"apps will respect this change after relaunching" ...? I'm not seeing that happen. restart required?
Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 b…
Yeah should be an accessibility setting for the few users who need it
Re: Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
#53Currently I’m blocking the Tahoe updates with Little Snitch. If that becomes untenable I’ll just run Sequoia in a VM.
I’d like to know what rules you use to prevent Tahoe updates while allowing Sequoia updates. It would be quite useful to me, and I guess, to others here who use Little Snitch.
Re: Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
#54"apps will respect this change after relaunching" ...? I'm not seeing that happen. restart required?
I guess, this means logging out as the current user and logging in again, so that the various services are relaunched with changed settings.
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#56After 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.
Window management on OSX/macOS cost me so much time of my life, still the hardware and overall experience is pretty nice.
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#57I 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.
It shouldn’t even be just you and others with dyslexia either.
Processing images is always faster than processing text for everyone.
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#58> I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons.
> It makes menus hard to scan
I disagree, I like them, and I'm glad there's an option
With billions of users, it doesn't make sense to offer just one style for everything for everyone, like all the OSes are these days. Hell the Switch and Switch 2 still doesn't have much options beyond Bright/Dark mode.
The only actual solution is customizability; let users fuck themselves up however they want, but always leave a quick "Reset to Defaults" panic button within reach :)
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#59I 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.
It shouldn’t even be just you and others with dyslexia either. Processing images is always faster than processing text for everyone.
I would argue this is only true when the image is apt. In Tahoe I don't think this is always true. The lack of consistency in layout and presence of icons is also visually difficult to process. The signal to noise ratio of the icon gutter is very poor.
I like it in theory but the execution seems more harmful than helpful so far. If I'm wrong and it's helping some people, that's great.
Re: Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
#60Currently I’m blocking the Tahoe updates with Little Snitch. If that becomes untenable I’ll just run Sequoia in a VM.
I’d like to know what rules you use to prevent Tahoe updates while allowing Sequoia updates. It would be quite useful to me, and I guess, to others here who use Little Snitch.
Just enable the Sequoia developer/beta channel. You won’t see other updates then.