I have mixed feelings about Catalyst, but at least it moves in lockstep with iOS advancements/deprecations and isn't holding macOS development back for the sake of backwards compatibility with some obscure thing from 20+ years ago.
Google and Microsoft are the worst for this. When you sign on you can see it flashing through several of their products, signing you on in each, before finally redirecting you to wherever you intended to go.
It might be done for user retention reasons with the idea that people are more likely to use sites they're already signed into, but I really don't need to be signed into YouTube when I sign into my Google work account. Please just skip that and sign in a few seconds quicker.
This is what happens when you have a leaning tower of abstractions, with each layer being developed with a philosophy of, "it's good enough". Some performance loss is unavoidable when you're adding layers, but that aforementioned attitude of indifference has a multiplicative effect which dramatically increases losses. By the time you get to the endpoint, the losses snowball into something rather ridiculous.
In the case of YouTube at least, to me this seems like it's probably overcorrection being done to try to manage the particular brand of extremely over-the-top negativity that's commonly seen in the comments section. Comments like this often require moderation for being abusive or otherwise breaking ToS but can't be handled right away, so they bubble the positive comments up to so at least the questionable comments are buried a bit and don't get as strong of a bandwagon effect.
If this is what's actually happening, it's a case of particularly nasty commenters ruining it for everybody.
> If liberals in your country are good at technology and conservatives are not, the liberal point of view will look like it's being pushed.
Awareness of the rules makes a difference too.
If a particular political group is frequently posting videos that flagrantly break the TOS (as might happen with particularly polarized members), they're much more likely to get reported and banned before they make much headway. It's creators that sit firmly within the rules or carefully run right up alongside their boundaries that do well in the long term.
This has also been my experience. Whenever I view the YouTube homepage signed out or in an incognito window, the video/creator selection is almost wholly alien and often very unaligned with my personal views.
I may be misunderstanding but aren’t monochrome OLED panels (which are available in various colors) comprised of single-color pixels? If so it seems like they’d be the closest possible analogue.
I build bespoke UI elements for iOS apps all the time and building them in such a way that they look and function correctly not only across light/dark and accessibility modes but also future OS versions is not that difficult, and with how they’re built I don’t see them breaking even if iOS took on a radically different appearance. They might not match perfectly but usability will not be impacted.
If this is not reasonably possible with GTK, then it seems pretty clearly like a weakness of how GTK handles themes. Personally, I believe that CSS is ill-suited for the task and is responsible for many of the issues depicted in that blog post.
I get what you’re saying but I find GNOME more evocative of iPadOS than macOS. It’s almost exactly what you would get if you tried to create a desktop environment using an iPad as a starting point.
macOS still has several traditional desktop affordances that are eschewed by GNOME, like full menus (not just hamburger junk drawer menus) and customizable toolbars.
Yep and that’s great, but there are still other legitimate uses for theming. One of mine is cutting down padding to reasonable levels — GNOME is much more usable to me when using a theme like Nordic or Skeuos, both of which do that.
Kaleidoscope and later on Appearance Manager in Classic Mac OS were so much fun. No OS theming system I’ve encountered since have been as capable as those were.
In some cases badly designed themes (like dark gray labels on black backgrounds) are the culprit, but most often it’s a result of the app developers hard coding colors in their UI elements assuming all users will be using a similar theme.
That’s not only bad for custom theme users, it’s bad for accessibility since there’s no way for increased contrast modes to modify the hard coded colors. Apps really just shouldn’t hard code colors.
The “don’t theme my app” thing just tells me that GNOME/GTK+/Adwaita aren’t built in a way that gracefully handles theming, or that devs building apps with them are doing things like hard coding colors when they should be using dynamic system colors such as those provided by UIColor[0] in UIKit.
Cross platform Cocoa would be a dream, even if it doesn’t check all of the current buzzword boxes. It’s great to work with and quite consistently when working in other toolkits I find myself a bit disappointed about how many widgets are missing or how bare bones the widgets are compared to Cocoa. The only thing that really comes close is Qt Widgets, which I find takes a good deal more effort to produce a good looking product with and doesn’t feel as nice to work with.
A few months ago I was considering outfitting my apartment with Ubiquiti gear but ultimately decided to stick to an aging AirPort Extreme and a couple of cheap ethernet switches after seeing reports of bugs with various Ubiquiti pieces. Seems that was a good judgement…
The major Linux desktop environments seem to be perpetually stuck in a weird almost-good-enough-but-not-quite state where all the broad strokes are right, but the fine details are marred with small quirks and papercuts. So close yet so far. It’s a bit frustrating.
I haven’t used LXDE/LxQt in several years but this has been my experience as well. XFCE feels like an intentional, designed singular “piece” where LxQt feels stitched together.
Tasman was actually quite good, too. It was a great deal better than trident in many regards, ranging from the ability to properly handle transparent PNGs to more complete and correct CSS support. IE for Mac was a great browser for years after IE 5/6 had grown long on the tooth. I always wondered why it didn’t get ported to Windows to replace Trident.