Editing Blog/2025-09-24/Feed Proliferation (section)

== MacOS Tahoe ==

Speaking of the doorway effect, the new Launchpad replacement in MacOS Tahoe gets rid of it. I forgot I asked MacOS to upgrade last night so I was greeted this morning by a completely new wallpaper. The new UI looks a lot like the Compiz-style UI I used to have back in the day on Ubuntu, sans workspaces-on-a-rotating-cube. One interesting thing was that they've replaced Launchpad on the all-fingers-in gesture with Spotlight opened to the Applications search. I'd heard of this somewhere and it bothered me because Spotlight is the slowest search tool I've ever used. But it's been pretty snappy.

The most annoying thing about the new way they do things is that the UI element renders with a slow animation (I don't mind these) but the text input doesn't accept text until after the text element has rendered. This is wrong! You should accept text as soon as the application has launched. What happens then is that the first few letters I type actually go nowhere. I get the beeps for when you're typing in a place you can't and then the next few letters show up. [[Jobs Would Never Stand For This]].