How about let’s not?
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@aral
Blurry transparent is something I like but prefer it to be atleast turned off coz some might not. But this liquid thing is kind of not appealing. Especially the movements, not the UI itself. Like controls flowing etc. Haptic feedback for touches are great, but not necessarily cool when it's fluid.
Ignore my rant, coz I haven't tried it in my hands yet, just saw the videos online.
@aral
But the big question is, how do you get it of your finger after touching the screen?
@aral For accessibility the only thing developers need to know is to include a buttom to turn it off. People with low vision are out of luck with liquid glass, and I'm just glad the design guy who oversaw it is off to Meta. #liquidglass
@aral when I first saw this title on the developer site I thought it was going to be a Jobsian era “antenna gate” style mea culpa from Apple saying “yeah, we made some mistakes, here’s how we’re fixing them”
@aral I so don't understand what's the appeal with this "liquid" trend. It's hard to read, busy, and mismatched. It's just bad design.
@Em0nM4stodon Yep.
It’s not design, it’s decoration.
@aral @Em0nM4stodon I've been a macOS user for most of my life. I've been interested in Linux for years, but I've always been afraid of it.
Without a GUI, I could not use git. Without git, I cannot earn my bread.
Even creating backups seemed more daunting on Linux than a user-friendly Time Machine on macOS.
I've now been learning all the command line tools such tmux, git, neovim, fzf so that I can work fully on Linux and in the terminal even without the GUI apps I've relied on that exist only on macOS.
I don't even know on which version of macOS I'm on. I sat out many major versions because my 256 GB SSD didn't have enough free disk space to do the update and because each new major version was buggier than the one before. I think I'm now on the second-latest after I freed some disk space, but I won't update to the latest macOS.
At my next job I will ask for a non-Apple PC and install Fedora or maybe even Arch. Ubuntu has broken coreutils. Then I can finally even have 32 GB or 64 GB of RAM without paying a kidney.
The people at Apple seem to have forgotten their craft.
@aral Ornamentation is crime @Em0nM4stodon
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