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Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by dewey »

Reason077 wrote: post #6

I wish Apple would bring back the Dashboard for modern macOS versions, using the modern widget technology. I like the modern widgets but it's awkward that you can only use them on the desktop or notification centre. It's been gone for years now, but I still really miss Dashboard! What I'd like is: * Dashboard is a special desktop that appears to the left of the main desktop * Can be accessed with a single F-key press…

I'm not sure what it was called but the "web clipping" Widget was always my favorite. It worked really well to just have a always updated time table from your school in the dashboard just by basically taking a screenshot of it once.

Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by zombot »

> it was time to leave modern macOS behind.

I can relate. But there's one thing I really find great in Sonoma: Select Cyrillic text and hit the keyboard shortcut for Speech and it pronounces the text in Russian. Select Japanese text and it pronounces it in Japanese. And so on. Also, translations or transcripts of such texts in images. Finally an alternative to Google Translate!

But I'm still pissed that I can't install 10.14 on the latest Intel iMac, the hardware won't let me. You cannot run one of the more resource-hungry games on Intel macOS > 10.15 any more. For Apple Silicon, they don't even exist.

Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by fsiefken »

zombot wrote: post #23

> it was time to leave modern macOS behind. I can relate. But there's one thing I really find great in Sonoma: Select Cyrillic text and hit the keyboard shortcut for Speech and it pronounces the text in Russian. Select Japanese text and it pronounces it in Japanese. And so on. Also, translations or transcripts of such texts in images. Finally an alternative to Google Translate! But I'm still pissed that I can't insta…

you might be able to run them with https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover or parallels if that doesn't work someone got steamvr running with his quest on parallels

Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by emchammer »

CalRobert wrote: post #13
behnamoh wrote: post #8

macOS keyboard shortcuts situation is weird. it shines where Windows is lacking, and falls behind where Windows is ahead. Example: I still don't know how to install an app (*.pkg) just using keyboard on macOS. On Windows, it's simply "press tab or alt and see what happens". Another example: on Windows I can press Alt and see a letter underlined in the menu to let me know what keyboard shortcut activates it, but on ma…

For peak usability, Windows 3.1 kept the mnemonics underlined _all the time_. It's been downhill since then. Though I'm looking at the menu bar on Firefox on Ubuntu right now and at least the mnemonics are underlined now as I type, even without hitting "alt".

Oh, man, I had forgotten about having the menu keyboard shortcuts underlined all the time. Sometimes you could even tell that whoever had a sense of humor in choosing the mnemonics. I don't even know how to open the macOS menu bar without my keyboard now.

After doing an Internet search for it, I have learned that it is Fn-Control-F2, after enabling Full Keyboard Access in Accessibility. How could it get this bad? (Apple's other accessibility features are amazing.)

Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by tom_ »

egypturnash wrote: post #14
behnamoh wrote: post #8

macOS keyboard shortcuts situation is weird. it shines where Windows is lacking, and falls behind where Windows is ahead. Example: I still don't know how to install an app (*.pkg) just using keyboard on macOS. On Windows, it's simply "press tab or alt and see what happens". Another example: on Windows I can press Alt and see a letter underlined in the menu to let me know what keyboard shortcut activates it, but on ma…

on Windows I can press Alt and see a letter underlined in the menu to let me know what keyboard shortcut activates it Have you not noticed that every MacOS menu item that has a keyboard shortcut has the entire shortcut listed on the right side of the menu? This goes back all the way to System 1 in 1984: https://web.archive.org/web/20140512112637/http://www3.nd.ed... It's somewhat more obvious when you're using a keyb…

Menu items on Windows can have 2 shortcuts - a keyboard shortcut like the macOS equivalent, that can activate the item when the menu is closed, and an access key, that can be used to activate it when the menu has keyboard focus. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...

(The access key concept applies to many other types of control. Anything with a text label can have one, pretty much.)

The shortcut is indicated towards at the side of the menu bar, like macOS. The access key is indicated by an underlined letter. For example, in Firefox, the File > Save Page As... menu item has a shortcut key (Ctrl+S), and an access key (A). The A in As is underlined to indicate the access key, and there's a right-aligned Ctrl+S in that row of the menu bar to indicate the shortcut.

Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by ksec »

10 years after introduction, Swift is now 6.1 and soon to be 6.2. May be another revision or two before finalising on 7.0 ? Then may be Apple could rewrite everything in Swift 7 ?

I know this sounds fun or cool for a lot people on HN. But I much rather they kept Objective-C and keep refining old codebase for the past 10 years instead.

And as many have noted. macOS is now huge. And apart from continuity I dont know any recent macOS feature that made any different for me. We are now close to yet another remake for UI with Vision OS styles.

May be they will do a big clean up when they stop supporting x86 Mac. But I wont be holding my breath.

Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by mattl »

Hackbraten wrote: post #22
mattl wrote: post #2

The effect on that page is awful. I also suspect not great on older Macs.

I wish it at least honored the prefers-reduced-motion [0] setting. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

I have that and dark mode on all the time. It’s sad the number of sites that don’t support it.

Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by wtallis »

boxed wrote: post #17
wtallis wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I still don't know how to install an app (*.pkg) just using keyboard on macOS. On Windows, it's simply "press tab or alt and see what happens". You may be looking for the "Keyboard navigation" preference that lets you tab between controls like on Windows.

I believe they're talking about menu access.

Menus aren't part of the GUI flow for installing a .pkg; you just open it from the Finder and click through the dialog boxes, or set the aforementioned option and tab to the right buttons.

Re: Projects for Old OS X

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Post by Lammy »

mattl wrote: post #2

The effect on that page is awful. I also suspect not great on older Macs.

It's one of the most obnoxious things I've seen in a while, but a good excuse to test my uBlock rule skills:

  jonathanalland.com##*:matches-css(transform: /.*/):style(opacity: 1 !important; transform: none !important; transition-property: none !important; transition: none !important;)
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