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.
> particularly with the menu bar for some reason - big rewrite there?
This bothers me. Why would you rewrite the menu bar, something that works?!
I keep seeing new kinds of menu items in macOS. The menu for Focus mode is completely different in rendering than the menu for Wifi, say. Surely (I think to myself) all these should be inbuilt system menus -- that is, reusable shared code -- that are consistent? Or is macOS just getting rewritten, ad hoc yet wholesale, half the UI custom not system?
rafram · · focus · HN ↗
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.
vintagedave · · focus · HN ↗
This bothers me. Why would you rewrite the menu bar, something that works?!
I keep seeing new kinds of menu items in macOS. The menu for Focus mode is completely different in rendering than the menu for Wifi, say. Surely (I think to myself) all these should be inbuilt system menus -- that is, reusable shared code -- that are consistent? Or is macOS just getting rewritten, ad hoc yet wholesale, half the UI custom not system?