Re:Apple in 2021
by dont__panic on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:51PM
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The "new folder" workflow in Finder is one of the most infuriating things I've ever seen in macOS. I swear, they used to just have a "new folder" button in the olden days.
Re:Apple in 2021
by davidbarker on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:36PM
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I actually didn't know there ever used to be a New Folder button, but that prompted me to customise the toolbar in Finder and I see it as an option (and have now added it).
Re:Apple in 2021
by dont__panic on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:51PM
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OK I'll admit I didn't realize you could right click -> "customize toolbar". That seems to work in almost all native apps (Mail and Finder for me, at least). And you can turn on text labels in the options!
Finally I can get rid of the tagging button in Finder and replace it with a New Folder button. And I can ditch all of those buttons I don't use at the top of the Mail app to keep the "search" bar open at all times.
Cmd+Shift+N works, when the UI fails.
It was really frustrating till I realized they didn't completely remove the button. The icon is just hidden in the customise toolbar options.
They still have a new folder button. I still see it
I just want their native apps to work, and a lot of times I find they are busted. No excuse for that.
They don’t handle failure well. I’m not sure if this has always been the case, but the fact that most have some sort of network component now have made it very obvious.
The general lack of visibility into what is actually happening is incredibly annoying. Anything that involves syncing is in dire need of “stop and start again” button.
I actually just found out that you could force a resync on the podcasts app on macos by hitting CMD + R and that has solved some of the issues I have where I just wait around for new episodes to sync (pull down for refresh is a nightmare with a trackpad on a mac laptop). But still, it's slow (can take 10-20 seconds for a podcast to begin playing), buggy (can take a full minute for the title to appear in the display after it has already started-- so you cannot skip the first 30 seconds of ads), or just broken (havent started the app in a while? guess I will crash trying to sync all those episodes you missed). Really infuriating.
Re:Apple in 2021
by egypturnash on Monday February 07, 2022 @02:39PM
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ugh yes, also a "sync right now" button
Things went downhill rapidly when Jony Ive’s team took over software design. I wasn’t a huge fan of the gaudy extreme skeuomorphism of the late Forstall era, but at least you could tell what was a button. What you could do with a piece of software was much clearer.
The current team are insistent that simplicity is when controls are hidden behind hover and tap states, or inside overflow menus in a toolbar only 5% full.