I agree, I can’t for the life of me understand why they reversed the brightness instead of making both the dock and menu bar darker.
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macOS 11: All the little things!
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I believe the GM will bring about a few more icon changes (as we've seen with Messages/FaceTime reduced shadows), noticed the App Store loading icon (online) is a reduced shadow version of the current Big Sur icon, as you can see below. Wonder when the GM will come.
If I am in a web page or doing something in a program it disappears and there is no way to use setting to put it back.
Beta 9 fixes one of the really annoying aspects of Catalyst apps thus far: duplicate text cursors.
Now if you have a Catalyst app (such as Messages.app) as the active window, and the cursor is on an input text field, the cursor correctly disappears after switching away from the app (for instance, bringing the Spotlight interface).
Now if you have a Catalyst app (such as Messages.app) as the active window, and the cursor is on an input text field, the cursor correctly disappears after switching away from the app (for instance, bringing the Spotlight interface).
-----That's been there since at least El Capitan, at least if you have the large version set to appear as an item in the keyboard menu extra when you have that enabled.
Meh. Looks a little better.
I always felt it was long overdue to rebrand Quicktime as something else. Every other macOS app has a fairly intuitive name, and if they were willing to kill the "iTunes" brand, then why not this?
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That's very true. QuickTime is a vestigial remnant from the classic Mac OS days, as well as are the Grapher and Script Editor utility applications. Maybe in the future, QuickTime will be rebranded as Apple Video Player, or something like that.
Also, iTunes hasn't been completely killed off yet. iTunes U still exists (or at least, will still exist until the end of 2021), and I believe iTunes still is being released for Windows.
Weird. I only noticed it because the emoji palette came up as default instead of character viewer when I selected from the menu, and I've never seen the palette other than in the inline version which you get with cmd-ctrl-space. In fact now, if you have switched to Character Viewer you now get THAT instead of the emoji picker palette which is definitely new behaviour.
The emoji palette and the Character Viewer used to be two separate entities.
-----It's supposed to remember which mode it was in for each way you can access it, I believe. The same behavior occurs for me on a machine I have that's stuck on El Cap after Apple stopped publishing OS updates for it.
Hmm. This makes it look like the menu bar changes to a darker color with dark mode, but everything I’ve seen thus far shows only the dock becomes dark and the translucent menu bar stays the same between modes. Has the appearance of the actual menu bar changed in beta 9?
edit: Nevermind. I didn’t notice the change in wallpaper between them which would change the color of the menu bar. I assume it’s the same as before.
Yeah, and Safari needs to be renamed to Apple Web Browser? 🤦♂️ Let the primitive and commonplace application names remain in Windows.
The new gradient to show the different wallpapers in the dynamic ones is very useful and looks good. The new wallpapers are beautiful as well. Did they remove any of the existing ones?
They removed the Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra, iMac Pro Marketing wallpaper, and the 2016 MacBook Pro Marketing Wallpapers from system preferences.
If anyone wants those wallpapers, I have a backup of them from Beta 9.
Thanks! Kind of wish they would keep default wallpapers for all past versions in modern high res but Apple doesn’t really do stuff like that.
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I’d love these!
I you have AirPods connected, the volume menubar icon changes to reflect that.
