A screenshot of the «after» would clear up a lot of confusion
Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
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Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#32The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…
The linked article on medium was also written by AI, which immediately disqualifies it from being interesting or useful. "And the worst part? Apple didn’t provide a switch to turn it off." Now see, this is AI. A normal human being would write, "Apple didn't even provide any way to switch off this non-feature" - for example. AI always , for reasons that are likely neither interesting nor especially illuminating, write…
If AI does this, it's because it's ingested the last 25 years of bad internet headlines. Written allegedly by humans.
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#33The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…
The linked article on medium was also written by AI, which immediately disqualifies it from being interesting or useful. "And the worst part? Apple didn’t provide a switch to turn it off." Now see, this is AI. A normal human being would write, "Apple didn't even provide any way to switch off this non-feature" - for example. AI always , for reasons that are likely neither interesting nor especially illuminating, write…
And to be honest? It’s really annoying indeed.
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#34The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…
The linked article on medium was also written by AI, which immediately disqualifies it from being interesting or useful. "And the worst part? Apple didn’t provide a switch to turn it off." Now see, this is AI. A normal human being would write, "Apple didn't even provide any way to switch off this non-feature" - for example. AI always , for reasons that are likely neither interesting nor especially illuminating, write…
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Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#35I have no idea what this is fixing. > Note: This does not change the rounded corners of individual app windows. It only restores the straight silhouette at the edges of your display. My display does not have rounded corners. I am on macOS Tahoe using external monitors. I know that newer macbooks have rounded display corners, but those are rounded at the hardware level afaik, those corner pixels simply don't exist. An…
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Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?
> I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens? Running an Apple Studio Display here, and no rounded corners at any edges. So, just for non-Apple monitors?
Running two Lenovo ThinkVision displays off of my work MacBook Pro.
On the MBP built-in display, the upper-left and upper-right corners are rounded. I believe this is due to the shape of the display. The bottom corners are not rounded.
On the external displays, the corners are all square.
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#37Your GitHub repo and the associated medium article do a great job of describing the problem and the solution that you settled on. I don’t understand why you didn’t include a screenshot of what this looks like though. The suitability of your tool depends on what it looks like. Please, always include screenshots in open source projects that are aesthetic in nature.
I assume it doesn't look very good if they didn't want to show it off.
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The linked article on medium was also written by AI, which immediately disqualifies it from being interesting or useful. "And the worst part? Apple didn’t provide a switch to turn it off." Now see, this is AI. A normal human being would write, "Apple didn't even provide any way to switch off this non-feature" - for example. AI always , for reasons that are likely neither interesting nor especially illuminating, write…
I'm not saying you're wrong about this article being AI-written, but I know people who write like this, and I hate it.
Exactly. AI wrote this way because humans wrote this way. Just as humans used em-dashes long before AI was a thing.
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#39I think this project is best described by one of my favorite quotes from Top Gear: “an ingenious solution to a problem that should never have existed in the first place”.
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Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#40I have no idea what this is fixing. > Note: This does not change the rounded corners of individual app windows. It only restores the straight silhouette at the edges of your display. My display does not have rounded corners. I am on macOS Tahoe using external monitors. I know that newer macbooks have rounded display corners, but those are rounded at the hardware level afaik, those corner pixels simply don't exist. An…
Okay so this is not just useless but actually detrimental to the UX.
Oh, boy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the author vibe-coded this, seeing as the article they reference was very much entirely written by AI.