It’s just… ugly. It’s kind of a retro-ish, but chunky design. It really shows it full ugliness in the Finder windows, especially when you column view (which I default to). It looks like a design by committee mishmash of stuff that all collides. I’m not normally one to hate on stylistic choices in an OS. I’ve never had much interest in “ricing” my environment, but I’m really just not a fan of this.

All the individual little “bubbles” of things instead of buttons, or even just borderless areas denoted by an icon. The way the left column looks like it’s just plopped down on top of the rest of the content. Like it’s a separate entity, but it’s not. Especially noticeable in how the lower cookie crumb trail at the bottom of the window just abruptly ends at the border to the left column. Also, the color choice for the sliders is… bold. Almost the most noticeable thing in the screenshot! This looks like a Linux Enlighenment DE theme from the early `00s trying to emulate OS-X. The dark view looks slightly better.

About the only positive thing I can find is the tolerances around the edges of windows for resizing feels more forgiving than in the past & w/ other operating systems (ahem: Windows). On some OSs/desktop environments, it seems like there’s a 1-2 pixel area where the cursor changes and you can resize a window. In contrast, this works pretty good in Tahoe.

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    4 days ago

    Not a Mac user, so I’m seeing this for the first time. At first I didn’t get what you meant, but the longer I looked the more things I found that bothered me.

    Here’s a list (feel free to add things):

    • corner radius on rounded edges is too large
    • sidebar menu blends poorly with the rest of the UI (lighter color, white frame, no horizontal padding)
    • status line at the bottom is inefficient (could be one line instead of two, not sure why one has a close button) and seems inconsistent with the rest of the UI (thinner lines, no padding at the line ends)
    • horizontal separators in the file tree are too thick (makes them look like scroll bars)
    • tabs at the top look like a giant toggle button (not like tabs)
    • buttons on the top right have a white background that seems unnecessary (the active button goes from light gray to white to medium gray, which is too busy)
    • forward/back buttons on the top right have inconsistent design and look like one of them is active
    • colors for active elements in the outer UI don’t match (light gray in the sidebar menu, medium gray for the top buttons, white for the tabs)

    This is just visuals. I can’t judge the functional aspects of the design.

    • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip
      3·
      3 days ago

      status line at the bottom is inefficient

      One is a path bar, the other is a status bar. The path bar shows you the full filesystem path to where you are, the status bar shows you details like object count and size. They’re independent things that can be separately enabled / disabled through the view menu.

      Also, that’s not a close button. It’s a pencil with a slash through it, the user does not have write permission for that location.

    • Twipped@l.twipped.social
      1·
      3 days ago

      corner radius on rounded edges is too large

      Oh it gets worse, the radius is also inconsistent across different kinds of windows and applications