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I suppose Linux users are used to apps each having their own UI quirks to a certain extent, but as a Mac user, Electron apps stick out like a sore thumb and mos
by Cyberdog 9y ago
I suppose Linux users are used to apps each having their own UI quirks to a certain extent, but as a Mac user, Electron apps stick out like a sore thumb and most certainly don't "work like anything else."
Taking your "used well" example of VS Code as an example, any Mac user trying to seriously use it for more than a minute will find plenty of problems. The scroll bars are thicker and more boxy and do not auto-hide; the cursor appearance is different (the line is too thick and fades in and out instead of just blinking); the page-up and page-down behavior is different (the cursor moves rather than just staying in place; infuriating!); what gets selected when you double- or triple-click on bits of code is different. Some people can get over this sort of stuff and use it anyway. I, personally, cannot.
- mmanfrin 9y agoBeen using VS Code on a mac for over a year now and literally nothing you mentioned is true for me with the exception of the scroll bar being thicker than the OS default, but it does autohide.
- Cyberdog 9y agoIt has been a couple months since the last time I tried it, so I gave it a download to see if my complaints have been fixed. It looks like the only one that has (or, more likely, I misremembered) is the fading cursor - but it's still too thick, it still moves when doing pgup/pgdn, selection on clicking still behaves differently, and the scroll bar is still most definitely visible. Also, there's that weird page-high gap when scrolling to the end of a file - I had forgotten about that one. I know VS Code is highly customizable; is it possible you installed some customizations to make it behave more Mac-like?
- nkkollaw 9y agoI was on a Mac until a month ago and I never had any of the issues you're having. Some of the behavior you mention is also by design. P.S.: what's a good editor for the Mac in your opinion, then? Sublime Text is good and native, but the file explorer shows folders first instead of folder content mixed like everywhere else on macOS--and that's _actually_ infuriating.
- Cyberdog 9y ago> I was on a Mac until a month ago and I never had any of the issues you're having. You mean these things weren't happening, or they were but they didn't bug you? :P > what's a good editor for the Mac in your opinion, then? I use Coda 2. It does too much with its built-in terminal and MySQL client and Git client and FTP client and manuals, but it's mostly possible to just use it as a code editor and ignore the rest. (The one thing that it doesn't have built in that I wish it did is a GDB debugger.) It was pretty crashy right after High Sierra was released, but the developers eventually ironed those out.
- nkkollaw 9y agoJesus, Coda!? So you're using an outdated editor because you don't like VS Code's scrollbars (which can be themed, btw)? It's a dead product.