Norbert Heger
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Sindre Sorhussindresorhus
2025-07-08

Menu item icons in macOS 26 reduce usability – should be optional

Please copy-paste the report as a new report in Feedback Assistant if you agree.

github.com/feedback-assistant/

Norbert Heger boosted:
2025-07-03

I’ve got better things to do than write about Liquid Glass (again), and yet, here I am.

🔗 lmnt.me/blog/ive-got-better-th

Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-06-26

@siracusa @kylehalevi What’s really great about these early Aqua designs (the buttons in particular) – they looked translucent without actually being translucent. So they looked cool and glassy but also had perfect legibility at the same time.

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Gibberish and Stuffzhenyiblog
2025-06-19
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Alexander Käßneralexkaessner@mas.to
2025-06-17

After a week seeing the new #LiquidGlass now, what is your stance on the new designs?

Boosts for reach appreciated ✌️

Norbert Heger boosted:
2025-06-16

Saw this on my kitchen counter today and thought „hmm, ‚Solid Porcelain‘ might be a cool design language, actually.“

Can do the same 3d effects, nice highlights / reflections, and easier to read on than the transparency of #LiquidGlass. Plus, stuff sticking out of the icon is always fun. #iOS #MacOS #WWDC25

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦mackuba.eu@bsky.brid.gy
2025-06-16

Omg yes this, ffs 😩 via @mindaugasrudokas.com #wwdc25

Structurally having window controls inside the sidebar panel also means the following:

Simplified image of a macOS Tahoe window with a sidebar, where the sidebar is a floating round-rect above the left side of the window, with the traffic light buttons on the sidebar, and there are lines pointing at them describing them as: "Close sidebar", "Minimize sidebar", "Full-window sidebar"
Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-06-15

@tuomas_h This looks sooooo much better!

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Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦tuomas_h
2025-06-15

Mockup time! What could be a reasonable "middle ground" between the Mac OS design that we have today and the radical Liquid Glass design we saw this week from ?

Disclaimer: this does not attempt to solve all the issues of modern Mac OS design, such as cramped toolbars caused by full-height sidebars and combining the toolbar with the title bar. I feel like the Apple of today is too far gone to do anything about those.

Read on to see what I actually tried to address.

Screenshot from Mac OS Tahoe 26 where the Finder window has been recreated in an alternative style.
Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-06-12

They needed a study to find that out?
orf.at/stories/3396532/

Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-06-12

@mattro Looks so much better!

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2025-06-12

Something cool about _the new way_, is Apple are kind enough to include their SVGs in asset catalogs. You can reassemble icons in Icon Composer and re-colour them. *fixed*.

The macOS 26 Finder icon, with the colours switched back to their correct sides.A dark variant of the macOS 26 Finder icon, with the colours switched back to their correct sides.A clear variant of the macOS 26 Finder icon, with the colours switched back to their correct sides.
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Steve Troughton-Smithstroughtonsmith
2025-06-10

Liquid Glass feels like that earliest reveal of Aqua — flashy, and completely over the top and needing twelve months of refinement and public feedback to get the balance quite right. The problem is, Apple's yearly schedule doesn't allow for that kind of iteration before release; we have about a week or two to get our feedback in, but this plane's going to land in September regardless

Aqua desktop on Mac OS X Developer Preview 3, in 2000
Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-06-09

@natpanferova To me it seems ALL of them are available!

Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-05-31

Are you serious, Apple? Will you now show these nagging dialogs for every app that ships with macOS?

And where’s the “Don’t show again” button?

Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-05-21

@lapcatsoftware They even ask for a sysdiagnose when you report a typo in the documentation…

Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-05-14

@ptujec You are making very good progress on this 🤣

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Tim Clevenger :donor:timjclevenger@infosec.exchange
2025-05-12
Screenshot taken from a mobile phone of a Wired article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable." More than half of the screen is covered by a cookie warning.
Norbert Heger boosted:
Pranay Parabprawnay
2025-05-10

Apple's security prompts are bordering on paranoia now. I took a screenshot on my iPhone and sent it to my Mac, and now Apple won't let me open it. This is ridiculous!

A yellow exclamation mark logo at the top, followed by the text:
”Friday, 09 May 2025
17/26/58.png" Not Opened
Apple could not verify "Friday, 09 May
2025 17/26/58.png" is free of malware
that may harm your Mac or compromise
your privacy.
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Nathan Manceaux-PanotCykelero@mas.to
2025-05-10

Pixelmator Pro release notes over time. Slightly changed since being acquired by Apple.

3.6.18
This update contains bug fixes and improvements.

3.6.17
This update contains bug fixes and improvements.

3.6.16
This update contains bug fixes and improvements.

3.6.15

This update includes an important announcement regarding Pixelmator Pro.

3.6.14
Pixelmator Pro 3.6.14 adds a few fixes to keep the app running smoothly.

• If the Photos browser was opened and closed before information about the Photos library was fetched, the next time the
browser would be opened, the search feature would not work. Fixed.
• In the Photos browser, album names would not be truncated as they should when there isn't enough space. Fixed.

3.6.13
Pixelmator Pro 3.6.13 adds a few fixes to keep the app running smoothly.

• Painting while pressing and holding the Shift key would not paint straight lines. Fixed.
• Attempting to drag and drop a style to the bottom of the list of styles would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly when colors with certain color spaces were selected in the toolbar. Fixed.
• On certain versions of macOS, the Pixelmator Pro preview extension would quit unexpectedly. Fixed.

Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!

3.6.12
Pixelmator Pro 3.6.12 adds a few small fixes and stability improvements.

Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!

3.6.11.
Pixelmator Pro 3.6.1 chan

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