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I've not tried out Ventura myself yet, but from the footage I've seen, the new settings app seems like an upgrade to me. I've never really found my way around t

I've not tried out Ventura myself yet, but from the footage I've seen, the new settings app seems like an upgrade to me. I've never really found my way around the icon grid, none of the iterations since Leopard worked well for me (and I've probably used all of them), so good riddance, happy to see them they try something new. Those lists may break some people's muscle memory, but I'm way faster skimming through a list than finding things in a more or less arbitrary 2d layout. And besides, it's looks pretty similar to iOS, and if that's executed well, then I should be able to share muscle memory between iOS and macOS, like with Control Center (which is neat).

dmitriid 4y ago
The new settings forget that desktop OSes are desktop OSes and have a rich library of controls that have interaction modes distinct from touch. See this: https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1534261202167152649 https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1534261202167152649 Instead of distinct readable controls with clear interactions it's a sea of gray upon gray upon gray. It breaks Apple's own HIGs which says not to (over)use switches, and use checkboxes instead. The drop downs no longer look like they can be interacted with. Where you'd have settings that can easily fit on a single pane in multicolumn view, you now have lists upon lists upon lists that are entirely alien to the Mac OS https://twitter.com/oskargroth/status/1534133558817742848 https://twitter.com/oskargroth/status/1534133558817742848 Interface consistency is a bullshit goal: https://twitter.com/MarioGuzman/status/1534585939971801088 https://twitter.com/MarioGuzman/status/1534585939971801088