For my work device I've disabled Liquid glass completely. The accessibility options to reduce transparency and increase contrast improve the readability of the system a lot.
Booting a 15 year old Mac a while ago had me surprised how clean the interface actually is. The Dock/Desktop look a lot better in the old versions, and the age is mostly showing in apps like Finder which do look a bit dated.
I really hope someone at Apple is going to make the call to drastically reduce the Liquid Glass design and start complying with their own UX guidelines again.
I agree. It’s a neat idea and I’d be interested in seeing the details. A downloadable tarball is a lot better than nothing, but it still makes more work to evaluate a random project than I’m inclined to perform. It makes me assume the commit history is ugly in some way (being charitable and assuming the code itself isn’t). Hearing that it’s developed within a monorepo of unrelated projects and experiments isn’t inspiring either. Anyway, perhaps someone else will download the source and report back.
Edit: To be clear, I’m not saying any of those things are true, just that those are the first thoughts I have when someone says their source is open but makes it difficult to view. In this age in which it’s so trivial and commonplace to make source easily viewable.
In my experience they've always been this way. Real engineers lose to idiots that can knock out a nice Wordpress website. Now the way real engineers lose to idiots that can vibe out a nice UI.
Not saying that you are wrong, necessarily. But I think it's still a pretty broad presumption.
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