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You know the dominant apps used on phones have large full screen user-generated video and imagery, right? These are UI elements designed to work great over scrolling content feeds, full screen product images, album artwork, and thirty second videos of people doing meme dances. There is no room for ‘a gray background’.
Now give the laptop back to your parents and go touch grass. This has no place in the desktop.
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Are there accessibility controls to disable it, e.g. reduce transparency? I'd probably do that after the first day of using it.
Yes, thankfully there is. You can reduce the transparency in the Accessibility settings. I’d wish that the computation load / battery drain would also be reduced by reducing the transparency. However, I think that the computation will still take place.
I guess the M-series chips are up to the task, but still seems like unnecessary computation I can't turn off :(
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For all his faults, Jobs always sold the idea that he really thought the stuff he was showing was the coolest thing ever. There was at the very least an illusion of pride and excitement, even if it wasn't always genuine. He'd crack jokes, make off-hand remarks, and wasn't afraid to mention competitor's products. Modern Apple presentations are just like being read some marketing materials. It's very disingenuous.
I always think of the first Power Mac G5 introduction when after 5 slides of CPU block diagrams, talking all kinds of technical details, he gets to “And it has Massive Branch Prediction Logic…which I dunno…it predicts branches!” with a sly shrug.
Here it is if anyone wants to see it:
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A/B testing doesn’t work if the actual answer is C I don’t want my computer (which I use for work) to be a fashion statement. I stare at the UI all day, every day. My opinion matters just as much as any designer’s.
It doesn’t. If yours or my opinion mattered, we’d be staring at garbage all day.
The real question for me - what will my Qt-based Mac apps look like on macOS 26? Are existing controls going to be broken? Am I going to have to get every icon re-done? Apple are not exactly known for putting any effort into backward compatibility.
The real question for me - what will my Qt-based Mac apps look like on macOS 26? Are existing controls going to be broken? Am I going to have to get every icon re-done? Apple are not exactly known for putting any effort into backward compatibility.
GUIs made with cross-platform toolkits, the kinds that do their own rendering on a blank canvas instead of using system controls, always looked like ass on macOS, so nothing new here.
Generally i think the Qt controls look fine on Mac. But it never quite seems to get the spacing and layout correct.
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Apple probably made a mistake by making the developer betas public. So many morons installing them now and crying that it’s buggy.
They have the public betas (available to anyone) but this is a developer beta and requires a developer account (albeit you don't need to pay the $99 anymore). They should probably put it behind the $99 barrier again. It astounds me that people on a site like HN can install a developer beta and then act shocked that it's not 'buttery smooth'. Companies either need to educate people or make it difficult to access beta…
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I mean the idea itself isn't terrible; maybe the glass just needs to have some colour to provide background. Maybe "live glass" instead that knows the context in which it is and applies the right amount of tint of the most appropriate colour based on what's underneath it.
> Maybe "live glass" instead that knows the context in which it is and applies the right amount of tint of the most appropriate colour based on what's underneath it. That’s precisely what it does, only in grayscale
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GUIs made with cross-platform toolkits, the kinds that do their own rendering on a blank canvas instead of using system controls, always looked like ass on macOS, so nothing new here.
IIRC Qt does it's own render on Windows and Mac, but uses the Mac rendering for Mac. Generally i think the Qt controls look fine on Mac. But it never quite seems to get the spacing and layout correct.