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Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by mvkel »

klausa wrote: post #315
mvkel wrote: post #313

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The -only- time I experience it infuriatingly is in iOS natively. For example: on the Home Screen, open a folder, then tap outside it to bring back the Home Screen. While the animation is happening, try opening an app. It won't. Open the camera app. Swipe between modes and press the shutter button. It won't work until the animation completes. An especially egregious one: open messages. Tap the + sign, and tap the let…

I wasn’t claiming that Apple apps are immune to this, or even noticeably better — just that this is very much not a OS-level limitation, and something that _can_ be accomplished.

One of the examples I gave is springboard behavior which is very much OS-level

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Post by u_fucking_dork »

jbverschoor wrote: post #166
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #132

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Keyboard works fine. Always has. iPhone just has so many users that there's going to be a plethora of passionate unpleasable nerds for every single facet of it. Even in your ideal virtual keyboard version, there was an army of people complaining that it wasn't a hardware keyboard.

No it doesn’t. It did work fine before. But I had to swipe 3 times to get “fine” instead of “going” just now

Fine fine fine seems to be working fine with swipe and normal, idk dude, maybe y'all are just aging ungracefully

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by u_fucking_dork »

mschulze wrote: post #274
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #132

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Keyboard works fine. Always has. iPhone just has so many users that there's going to be a plethora of passionate unpleasable nerds for every single facet of it. Even in your ideal virtual keyboard version, there was an army of people complaining that it wasn't a hardware keyboard.

Nice strawman, and unnecessary attack. I'm using iPhones since the 3GS, and from time to time type on an Android and the keyboard on iOS _sucks_. As someone else wrote, I am loathing to chat with someone on the phone and rather switch to my laptop.

Nice appeal to been using the phone for long time, but i waited in line for the original so you’ll have to defer to me

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by u_fucking_dork »

yard2010 wrote: post #221
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #132

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Keyboard works fine. Always has. iPhone just has so many users that there's going to be a plethora of passionate unpleasable nerds for every single facet of it. Even in your ideal virtual keyboard version, there was an army of people complaining that it wasn't a hardware keyboard.

This is misinformation, please provide sources to your claims. The iOS keyboard degraded in the latest versiond. https://www.macworld.com/article/2952872/heres-proof-that-th...

Source, my thumb typing this flawlessly with one try.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by submeta »

fifafu wrote: post #257
submeta wrote: post #243

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I tried both. BetterTouchTool does support the no-animation left/right space actions, but on my machine InstantSpaceSwitcher felt a bit snappier for actually moving between spaces, so I kept that for my keyboard shortcuts for previous/next space and direct jumps to a specific desktop. I still use BTT for Mission Control / spaces preview. So for me the final setup is: InstantSpaceSwitcher for fast space switching, BTT…

that is weird, BTT's space switching should really be instant when used via keyboard shortcuts. (Developer of BTT here) One advantage of BTT's current implementation is that it still allows you to move windows to the next/previous space while dragging them and simultaneously executing the "Move Left / Right a space" action. In that case there will be an animation but it will at least work.

It was my fault. Misconfiguration. Just upgraded the license to get this „without animation“ feature and highly recommend BTT.

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Post by mettamage »

godelski wrote: post #146

I think Apple is making a really fatal flaw. Tbh Microsoft is doing it too. Design good interfaces, with sane defaults but do not handcuff power users!!! I often hear people say no one should care because there aren't many power users. They're a small portion, but that's absurd framing. They matter a lot because they're the ones that push your design language, develop new ideas, influence the general community, build…

> Design good interfaces, with sane defaults but do not handcuff power users!!!

Hello iPhone :)

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by donfotto »

veber-alex wrote: post #88
qudat wrote: post #74

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It’s insane and the worst part about Mac OS

Window management on macOS is just trash. 3 people from my team recently switched to macOS and they never owned a mac before and they are all complaining about window management. Do you know how dumb it makes me feel to have to tell them they need to install third party apps just to make their system somewhat usable? it's insane.

Exactly! "It just works" used to be true for macos, and linux was for tinkering. Now, ubuntu "just works" (and fast!).

It's not just that macos is slow and window management is strange. Last time I had a macbook (M2 pro) I needed 3rd party software just to use a 4k external monitor without blurring.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by donfotto »

buster wrote: post #195

I recently had to switch to macos for work and Jesus Christ is this not the pinnacle of engineering. Sure, I'm accustomed to my self configured Linux desktop but boy is Mac OS slow to use and hard to configure. And so keyboard unfriendly.

Same for me even with vanilla ubuntu. "It just works" used to be true for macos, and linux was for tinkering. Now, Ubuntu "just works" (and fast!).

I want a system that works out of the box with sensible defaults. What a strange turn of events that this is a linux system now.

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