Marcin WicharyMar 4

Ugh, Tahoe is so unpolished that if you press on any menu like this the pop-up contents that appear are misaligned…

…which doesn’t seem like much until you realize that if you click at the bottom, a click and release *without moving your mouse*, which was always 100% safe (and a way to “peek” into a menu to see what’s inside), can now accidentally change your option.

MathiasTCKMar 9
Show threadMarcin Wichary
I was bothered by it and wrote more about it: https://unsung.aresluna.org/not-a-mountain-but-not-a-molehill-either/
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Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 4
The irony is that I discovered it while working on another piece that criticizes Apple.
Show threadJulius WelbyMar 6
@mwichary Do you think the OS is doing sentiment analysis, and the more negative you get about Apple in a document the more the UI degrades?
Show threadcliffleMar 4

@mwichary I'm a little surprised to note that your Sequoia screencap shows that the text jumps a few pixels to the right when the menu is opened.

One of the things that struck me about MacOS back when I used to develop apps for it was the degree of consistency in things like that, and in particular, the fact that the text did not jump _at all_ in cases like this. (This would be up through approximately Snow Leopard.)

So it seems things were already starting to slip by the time Sequoia came out.

Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 4
@cliffle Yeah… I noticed that too. I just didn’t want to dilute the story too much. Plus, it seems specific to this one in particular – other ones still feel more stable. In Tahoe, they are all misaligned.