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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. rayiner · · focus · HN ↗
      The centering bugs are important. They show attention to detail. Humans are wired to see such sloppiness as indicative of deeper problems. If they can’t get the easy stuff right, it saps your trust that they got the harder stuff right.
      1. drfloyd51 · · focus · HN ↗
        If they can’t get stuff you think is easy right, it saps your trust that they got the things you think are harder right.

        Centering is not easy. Apparently. It requires human eye to verify. I can prove my decryption algorithm works. I can’t prove centering works.

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