Give him a few years. Once his retinas are all burned in from staring at a 2-D cartoon for a few years he'll feel as I did when iOS 7 and Yosemite released. It happened earlier for me as I remember the flat UI design of the 80s, and got the visual degradation that came with it as well.
i didn't say that, did i. i said i preferred the top picture, and explained why. just a subjective comparison, ie an opinion.
This has to be the most vapid theory yet.
I'm sure it's not the only reason, but it definitely lowers the barriers to entry for the kiddies just getting out of college.
Ugly? Not exactly, though I do agree the different shaped, irregular icons of Yosemite-Catalina look better somehow.40 pages in of arguing. I'm here to bring the unity:
We can all agree the move to square icons on mac is ugly, functionally regressive, and unnecessary, right?
Simply providing the same old fresh food that worked/tasted super well is not enough. Shake ‘er all up!
wait, this is a mac forum. did you mean to post on a restaurant forum? 🤔 anyway, not sure i see how this relates to a GUI, but either way... progress should not be feared...I hope you took yourself out to dinner to celebrate your victory! Assuming restaurants are open in your location, I hope the floor, chairs, table, plates, walls, ceiling, pictures on the wall, menu, napkins were all a nice pleasing white. Hopefully the coke or pepsi was free of any caramel coloring, and hopefully if you ordered salmon it was free of the added pink coloring. Nobody should need colorized differentiation anymore for those products. Hopefully the steak, salad, and/or pasta was intentionally redesigned/bleached white to support the overall theme. It’s time steak & pasta stopped looking that way, it’s time for some new thinking, and it sure would make for great/interesting marketing material for the restaurant! Hopefully they also simplified the table presentation so as to not unnecessarily distract the diners, and provided only a spork. Out with the old, even if it worked rather well, because it’s old.
If you don't understand this analogy then you have a problem. In a case you're not trolling though. You must be trolling please.
the analogy is, for me, ridiculous. but just my opinion! like everything else on this thread...
Me to! The menu bar spacing is terrible. I really think this was done for a future "touch" iMac. I use a program called Bartender 4 to fix the spacing with the menu bar icons. I'm still stuck with the spacing for app menus.
But. Didn’t all the fresh, new appearance items make it worth the sacrifice and change?
Lies. This one is high-level, and it reminds me of the good old days of discussion forums, back in the mid-00's, when these types of things were fairly common. Back when the internet was still wild, creative, and fun. In fact, Apple was pretty cool back then I think.
Really? I can't say I notice the slightest difference. The icons largely carry over their iconography and are in the same places as before. Mojave -> Catalina was a bigger 'thing' in this regard with iTunes being dismembered.
Looks promising. I wonder to what extent these themes can change the graphical appearance in areas other than icons. The icons in Big Sur are pretty bad, but so are the radio buttons, check boxes, nav arrows, headers, title bars, and general colors.
The IAP - comment on IconChamp's landing page I hope is nothing more than a way to say that it's probably a trial version that allows 7 days access. Similar to cDock for instance.
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The icons looks stunning. And the Dock too. Very well done. Are these folder icons in 1024px by any chance?
You can only buy Mountain Lion