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The History of Cover Flow
- pupppet 3y agoI miss those early days when Apple was announcing new features for OS X. Now, macOS gets iOS’s hand-me-downs.
- gymbeaux 3y agoOr things nobody asked for like Stage Manager
- phillco 3y agoFunnily enough (re GP), apparently Stage Manager was actually originally prototyped in the OS X days (2006). https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/stage-manager-was-a-thing-in-2006-os-x-beta.2347636/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/stage-manager-was-a-thi...
- wlesieutre 3y agoiPadOS’s hand-me-downs
- wlesieutre 3y agoI ought to mention, I really expected that Stage Manager on iPad would turn out to have been mirroring the VR headset's window management, but that doesn't seem to be the case
- CharlesW 3y agoFWIW, after using it for a few months I like it more than I thought I would. I decided to try it after my Average User sister said she liked it, and I wondered what I was missing. As context, I’ve used Mac OS since the late 80s and have permanently (to the degree possible) disabled the dock.
- bla3 3y agoOr the new Preferences.app.
- foooorsyth 3y agoWhy is it so slow? Opening proxy settings can take 5+ seconds
- meindnoch 3y agoSwiftUI
- tpmx 3y agoStage Manager is surprisingly great, IMO. Frustrating at times, but mostly great.
- coldtea 3y agoAs if anybody asked for Cover Flow, one of the most useless features in the history of OS X?
- basisword 3y agoIt was really useful for quickly scrolling through a folder of images. As it relates to music it wasn't very useful - but it was fun. Not everything has to be useful.
- bdavbdav 3y agoI don’t get it on the Mac (mind I also need to use 3rd party window management / snapping tools here), but it seems to work well now the iPad has really good extended display support.
- paradox460 3y agoOr features removed a decade ago are now back, but this time they're much more locked down (widgets)
- ProfessorLayton 3y agoI still miss the old dashboard view so badly. It was awesome having multiple calculators and sticky notes one button press away without cluttering my desktop. They really botched it by letting it rot and not integrating it with the App Store. The latest implementation with the desktop is... okay, but unnecessarily messy imo — I'm unclear why they can't do both kinds of views on macOS (On the desktop + full screen view like the classic dashboard), akin to a dedicated view on the left side of the Home Screen + Home Screen widgets on iOS.
- paradox460 3y agoI had a wonderful little widget that gave me the snow report for my local ski hill. Have yet to find anything that just worked that well. Current solution is a homemade telegram bot that messages me the report every morning. Also, fwiw, there were always ways to break a dashboard widget out of dashboard and onto the desktop. And dashboard's precursor, konfabulator, had that from the beginning
- wpm 3y ago>full screen view like the classic dashboard They'd be admitting they shouldn't have killed Dashboard if they did this.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoI miss Coverflow on the Mac. The "gallery view" is a poor substitute.
- paradox460 3y agoOne of many reasons to keep using Pathfinder. Has it built in still
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoI need to replace my 2012 Macbook Pro one of these days[0] and I'll look into a Pathfinder license when I do. [0] Still a superb machine but no one does battery replacements anymore due to Apple declaring it obsolete and I don't trust myself to do it.
- paradox460 3y agoSave a wee bit of money and get the SetApp license. Most of the stuff there is of varying quality, but between cleanshotx, pathfinder, tableplus, dash, and bartender, it pays for itself
- technosmurf 3y agoI thought a big reason for the removal of Cover Flow from iTunes was troubles with patent troll companies in 2008: https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-settles-coverflow-patent-infringement-fight/ https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-settles-coverflow-pat...
- webprofusion 3y agohttps://www.spazcosoft.com/blog-cover-flow.md.html https://www.spazcosoft.com/blog-cover-flow.md.html
- wayfinder 3y agoThe article says Apple won though?
- yklcs 3y agoIt’s a bit rough around the edges, but I implemented my own for the web in JS: https://yklcs.com/coverflow https://yklcs.com/coverflow Mine’s a bit different from the actual one as I had to reverse engineer the animation. It’s more complex to implement than I imagined, it’s hard to get the motions to feel “right”. I used a logistic function where the inflection point is at the middle of the screen to calculate the amount of translation/rotation. I’d love to see a breakdown of the actual animations used.
- ttepasse 3y agoThat's a very nice implementation, not even janky on my old Mac. Great. I recently found out that the web is in the process of getting Scroll-Driven-Animations, which enabled a CSS-only CoverFlow, among other things. Here is an example: https://scroll-driven-animations.style/demos/cover-flow/css/ https://scroll-driven-animations.style/demos/cover-flow/css/
- hnbear 3y agoSeeing Mezzanine then flipping through I thought somehow it’s reading my actual music library on my phone and was both impressed and worried at once. Good job.
- qingcharles 3y agoHah! I was like, "This guy has all the best albums of all time..."
- Rezhe 3y agoMade it in SwiftUI, without reflection: https://youtube.com/shorts/zHeoSsFO9RQ?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/zHeoSsFO9RQ?feature=share
- chriscjcj 3y agoI also miss the icons for drives showing up in the finder window sidebar. Now, all drives' icons are ignored and replaced by generic, OS-assigned icons. Rather than having a visual cue of what to click on, one must read the name. Seems trivial, but it sucks and I hate it. A couple projects tried to keep the sidebar icons alive using mySIMBL (1) and later MacForge (2) but they've sadly all been abandoned. (I think.) They never really worked all that well, requiring finder-rebooting and various shenanigans to get them to run (if memory serves.) (1) https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL (2) https://github.com/MacEnhance/MacForge https://github.com/MacEnhance/MacForge
- _fzslm 3y agoGive TotalFinder a go. Works on latest macOS on M1 chips. You do need to change the SIP policy to get it working, but you can fine tune it so that TotalFinder has the permissions it needs while preserving security elsewhere in the system. Other than that initial setup quirk, it’s been flawless for me and even enables some extra customisation capabilities.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoThe great flattening basically took away some of the best UI apple had.
- steve1977 3y agoFully agree. I miss the colorfulness and to a degree also the playfulness. I don’t want to lick it anymore.
- gdubs 3y agoThis was a really nice way of browsing someone's music at a house party. This was largely pre-streaming, and during those days a MacBook hooked up to a stereo was a common fixture at after-hours get togethers. Flipping through Cover Flow was like flipping through someone's records – you got a sense about a person by flipping through their music collection.
- bdavbdav 3y agoYeap. Source: my ~2014 MBA sat in a box in the garage with a dead top row of keys from a vodka coke spill of a friend.