Re: My god, it is so pleasant with the animations disabled on Sierra.
Re: My god, it is so pleasant with the animations disabled on Sierra.
- Subject: Re: My god, it is so pleasant with the animations disabled on Sierra.
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:27:11 -0500
On Oct 30, 2016, at 2:30 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:56 PM, Rich Siegel <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, October 27, 2016, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Where's the setting to control that? I couldn't find it in either
>>> Xcode's prefs or System Preferences.
>>
>> System Preferences => Accessibility => Display => "Reduce Motion"
>>
>> I did find that while Xcode was markedly improved with this turned off, and there were visible changes in some applications (window zooming and full screen transitions, in particular), things like the Finder still animate quite a bit.
>
> Anything that’s moving excessively when that setting is enabled is a bug.
>
> As of Sierra, even third party apps can now pay attention to the “reduce motion” and “should invert colors” settings. See the NSWorkspaceAccessibilityDisplay category in <AppKit/NSAccessibility.h>. (Support for “should differentiate without color and should increase contrast,” aka “draw button outlines,” was introduced in Yosemite.)
>
> -- Chris
Great. Now, they need to simply STOP sliding the content to the left when we click in a text entry field, then sliding it back to the center after we finish entering it. This is completely useless visual nonsense and utterly counterproductive. Entering text in Safari's Location field?? What useful purpose that helps the user does this insipid, "click, slide all text to the left, then look at where the text is, then see it is on the left of your the text field on your large screen, then start entering the text, then press enter and watch it slide again, see that it is in the middle of that wide text field on your large screen, then check again and see that you have to press enter AGAIN to have Safari actually go to the thing you just entered", feature serve?
The people who came up with this and the people who think it serves some useful purpose and is a GOOD user experience should be shot.
The same thing with the damn "content within an NSOutineView must slide up and slide down when shown of hidden". The people who thought that was a good idea need to die in a fire.
And when I finish scrolling a page on the Mac and the end is reached, JUST STOP THE DAMN SCROLLING. Slow it down right near the end if you have to. Bouncing a view at the end of a scroll is counterproductive and useless. It actually makes you wait until the bouncing stops and you can look at the screen again.
See, some people don't see why this is bad is one point, but forcing this ability on users without allowing them to turn it off is crap.
Even though it took about 3 years of my griping, the Xcode team reached out and told me how to report this so that part of it could be addressed in Xcode.
And it was.
This improves the user experience by (using the slogan of one of the sound manager betas from pre OS X, Barking Pumpkin circa 1990) simply making it "suck less".
This is great.
Now, where the hell do we have to go to report this in the Mac OS so that we can get this garbage turned off, or at least get a switch so that we can do it??
Inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks much.
NSOutlineViews need to stop animating their roll out.
And that "flying cockroach" in Safari whenever you download a file needs to be nuked from orbit. Some people never lived in Texas where cockroaches are 2 inches long or in Florida where there are 2-3 inch palmetto bugs. The flying Safari download graphic invokes a shuddering FEAR OF DEATH that comes whenever you spot a football sized cockroach running across the floor. Every time I download a file in Safari, it's as pleasing as spotting a cockroach running across my screen. Yet you can't turn it off. Apple must be getting all their UX geniuses from crack houses to add a feature like that #1 and to keep it in #2.
Alex Zavatone
Thank something I am still able to use Snow Leopard on my 17" MBP, where the UI is simply pleasant.
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