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Is it just me, or the dark theme on Mojave really sucks?
almost 5 years ago from Tiago Franco
Tiago Franco, almost 5 years ago
And my feeling is that Dark Mode is the only big change on Mojave. Sad for a major release.
Cristian Moisei, almost 5 years ago
+1, at least with my usage there's nothing else new.
Norm Sheeran, almost 5 years ago Stacks are nifty.
For people who have messy desktops yes, but they provide zero value for people who already have good folder structures in place.
Norm Sheeran, almost 5 years ago Good point.
Alex Hoffman, almost 5 years ago
Screenshots are amazing. Cmd+Option+5. You can do screen recordings and then immediately after trim the clip, also annotate right after you take a screenshot. LOVE it
Scott Liang, almost 5 years ago I love how the screenshots work now. You can take one with Cmd+Shift+4 then drag the little preview window directly into Sketch. No more messing around with redundant screenshot files on your desktop :)
This feature as been there at least since 2008... The only change is the CMD+SHIFT+5 feature, which is similar to CMD+SHIFT+4 but allows annotations.
Phil Rau, almost 5 years ago
He's talking about the new little preview window, not the keyboard shortcut. That part is new, and it is AMAZINGLY NICE.
Gotcha. A nice detail.
Tom C, almost 5 years ago
Since 2008 (or something) you could add CTRL to the key combination and there were no redundant screenshot files on your desktop :)
Account deleted almost 5 years ago Stacks are nice and right clicking your desktop to use your iphone as a scanner are pretty cool.
I agree, it's not great, and to make things worse, there is no easy way to keep a dark dock/menu bar. There is a way to do it but it's not perfect, it will have some inconsistencies such as dark dock icons or bezels around some apps.
While I see people praising Apple for how thorough Dark Mode is, I don't agree with that, not only is the mode itself not as polished as Light Mode (which had decades to evolve), but also every developer is doing something different and I think without more help and guidelines from Apple, it will take many years before designers and devs figure out what good dark interfaces should look like on the mac.