Hello Mac OS X Tiger

Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger by kergonath on Monday January 17, 2022 @10:25AM (#29967462)

I loved Aqua, particularly after they toned down the pin stripes and transparency, so, yes, around Tiger (and up until around Snow Leopard). It was indeed a great step forward in terms of UI, which cannot be said of many more recent releases.

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Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger by philistine on Monday January 17, 2022 @12:07PM (#29968720)

Everybody is very positive about Tiger’s UI, but what I remember were the disjointed elements. Brushed metal was prevalent in many apps, and completely broke the UI’s look.

Even though we have many gaping holes in the details of the current UI due to the many paradigms (SwiftUI, AppKit, Catalyst), skin-deep macOS is much more agreeable.

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Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger by kergonath on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:08PM (#29970436)

Yeah brushed metal from the experiments in Panther was still too present. It got better with Leopard.

Cocoa apps are mostly fine in modern macOS. Their main issues are the lack of contrast*, but things like the dark theme are great. From what I have seen SwiftUI is fine too, although it still has some way to go to catch up with AppKit, and has some rough edges. Catalyst is plain garbage, though.

* a pet peeve: I have to click 3 times when I want to make sure that the shuffle mode is either on or off in Music. Another one: document proxy icons are getting hidden and harder to use, even though they are a fantastic feature of the OS. There's a bunch of others features that are becoming more and more obscure, which is a damn shame.

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