How Intuitive Are Macs Really?

Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really? by samatman on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:46PM (#27267428)

It's better than nothing, and yeah, probably better than the competition as well.

But then there are core features like "a file icon on a document window can be dragged exactly like a file icon in the finder" that you can use macOS for years and never find. That's before they started hiding the file icons in Big Sur!

macOS is packed with little things like that.

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Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really? by szhu on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:04PM (#27267666)

It still works in Big Sur! Just hover over the window title and the icon (called the "document proxy icon") will appear.

I think it's fine that they hid it, since even before, the things you can do with it (dragging, cmd/ctrl-clicking) were already hidden.

The only old functionality that is lost with Big Sur is that you could glance at the icon to see if there are unsaved changes (if so, the icon would be dimmed). But you can still tell by looking for the dot in the red close button.

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Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really? by yknuri on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:34PM (#27268701)

I had no idea one could do this!

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Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really? by nneonneo on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:00PM (#27267622)

Or, that you can Cmd+click on the document icon or name in any titlebar to pull up a menu of its containing directories. This one is _super_ handy and has zero discoverability.

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