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macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

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  1. rafram · · focus · HN ↗
    I don't know, there are definitely some rough edges (particularly with the menu bar for some reason - big rewrite there?), but overall I'm quite happy with Golden Gate. "Buggy mess" is some serious hyperbole.

    Of the issues they report:

    - The centering bugs seem... not very important.

    - The Mac User Guide looks fine to me. Shows "for macOS 27."

    - Network app?

    - Why are you looking at the Mission Control app icon at 20x zoom? And in any case, doesn't it seem reasonable to simplify the traffic light design to a flat circle for an icon that will be displayed very small 99.9% of the time?

    - Firefox bugs are bugs in Firefox. (I also keep experiencing the stuck menu bug, but again, Firefox bug.)

    - "You can find references to NeXTSTEP, the ancestor of macOS, in its UI!" No, that's not what that means.

    - "I have a folder open in the Dock. If I click on another folder, shouldn't that then open?" Yes, and it does.

    - The rest, sure.

    1. SquareOrbits · · focus · HN ↗
      Oh, hyperbole and a half. It's a useable OS.

      - Centring _is_ important! How dare you!

      - Same for me now. Wasn't when I used it a few days ago.

      - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      - Very pedantic, I know. But look at some of the other icons close up, lots contain tiny details very few ever see (try the Mail app, the icon of a text file, or the loupe on the old Preview icon). That obsessive attention to detail feels like it's now in the past.

      - Yeah could well be Firefox's fault. But it surfaced in Golden Gate, so I included it.

      - You can trace anything NS* back to NeXTSTEP

      - Not for me!

      - :)

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