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I didn't understand the importance and came to this thread to learn. Please don't assume a lack of prior knowledge reflects an ongoing lack of curiosity.

jaywalk 5y ago
Learning is perfectly fine. But there are people here who have it explicitly explained to them, and continue on with the "so what? It's just an orange dot" line of thinking.
- CoastalCoder 5y ago
  I would hope (guess?) that Apple uses other sources of information when trying to cater to the creative professionals. (I'm assuming Apple still makes an effort for this segment, but I really have no idea how they do things these days.)
- AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
  Suggesting the explanation provided is insufficiently clear, no?
  - jaywalk 5y ago
    Looking through the comments, I can't imagine how else it could possibly be explained or clarified further. For this use case, it is assumed that the software producing the visuals has full control over the output. An orange dot that cannot be removed means that the software does not have full control over the output, which is unacceptable. It's that simple.
    - nightpool 5y ago
      From a sibling thread: EDIT: As far as I know, the best long-term answer here is for apps that present visuals full screen to "capture" the external display for exclusive use using an API (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/14562...), but that's not super common right now. Sounds like it's totally possible for the software to have full control over the output if it wants to, this only affects software that runs in a "standard" fullscreen mode without explicitly taking full control over the output.
      - breakfastduck 5y ago
        Hence making every existing live visual software available on the mac redundant, unless the update and make this change. It's not a complicated situation to grasp and it is seriously significant.
      - ineedasername 5y ago
        Sounds like it's totally possible for the software to have full control Yes, so you can go to the software vendor's "Ideas" or "Suggestions" page and ask for this, and post in forums asking people to upvote it, and hope the devs will do it. Not a great workaround. And sure, someone developed a script to get rid of this but no one is all that happy when Windows does something user-unfriendly that only a regedit hack will get rid of either.
    - gjs278 5y ago
- EugeneOZ 5y ago
  It is not just an orange dot for me. It's a very important orange dot and I'm very thankful for this dot.

jaywalk 5y ago

Learning is perfectly fine. But there are people here who have it explicitly explained to them, and continue on with the "so what? It's just an orange dot" line of thinking.

CoastalCoder 5y ago
I would hope (guess?) that Apple uses other sources of information when trying to cater to the creative professionals. (I'm assuming Apple still makes an effort for this segment, but I really have no idea how they do things these days.)
AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Suggesting the explanation provided is insufficiently clear, no?
- jaywalk 5y ago
  Looking through the comments, I can't imagine how else it could possibly be explained or clarified further. For this use case, it is assumed that the software producing the visuals has full control over the output. An orange dot that cannot be removed means that the software does not have full control over the output, which is unacceptable. It's that simple.
  - nightpool 5y ago
    From a sibling thread: EDIT: As far as I know, the best long-term answer here is for apps that present visuals full screen to "capture" the external display for exclusive use using an API (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/14562...), but that's not super common right now. Sounds like it's totally possible for the software to have full control over the output if it wants to, this only affects software that runs in a "standard" fullscreen mode without explicitly taking full control over the output.
    - breakfastduck 5y ago
      Hence making every existing live visual software available on the mac redundant, unless the update and make this change. It's not a complicated situation to grasp and it is seriously significant.
    - ineedasername 5y ago
      Sounds like it's totally possible for the software to have full control Yes, so you can go to the software vendor's "Ideas" or "Suggestions" page and ask for this, and post in forums asking people to upvote it, and hope the devs will do it. Not a great workaround. And sure, someone developed a script to get rid of this but no one is all that happy when Windows does something user-unfriendly that only a regedit hack will get rid of either.
  - gjs278 5y ago
EugeneOZ 5y ago
It is not just an orange dot for me. It's a very important orange dot and I'm very thankful for this dot.