that doesn’t mean you have to use it. You can get originals from Photos and be done with it…

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by mleo »

nostrademons wrote: post #116
StrLght wrote: post #88

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It's already been working for quite some time: shared clipboard on iOS and macOS has supported photos and videos since more than 2 years ago. I'd expect drag-and-drop works the same way.

Like I mentioned in another comment, I've got 2000+ photos to dump onto an external hard drive (Samba share technically, but I can always move from local disk to SMB easily). I'm not going to cut & paste 2000 photos individually. Hell, I don't even want to select 2000 photos for a batch operation.

You can use Image Capture with phone plugged into USB and then drag and drop photos/videos to any folder.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by sircastor »

TylerE wrote: post #183
sircastor wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I generally agree with you. I use my Mac with most of the windows overlapped most of the time. But occasionally I need them side-by-side to do some work. Typically referencing documents or code. Fortunately the introduction of this looks to just be an optional feature rather than a dictated "way things are". An overlapped/stacked interface is fine a lot of the time, but the flexibility is important. What really drive…

You can solve that easily with the free rectangle app today.

Yes, I actually use Rectangle on both my work and personal laptops.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by woah »

adamors wrote: post #24

Should have called it Sherlock as they seem to be Sherlocking a lot of apps. For instance I only use Fantastical because I can see my reminders with my events, I assume many people will also switch from a paid password manager to this as well.

I'm guessing (and Apple is probably betting) that far more new users of Passwords will be switching from not having used a password manager at all, not switching from a different password manager. I pay for Bitwarden, and will probably continue doing so because I can't be bothered to switch.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by thenaturalist »

Might seem like a small one, but finally: a passwords app.

That one really makes me happy.

1Password was a bliss until they went all in on subscriptions, and Bitwarden, for all its benefits is, I gotta say, rather abysmal when it comes to GUI and UX of their native app.

The Passwords app looks like the best of both worlds in terms of UX and functionality.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by isametry »

aldonius wrote: post #176
cjk2 wrote: post #107

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Err we already have that in Sonoma. Press F3 and move the mouse to the top of the screen. You can even switch between them with a triple swipe on a magic trackpad...

If you can _rename_ desktops though, I've never seen how. e.g. in Mission Control right now I have "Desktop 1", "Desktop 2", and full-screened iTerm2 on my external monitor, plus "Desktop 3" and about 6 other fullscreen apps on my laptop. I have somewhat semantic meaning for what each of those three numbered desktops are, but it'd be nice to _name_ them.

I find it helpful to set a different wallpaper for every space. In fact, that approach has been so useful that I’ve mostly stopped wishing to rename the spaces – I can glance at the colors so much faster than I could ever read a written title anyway.
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