Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger
by ImprovedSilence on Monday January 17, 2022 @08:42AM
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Wow, Agreed. The window shadows here really help them pop way more than I remember, and they seem to do a much better job delineating overlapping windows than the current “styles”.
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macOS still has window shadows and they are still the same size (by eyeballing them). The only difference is that in dark mode the shadows are of course less visible because the contents of windows are darker.
Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger
by kitsunesoba on Monday January 17, 2022 @10:32AM
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At some point, window shadows became much more diffused. I think the release that implemented this change was mountain lion.
I keep a Snow Leopard VM around to occasionally run old software in and the difference in shadow size is always striking. I personally like the more focused look of pre-10.7 shadows.
Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger
by Wowfunhappy on Monday January 17, 2022 @06:46PM
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I just took a look, and I really can't see any difference between the window shadows on my Mavericks machine and my Snow Leopard VM. The Mavericks shadows may be ever-so-slightly stronger.
You may be thinking of Yosemite, which definitely toned down the shadows a bit as part of flattening everything.
Ah yes. When looking at it it does indeed look darker towards the window in the screenshots.