Related: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497712
it's as if the icons get added by a lazy LLM prompt during CI
Which is probably exactly what happened. Reportedly Apple is all-in on Claude across the board.
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#22Usually I like Apple’s OS updates but Tahoe is absolutely awful from the glass to the noddy sizing of everything. MacOS does not have to harmonise with VisionOS at all and it’s been a disaster for macOS to try.
I agree. Tahoe is disgustingly unusable; I'm happy that Alan Dye left Apple. I hope Apple will backtrack on Liquid Glass after Tahoe. Otherwise, I'll just switch to Linux.
They will likely tweak it but very unlikely that they’ll remove it altogether, especially with the upcoming touch screen MacBook Pro.
Companies like Apple typically don’t make reversals quickly (the butterfly keyboard took years to remedy).
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#23No screenshot? Dunno what’s all about. What menu?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. Tahoe is disgustingly unusable; I'm happy that Alan Dye left Apple. I hope Apple will backtrack on Liquid Glass after Tahoe. Otherwise, I'll just switch to Linux.
They will likely tweak it but very unlikely that they’ll remove it altogether, especially with the upcoming touch screen MacBook Pro. Companies like Apple typically don’t make reversals quickly (the butterfly keyboard took years to remedy).
They'll do what they always do, it'll be the greatest thing ever just getting minor tweaks for 3-4 releases and then will be superseded by the greatest thing ever.
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#25I was really happy when they added the pictures! Dyslexia, the icons are 100% faster for me, I don't use those menus often enough to know what is in there word wise, but I can read the icons super fast.
How can you read the icons if they mean different things in different apps?
Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can you read the icons if they mean different things in different apps?
Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ (second section on consistency)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can you read the icons if they mean different things in different apps?
Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.
Here's an in-depth analysis (also linked in the OP): https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
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#28Usually I like Apple’s OS updates but Tahoe is absolutely awful from the glass to the noddy sizing of everything. MacOS does not have to harmonise with VisionOS at all and it’s been a disaster for macOS to try.
I don't know, I always see this pattern with iOS or MacOS releases. Everyone piles on at the time.
I've actually quite enjoyed some design changes in Tahoe, and looking at older versions of MacOS just looks old fashioned once you're used to them.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.
Here's an in-depth analysis (also linked in the OP): https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
A lot of the examples in here, I can't find? Like, I looked around for the new smart folder with the cog icon, where is it on my mac? Same with save as check, where is that? Also I'm pretty sure (although I can't find it) the save as with the up arrow is save as out to something? The ones I do find, all make perfect sense and work pretty well for me, they're not totally perfect but I'd never thought about them much before this post and I use them almost exclusively. Look at all his new for example, see new finder window? Look at the box around it, then open your window menu at the top of your screen, see how minimize has the same box around it? If you go though those icons set, most of them have: primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary visual clues. I dunno, I read that blog post and it doesn't really jive with me. I'm sure they could stand to clean it up a bit, I don't know I'm not a designer, but I'm certainly glad they are there!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#30After a good decade of Mac Tahoe made me go back to Linux + tiling WM for my main machine. I just could not stand the awful mess anymore.
Result? inner peace. It is so calm here, and everything is so familiar and fast.
And the MBP hardware seems to be getting shittier too :/ have trackpad issues on both my latest personal and work M4 MBPs.