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Give me proper theming support. Allow me to disable all animations, rounded corners, opacity, white space and whatever else I don't need. Imagine how snappy an

Give me proper theming support. Allow me to disable all animations, rounded corners, opacity, white space and whatever else I don't need. Imagine how snappy and productive it could be!

electric_mayhem 1y ago
There are settings under the accessibility heading that let you adjust transparency and some other things. They’ve also gotten less effective over time. And they don’t get rid of rounded corners currently. But it still does have a positive impact on the busyness of the os
busymom0 1y ago
What I really need them to give me is a way to disable the border around the Home Screen icons. They look ugly whenever a black or dark background is applied. Probably because glass itself doesn't look good in darkness.
JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> give me proper theming support This is sort of like walking into an art gallery and demanding they hang different art. Apple has always been visually opinionated. That’s fine. Not everything needs to be customisable. The problem is their aesthetic historically varied between daringly great and daringly fucked. Nothing about Liquid Glass, on the other hand, screams daring, thought or even vision. It’s just a random new effect, completely unjustified, whose only genuine utility for me has been making app icons less engaging.
- cardanome 1y ago
  No that is like my landlord telling me what kind of art I can hang in my own home. If I spend hours of my day using a device I should be able to theme it exactly to my taste. The customer is always right in matters of taste. You are supposed to serve your customers not the other way round. And don't give me oh that is not the apple way. I don't care. People don't buy apple for liquid glass or whatever but because they have arguably the best hardware so people put up with the software side of things.
  - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
    > that is like my landlord telling me what kind of art I can hang in my own home Fair enough, it's like the landlord telling you that you can't change the layout. > don't give me oh that is not the apple way. I don't care Fair enough again. Apple doesn't care about others' aesthetic preferences either, and that's worked well for Cupertino since the 1980s.
  - kcplate 1y ago
    > If I spend hours of my day using a device I should be able to theme it exactly to my taste. The customer is always right in matters of taste. You are supposed to serve your customers not the other way round. This attitude always cracks me up. Only with tech products and among techies do we hear these demands of infinite customization of the products and tools we use. Can you imagine any other vocation or industry making such demands of infinite customization of their tools and products that they use? I know I can’t. The real analogy here isn’t landlords and homes. It’s a carpenter demanding that Stanley ship moldable handles with their hammers so that it fits their hand one millimeter better giving them the ability to maybe hammer one extra nail a day.
    - hu3 1y ago
      What you call "demands of infinite customization" is a basic thing on Windows and Android since forever. Users can change the theme however they want.
      - GaryBluto 1y ago
        Windows isn't a mobile operating system, unless you're referring to Windows phone, and from what little knowledge I have of what it's like to use an Android device, you can install custom "launchers" but you cannot change the user interface too drastically.
      - kcplate 1y ago
        And they are available to use if that’s a requirement for the user. I don’t think that every OS needs to adopt every feature of every other OS that’s out there.
- mcswell 1y ago
  We're talking about a phone, not an art gallery.
GaryBluto 1y ago
I feel that Apple succeeds because it isn't customizable, although I do think a completely customizable phone operating system (that wouldn't be Linux or Android-based) could be successful with a niche crowd.
The_President 1y ago
Disable animations? How else would you know how old your phone is?

Give me proper theming support. Allow me to disable all animations, rounded corners, opacity, white space and whatever else I don't need. Imagine how snappy and productive it could be!

electric_mayhem 1y ago

There are settings under the accessibility heading that let you adjust transparency and some other things. They’ve also gotten less effective over time. And they don’t get rid of rounded corners currently. But it still does have a positive impact on the busyness of the os

busymom0 1y ago

What I really need them to give me is a way to disable the border around the Home Screen icons. They look ugly whenever a black or dark background is applied. Probably because glass itself doesn't look good in darkness.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> give me proper theming support This is sort of like walking into an art gallery and demanding they hang different art. Apple has always been visually opinionated. That’s fine. Not everything needs to be customisable. The problem is their aesthetic historically varied between daringly great and daringly fucked. Nothing about Liquid Glass, on the other hand, screams daring, thought or even vision. It’s just a random new effect, completely unjustified, whose only genuine utility for me has been making app icons less engaging.

cardanome 1y ago
No that is like my landlord telling me what kind of art I can hang in my own home. If I spend hours of my day using a device I should be able to theme it exactly to my taste. The customer is always right in matters of taste. You are supposed to serve your customers not the other way round. And don't give me oh that is not the apple way. I don't care. People don't buy apple for liquid glass or whatever but because they have arguably the best hardware so people put up with the software side of things.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > that is like my landlord telling me what kind of art I can hang in my own home Fair enough, it's like the landlord telling you that you can't change the layout. > don't give me oh that is not the apple way. I don't care Fair enough again. Apple doesn't care about others' aesthetic preferences either, and that's worked well for Cupertino since the 1980s.
- kcplate 1y ago
  > If I spend hours of my day using a device I should be able to theme it exactly to my taste. The customer is always right in matters of taste. You are supposed to serve your customers not the other way round. This attitude always cracks me up. Only with tech products and among techies do we hear these demands of infinite customization of the products and tools we use. Can you imagine any other vocation or industry making such demands of infinite customization of their tools and products that they use? I know I can’t. The real analogy here isn’t landlords and homes. It’s a carpenter demanding that Stanley ship moldable handles with their hammers so that it fits their hand one millimeter better giving them the ability to maybe hammer one extra nail a day.
  - hu3 1y ago
    What you call "demands of infinite customization" is a basic thing on Windows and Android since forever. Users can change the theme however they want.
    - GaryBluto 1y ago
      Windows isn't a mobile operating system, unless you're referring to Windows phone, and from what little knowledge I have of what it's like to use an Android device, you can install custom "launchers" but you cannot change the user interface too drastically.
    - kcplate 1y ago
      And they are available to use if that’s a requirement for the user. I don’t think that every OS needs to adopt every feature of every other OS that’s out there.
mcswell 1y ago
We're talking about a phone, not an art gallery.

GaryBluto 1y ago

I feel that Apple succeeds because it isn't customizable, although I do think a completely customizable phone operating system (that wouldn't be Linux or Android-based) could be successful with a niche crowd.

The_President 1y ago

Disable animations? How else would you know how old your phone is?