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Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by interpol_p »

blackhaz wrote: post #83

Apple is no longer about Jobs' "simplicity as the ultimate sophistication". It feels like a bunch of kids with no proper design education competing for the security of their salaries. Apple is dead without Steve. The company has no focal point. They're running solely on the inertia from Mac OS X and the first generations of the iPhone.

That's a pretty extreme take. I've been using the Mac since about 2001. I like Tahoe and a well designed Tahoe app can look really nice on the platform. There are bugs, inconsistencies and other issues, but it doesn't feel that different than many previous macOS / OS X releases

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by iainmerrick »

I dislike Tahoe too, but this particular thing is not new.

I just did an image search for "classic macos" and one of the first hits was from https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/classic-mac-os. Look at those System 1 screenshots, from 42(!) years ago -- round corners on Puzzle and Calculator, square corners on Note Pad and Control Panel! No consistency at all, isn't it infuriating?

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by andix »

Ultimatt wrote: post #64
marxisttemp wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is godawful about it? Tahoe is great. Spotlight shortcuts, LLM actions. “Design is how it works.”

Because Spotlight now rarely finds your applications in search so you can't just quick launch anything.... from a launcher widget

They finally managed to get feature parity with the Windows start menu :)

For around a decade typing "word"+return into the windows start menu search box usually opened Edge with a search result of "ord". Recently it opens Word most of the time.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by Nekorosu »

marxisttemp wrote: post #67
mkzet wrote: post #50

I will never upgrade from Sequoia and when I'll have no other options migrate to another laptop!

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Design is much more than that.

Also, it’s almost as if you can’t imagine that other users might have needs and preferences different from yours.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by blackhaz »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #59
Reason077 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hope they roll back some of the more obnoxious and pointless aspects of "Liquid Glass" in macOS 27. And the super-rounded window corners are high up on my list. Looks childish, wastes screen space, causes so many little annoyances...

I wish too but they can't just back up, that would be a very bad sign for investors.

They'll just come up with round displays. Like on PDP-1.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by afandian »

iainmerrick wrote: post #93

I dislike Tahoe too, but this particular thing is not new. I just did an image search for "classic macos" and one of the first hits was from https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/classic-mac-os . Look at those System 1 screenshots, from 42(!) years ago -- round corners on Puzzle and Calculator, square corners on Note Pad and Control Panel! No consistency at all, isn't it infuriating?

Puzzle and Calculator were Desk Accessories (DAs), a special kind of app.

Some cool details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_accessory

Like Tahoe, it was deliberate and there's an explanation for the difference.

But I do wonder if people at the time felt the same way.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by bestham »

iainmerrick wrote: post #93

I dislike Tahoe too, but this particular thing is not new. I just did an image search for "classic macos" and one of the first hits was from https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/classic-mac-os . Look at those System 1 screenshots, from 42(!) years ago -- round corners on Puzzle and Calculator, square corners on Note Pad and Control Panel! No consistency at all, isn't it infuriating?

“Well actually” in System 1 and later Classic macOS the puzzle and the calculator are ”Desk Accessories” that is applications that can run simultaneously as other apps, even though the operating system does not support multitasking. The rounded corners are there to distinguish them from the current running application.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by iainmerrick »

bestham wrote: post #99
iainmerrick wrote: post #93

I dislike Tahoe too, but this particular thing is not new. I just did an image search for "classic macos" and one of the first hits was from https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/classic-mac-os . Look at those System 1 screenshots, from 42(!) years ago -- round corners on Puzzle and Calculator, square corners on Note Pad and Control Panel! No consistency at all, isn't it infuriating?

“Well actually” in System 1 and later Classic macOS the puzzle and the calculator are ”Desk Accessories” that is applications that can run simultaneously as other apps, even though the operating system does not support multitasking. The rounded corners are there to distinguish them from the current running application.

Yep, I'm aware. Just like Tahoe, it's intentional and there's a rationale behind it. It may or may not be immediately obvious depending on the user, and people may or may not like the way it looks.
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