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macOS 10.14 Mojave: All The Little Things

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I love the revamped App Store. That crap was in dire need of some love.

And surprisingly delighted by news app. It’s like apple’s flipboard The way it handles videos like native video playing and pre-loading, instead of streaming is great too
 
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The text cursor now has higher contrast. Most likely in preparation for dark mode.

High Sierra:
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Mojave:
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installed PB2 on my late 2012 mac mini yesterday, all went fine... apart from i cant open Finder (keep getting an error that Finder cannot be opened), also the "Macintosh HD" icon is not showing on the desktop

any ideas as to a fix?

Thanks
 
ad931 said:
installed PB2 on my late 2012 mac mini yesterday, all went fine... apart from i cant open Finder (keep getting an error that Finder cannot be opened), also the "Macintosh HD" icon is not showing on the desktop

any ideas as to a fix?

Thanks
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With those serious problems, I would restore to a backup.
 
Beta 4 changes found:
- new Dynamic wallpaper called "Solar gradients" (not a photo, just a gradient of two colors)
- iTunes seems to have smoother window resizing (on m3 MacBook 2015) EDIT: when scrolled all the way up
- new Screen Print (idk what the english word is) app (or icon?) in Launch Pad (in the "Other" map)

Still to check:
- blurriness of text in scanned PDF documents on non-retina screens

Not fixed:
- poor performance of Twitch in Safari
- white screen while loading a new website, even though Dark Mode is on
 
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Darker menu selection colors (Mojave beta 4 on the left, High Sierra on the right):
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New Solar gradients dynamic wallpaper. The preview on the left now slowly fades from one image to another.
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Dynamic Desktop now behaves the same with either the light or dark UI, and the separate options to force either the light or dark versions of the background are now functional. Much better.
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redheeler said:
The options are grayed-out right now regardless of the UI theme, but it looks like this means we'll eventually be able to use the full dynamic wallpaper with the UI dark mode enabled, and not just the dark / night version. Also, the preview on the left cycles through the different images now.
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DP4 looks like you got what you predicted. In Dark Mode, now selecting Dynamic gives you the daytime images (during the day of course). Dark (Still) and Light (Still) are now available, and do as you might expect.
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redheeler said:
Darker menu selection colors (Mojave beta 4 on the left, High Sierra on the right):
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New Solar gradients dynamic wallpaper. The preview on the left now slowly fades from one image to another.
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Dynamic Desktop now behaves the same with either the light or dark UI, and the separate options to force either the light or dark versions of the background are now functional. Much better.
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Of course, personal opinion comes into it... but I think Light (Still) is quite dark really ;-) Plus I think it looks nicer used in Dark Mode!!
[doublepost=1531780350][/doublepost]DP4 fixes the issue I was seeing with System Preferences --> General --> [x] Use font smoothing when available... which was kind of 'bolding' the text in Mail and Notes.
 
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There're no dividers in Safari using the light appearance.
What's more, after quitting a full-screen video, Safari looks as it is in an inactive state..
 
nortonandreev said:
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There're no dividers in Safari using the light appearance.
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The dividers are still there, but very faint when the window is active, and still look as expected in the dark mode. Could be a bug.
What's more, after quitting a full-screen video, Safari looks as it is in an inactive state..
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This is a bug I experienced in beta 3 as well.
 
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redheeler said:
The dividers are still there, but very faint when the window is active, and still look as expected in the dark mode. Could be a bug.

This is a bug I experienced in beta 3 as well.
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Yes. The bug is there since beta 3. When it comes to the dividers, I think they were more visible in the previous beta versions.
 
In dark mode, Safari's Private Browsing accent is now even darker (true dark mode) instead of light.
 
KRBM said:
Beta 4 changes found:
- new Dynamic wallpaper called "Solar gradients" (not a photo, just a gradient of two colors)
- iTunes seems to have smoother window resizing (on m3 MacBook 2015) EDIT: when scrolled all the way up
- new Screen Print (idk what the english word is) app (or icon?) in Launch Pad (in the "Other" map)

Still to check:
- blurriness of text in scanned PDF documents on non-retina screens

Not fixed:
- poor performance of Twitch in Safari
- white screen while loading a new website, even though Dark Mode is on
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Does anyone have pics of this Screen Print app?
 
Another thing which I've noticed - when I split screen two Preview windows, the left one is slightly larger than the right one. I don't remember having such issue with High Sierra. Is it like this on purpose or it's a bug?
And I think they've removed the translation animation between light and dark which was present in beta 3.
 
Safari
  • The privacy icon is blue (was grey in High Sierra).
Mail
  • The "move to" button changed in beta 4. Now it takes up way too much space.
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  • There's a new button to view emails on a light background in dark mode. The button doesn't have an icon yet, though, and html emails aren't affected.
iTunes
  • You can now drag the window from the navigation bar (where the back/forward buttons, Library, Store, etc. are).
Other
  • The split view grabber is no longer blinding white. Now it's a muted grey that gets brighter when the cursor hovers over.
  • Dark mode has darker shadows.
  • No more "mess up" option on desktop. :'C

I didn't see anyone point out yet, but radio buttons, checkboxes, and dropdown menus no longer animate in Mojave. I really hope it's just a bug, otherwise I'll miss it. :/
 
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koifish22 said:
Safari
  • The privacy icon is blue (was grey in High Sierra).
Mail
  • The "move to" button changed in beta 4. Now it takes up way too much space.
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  • There's a new button to view emails on a light background in dark mode. The button doesn't have an icon yet, though, and html emails aren't affected.
iTunes
  • You can now drag the window from the navigation bar (where the back/forward buttons, Library, Store, etc. are).
Other
  • The split view grabber is no longer blinding white. Now it's a muted grey that gets brighter when the cursor hovers over.
  • Dark mode has darker shadows.
  • No more "mess up" option on desktop. :'C

I didn't see anyone point out yet, but radio buttons, checkboxes, and dropdown menus no longer animate in Mojave. I really hope it's just a bug, otherwise I'll miss it. :/
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What are radio buttons?
 
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