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Regarding High Sierra I’ve been telling myself that maybe Apple is is secretly busy with The Great Rewrite to migrate from Objective-C to Swift. Or maybe they a

Regarding High Sierra I’ve been telling myself that maybe Apple is is secretly busy with The Great Rewrite to migrate from Objective-C to Swift. Or maybe they are rewriting stuff to get it on the path to the one, unified OS. I really hope this is the reason because otherwise it is really, really sad. There is still a UI bug that I must file because seemingly no one but me deactivated LCD font smoothing and discovered that text is printed in bold if it contains non-ASCII characters. It’s infuriating that it is still not fixed as apparently no one has noticed since the release of High Sierra. I stopped reporting bugs because often it’s a duplicate and gets closed which is demotivating. But I can't know beforehand because their bug tracker is closed.

techdragon 9y ago
What’s worse than closed is that it doesn’t correlate your closed as duplicate bug, with the bug it is a duplicate of. If they correlated them so you could see the status of the “parent” bug, then it would be miles better. I might even start logging bugs again myself.
- gargravarr 9y ago
  The worst is Apple's closed bug tracker. You cannot see bugs reported by other users, and if yours gets closed as a duplicate, you cannot see the original report's progress or be notified when it's fixed. A colleague reported a number of Safari bugs that he was quickly locked out of as duplicates. He stopped bothering eventually. Held up our automated testing for weeks.
- niteshade 9y ago
  You can ask for the status of the parent bug, I've gotten answers before. For example, I filed a bug report for Continuity not supporting TouchID/FaceID, so that you could unlock macOS from your iDevice. It was closed as a duplicate, and when I asked for the parents' status, I was told it was it was closed as "Not to be Addressed".
gtm1260 9y ago
Wow, very sad, obscure bug lol. I think your right that nobody turned off font smoothing, although i really don't see any reason why you would.

techdragon 9y ago

What’s worse than closed is that it doesn’t correlate your closed as duplicate bug, with the bug it is a duplicate of. If they correlated them so you could see the status of the “parent” bug, then it would be miles better. I might even start logging bugs again myself.

gargravarr 9y ago
The worst is Apple's closed bug tracker. You cannot see bugs reported by other users, and if yours gets closed as a duplicate, you cannot see the original report's progress or be notified when it's fixed. A colleague reported a number of Safari bugs that he was quickly locked out of as duplicates. He stopped bothering eventually. Held up our automated testing for weeks.
niteshade 9y ago
You can ask for the status of the parent bug, I've gotten answers before. For example, I filed a bug report for Continuity not supporting TouchID/FaceID, so that you could unlock macOS from your iDevice. It was closed as a duplicate, and when I asked for the parents' status, I was told it was it was closed as "Not to be Addressed".

gtm1260 9y ago

Wow, very sad, obscure bug lol. I think your right that nobody turned off font smoothing, although i really don't see any reason why you would.