you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 50 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Can the glass theme go away now?

  • source
  • hideshow 17 child comments
  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago* (10 children)

    I like it ):

    It is way prettier than the standard flat icon theme.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Hilarious that you got downvoted into the negative for daring to voice a dissenting opinion. Truly, Lemmy is a child of Reddit.

    Edit: Back above zero! I take it back, maybe I spoke too soon?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I've only used it in passing when somebody's handed me their phone to put my number in or something but I think the big objection is not what it looks like but it's usability or lack thereof.

    Why would I want my user interface to be transparent, isn't the whole point that I need to be able to see the interface surely I want it to stand out from the background.

    The other complaint is that the analogy doesn't really work, glass isn't a liquid substance, so why does it make sense for the sliding toggle to morph?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    The transparent theme is just one of several settings for it, and that it idiotic, but the normal mode when it adds a bit of gloss and texture to the icons is great

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Literally not a single lick of usability improved from glass theme. Lots of elements worse. I support a handful of relatives and none of them like the change and still find the theme confusing.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I do kind of wish that there was a way to bring back the old squishy gel 3D icons, though.

    The current thing is a bit of an awkward cross between them, and the flat colours that seem to be basically everywhere now.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    You mean wannabe Windows 7 Aero? I sure hope so, one of the best things about it is that you can turn it off

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    You mean you can turn Windows 7 Aero off? I haven't found a way to turn glass off on MacOS. There's settings that seem like they would turn it off, but they don't.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    You can turn glass off in macOS. On my MacBook running the latest 26.4.1 it's in the System Settings under Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce transparency.

    Sadly, there are still a few apps that don't respect Accessibility settings, like Tidal, but it should apply to everything that's part of macOS.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, that's what I did. The very OS doesn't respect it. Not for nothing did they call it "reduce" and not "eliminate". It looks like shit. I have refused upgrading my other Mac to the latest OS version due to this.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's weird, it completely kills it for me... I'll have a look later to see if I ticked any other boxes.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Oh shit, I take that back, either they added that toggle after the initial release or I failed to find it at the time. I had it off, turned it on and I have a reasonable UI again! 🙏

  • source
  • parent