macOS 10.14 Mojave: All The Little Things

[afir93]

I have just noticed, when you customize the toolbar (Secondary click and customize) of Apples own apps (Like Mail, Safari and Finder), the icons in the toolbar jiggle.

I don't know when this was added, I just noticed today.

I believe it was added in one of the earliest betas, but yes it's definitely new to Mojave. Doesn't happen on High Sierra. I think it's a nice change and more in line with how the items wiggle in Launchpad or on the Touch Bar when you customize them. Glad Apple keeps adding/tweaking these little interface details.

 

[StellarVixen]

Sorry if this was asked before, but does iPhoto 9.6.1 still work?

 

[TimothyR734]

Yes it does

 

[StellarVixen]

Yes it does

Awesome, thank you.

 

[TimothyR734]

Awesome, thank you.

Your welcome

 

[StellarVixen]

Your welcome

Shame it doesn't have the dark mode, though. \

Now, I am not the huge fan of dark mode, but I do love GUI consistency. When everything else is dark, then iPhoto shall be too. Now, I know that you can set the background to be completely black, but sidebar and title bar are still light colored.

 

[afir93]

Shame it doesn't have the dark mode, though. \

Now, I am not the huge fan of dark mode, but I do love GUI consistency. When everything else is dark, then iPhoto shall be too. Now, I know that you can set the background to be completely black, but sidebar and title bar are still light colored.

Yeah, that's kind of the price we have to pay for getting a better and more refined dark mode that developers themselves have to add support for, instead of the system just inverting a bunch of standard UI elements and calling it a day similar to what Windows does. Apple's approach means that dark mode will be a lot more refined and detailed all across the board with developers being given the ability and incentive to make it look as great as possible (as opposed to slapping a standard fits-all black texture on all apps), but therefore we won't get dark mode in all apps that are not in active development anymore (or require paid upgrades or subscription models for newer versions).

On another note, it's pretty amazing that iPhoto is still working so great – Mojave cuts a lot of strings to older/outdated software so if iPhoto survived that, it'll probably survive for another couple of years aswell.

 

[nortonandreev]

- Connect posts which includes content from Apple Music display light text on light background in dark appearance.

Fixed in the latest beta.

 

[TimothyR734]

It would be nice if it supported dark mode but it is a aging app but still prefer it over iPhoto but maybe soon after Mojave comes out in Sept someone will make a app that darkens those older apps

 

[thingstoponder]

Yes it does

How do you get the applications on the desktop?

 

[TimothyR734]

How do you get the applications on the desktop?

do you have it installed

 

[TheralSadurns]

B

How do you get the applications on the desktop?

By opening the Finder. Navigating to the root level... and CMD+ALT dragging the Applications folder to the desktop (which creates an alias).

Altho. Me, personally... I think it doesn't belong there... but rather, say, in the Dock.

 

[steveaburns]

Option + Click on a stack opens (or closes) all stacks on the desktop.
Have to say that my favorite is to stack by tag; where tag is my project name - new files saved to desktop can easily be tagged, and show up nicely in my stacks. When the project is done, I just drag the stack (which drags all contained files) into a new folder and file it away.

 

[jarman92]

Anybody else noticing that FaceTime opens automatically on startup? It started with the first Mojave beta and I can't get rid of it. I've tried adding it to and deleting it from login items but it won't go away...any thoughts?

 

[afir93]

Anybody else noticing that FaceTime opens automatically on startup? It started with the first Mojave beta and I can't get rid of it. I've tried adding it to and deleting it from login items but it won't go away...any thoughts?

You could try checking the respective library folders for startup items, i.e. /Library/StartUpItems, /Library/LaunchDaemons and /Library/LaunchAgents and see if anything related is there. Though it's possible that it might not be launched as a regular startup item but due to some other trigger since it's a system app. Otherwise maybe try turning FaceTime off and on, or logging out and back into your iCloud account?

 

[StellarVixen]

Does the Mojave keep the possibility to make only the menu bar and dock dark as before, without turning everything dark?

Or is it "either dark, or not"?

 

[TimothyR734]

Does the Mojave keep the possibility to make only the menu bar and dock dark as before, without turning everything dark?


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Or is it "either dark, or not"?

This is dark mode in Mojave on my iMac 9,1 not everything turns dark mode especially 3rd party apps

 

[StellarVixen]

Thanks, I can see that. That is what I am talking about, most of the UI is dark.

Seems that the option to just keep menu bar and dock dark gone.

EDIT:

I found this little command line: defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

Can someone test does it work? Does it make only menu bar and dock dark?

 

[TimothyR734]

Thanks, I can see that. That is what I am talking about, most of the UI is dark.

Seems that the option to just keep menu bar and dock dark gone.

EDIT:

I found this little command line: defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

Can someone test does it work? Does it make only menu bar and dock dark?

Yes I tried that on a earlier beta of Mojave

 

[StellarVixen]

Sweet, thank you. I hope Apple isn't gonna break this anytime soon.

 

[AZhappyjack]

Does the Mojave keep the possibility to make only the menu bar and dock dark as before, without turning everything dark?


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Or is it "either dark, or not"?

The latter. There is no option for dark menu at and dock. You can choose between light and dark interface. Period.

 

[TimothyR734]

Sweet, thank you. I hope Apple isn't gonna break this anytime soon.

Fingers crossed for those who don't want full dark mode but I like it as I use shifty with my night shift so it turns dark mode on at night
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Sweet, thank you. I hope Apple isn't gonna break this anytime soon.

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes
This does show that it does work on the latest Mojave beta

 

[steveaburns]

Fingers crossed for those who don't want full dark mode but I like it as I use shifty with my night shift so it turns dark mode on at night
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defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes
This does show that it does work on the latest Mojave beta

I hope it won't break too... I really like the dark menu / dock / notification, some apps dark (E.g. Finder), and I a lot of the apps light, but some dark. So I'm setting Dark mode, then forcing some apps light with the following:

Mail:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

Notes:
defaults write com.apple.Notes NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

Safari:
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

Calendar:
defaults write com.apple.iCal NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

 

[cambookpro]

I hope it won't break too... I really like the dark menu / dock / notification, some apps dark (E.g. Finder), and I a lot of the apps light, but some dark. So I'm setting Dark mode, then forcing some apps light with the following:

Mail:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

Notes:
defaults write com.apple.Notes NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

Safari:
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

Calendar:
defaults write com.apple.iCal NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

This works for me with Notes, but Safari and Mail seem to remain dark even when this has been run. Even checked using defaults read, and it has set the boolean correctly, it's just not changing the interface. Any ideas?

 

[steveaburns]

This works for me with Notes, but Safari and Mail seem to remain dark even when this has been run. Even checked using defaults read, and it has set the boolean correctly, it's just not changing the interface. Any ideas?

You need to quit and restart mail and safari, not just close the windows -- could this be your problem?