Ever since they started unifying the toolbar in macOS Big Sur back in 2020 and now with the weird toolbar changes in macOS Tahoe, there is so much discrepancy as to how they work.
For example, you could double-click on the title bar or toolbar to minimize your window. But now with it being unified, you have much less space.
In some apps like Music or Xcode, double-clicking doesn’t even work unless you’re in the sidebar area. This design is beyond frustrating to use.
And we are not even talking how hard it is now to actually drag a window!
Little tiny spaces here and there, and if you miss them, you rotate your PDF or set the dog on fire.
Such an idiotic trash idea.
@cdfinder @marioguzman Why did unify the title bar and toolbar in the first place? It's not like modern computers lack screen real estate.
Same weird thinking in the current System Settings app: Computer screens (with very few exceptions) have landscape orientation. Why apply a portrait-optimized design to this application, then? And even disallow resizing?
So many things in #AppleOS 26 are not just minor differences in opinion; they simply are violations of fundamental IxD principles.
Most of all indeed the important question: Why?
What could we possibly gain from that idiotic mash of a window title bar and the toolbar?
It even looks stupid, so crowded, hard to use, confusing.
And let's not talk about the dumb abbreviated window title than is by default unreadable and requires manual labor to be able to, gasp, read it.
So crazy stupid.
Mario Guzmán
NMDoerner
Jochen Wolters