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The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog

The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-developers-fix-for-macos-26-s-corners-a28844a0974d https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fill calls here: https://github.com/makalin/CornerFix/blob/main/Sources/CornerCapsView.swift https://github.com/makalin/CornerFix/blob/main/Sources/Corne...

frizlab 10mo ago
I still have no idea what this does. What on earth are the desktop rounded corners?
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- jaffa2 10mo ago
  Macs have rounded corners on the desktop. I.e 4 corners. It looked awesome in the CRT days because of the shape of them. These days on flat lcd screens the geometry is so good that they aren’t required to provide the same function as in CRT days but some people still like the look. I do, but i dont run extra software if i can help it especially for an aesthetic change. I used a tool like this is the past but there were incompatibility’s.
  - sho_hn 10mo ago
    I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?
    - brycewray 10mo ago
      > I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens? Running an Apple Studio Display here, and no rounded corners at any edges. So, just for non-Apple monitors?
      - duskwuff 10mo ago
        Not the case with a third-party display either.
      - ksidisnidjsdj 10mo ago
        Not even that. I have both Apple and non-Apple monitors, and my Mac only rounds the top edges on the MacBook’s screen, as intended. Not sure what this tool’s function is supposed to be, given that the rounded corners only appear on screens that are actually rounded. Why would you want to straighten that out on a physically-rounded screen?
        frizlab 10mo ago
        It’s more than that, the screen is rounded at the hardware level, there are no pixels to show anything here. What the OP software is supposed to “fix” CANNOT be fixed!
        ksidisnidjsdj 10mo ago
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      - Mister_Snuggles 10mo ago
        Running two Lenovo ThinkVision displays off of my work MacBook Pro. On the MBP built-in display, the upper-left and upper-right corners are rounded. I believe this is due to the shape of the display. The bottom corners are not rounded. On the external displays, the corners are all square.
    - carlosjobim 10mo ago
- Etheryte 10mo ago
  Modern MacBooks models have rounded corners at the top right and top left corners of the screen, see [0]. The bottom corners don't do this and external displays don't do this. This is a stylistic choice to match the curvature of the laptop's edge. If you move your mouse along that corner it doesn't disappear behind the curve, it follows the curve. [0] https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-air/x/images/overview/mac-plus-iphone/mac_iphone__n2863l0ne0q6_large_2x.jpg https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-air/x/images/overview/mac-pl...
  - frizlab 10mo ago
    I really think* the rounded corners on top-left and top-right of the MacBook Pros are hardware. There is no software in the world that can “fix” that… * Try to move space on such a device, the non-rounded desktop appears…
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davebranton 10mo ago
The linked article on medium was also written by AI, which immediately disqualifies it from being interesting or useful. "And the worst part? Apple didn’t provide a switch to turn it off." Now see, this is AI. A normal human being would write, "Apple didn't even provide any way to switch off this non-feature" - for example. AI always, for reasons that are likely neither interesting nor especially illuminating, writes like this. Unnecessary and stupid stylistic choices everywhere. Look, if you cannot be bothered to write something, why on God's Good Earth would anyone bother to read it?
- locao 10mo ago
  I'm not saying you're wrong about this article being AI-written, but I know people who write like this, and I hate it.
  - JoshTriplett 10mo ago
    Exactly. AI wrote this way because humans wrote this way. Just as humans used em-dashes long before AI was a thing.
- Finnucane 10mo ago
  If AI does this, it's because it's ingested the last 25 years of bad internet headlines. Written allegedly by humans.
- teekert 10mo ago
  And to be honest? It’s really annoying indeed.
  - throw5t432s3r 10mo ago
    I like it. A lot of times I just skim, so sentences like this let me know when to pay more attention to some point the author is trying to make.
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mvdtnz 10mo ago
> There’s also a consistency problem. If you use multiple monitors or virtual machines, the mismatch between macOS’s new roundness and other systems’ sharper corners creates visual friction. Once you notice it, you can’t unsee it. I guess it's a good thing I never noticed it then? Of all the very real problems with Tahoe this one would never have even registered with me.
jrmg 10mo ago
And the screenshot in the blog post is of a window with rounded corners!

frizlab 10mo ago

I still have no idea what this does. What on earth are the desktop rounded corners?

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jaffa2 10mo ago
Macs have rounded corners on the desktop. I.e 4 corners. It looked awesome in the CRT days because of the shape of them. These days on flat lcd screens the geometry is so good that they aren’t required to provide the same function as in CRT days but some people still like the look. I do, but i dont run extra software if i can help it especially for an aesthetic change. I used a tool like this is the past but there were incompatibility’s.
- sho_hn 10mo ago
  I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?
  - brycewray 10mo ago
    > I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens? Running an Apple Studio Display here, and no rounded corners at any edges. So, just for non-Apple monitors?
    - duskwuff 10mo ago
      Not the case with a third-party display either.
    - ksidisnidjsdj 10mo ago
      Not even that. I have both Apple and non-Apple monitors, and my Mac only rounds the top edges on the MacBook’s screen, as intended. Not sure what this tool’s function is supposed to be, given that the rounded corners only appear on screens that are actually rounded. Why would you want to straighten that out on a physically-rounded screen?
      - frizlab 10mo ago
        It’s more than that, the screen is rounded at the hardware level, there are no pixels to show anything here. What the OP software is supposed to “fix” CANNOT be fixed!
        ksidisnidjsdj 10mo ago
        [dead]
    - Mister_Snuggles 10mo ago
      Running two Lenovo ThinkVision displays off of my work MacBook Pro. On the MBP built-in display, the upper-left and upper-right corners are rounded. I believe this is due to the shape of the display. The bottom corners are not rounded. On the external displays, the corners are all square.
  - carlosjobim 10mo ago
Etheryte 10mo ago
Modern MacBooks models have rounded corners at the top right and top left corners of the screen, see [0]. The bottom corners don't do this and external displays don't do this. This is a stylistic choice to match the curvature of the laptop's edge. If you move your mouse along that corner it doesn't disappear behind the curve, it follows the curve. [0] https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-air/x/images/overview/mac-plus-iphone/mac_iphone__n2863l0ne0q6_large_2x.jpg https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-air/x/images/overview/mac-pl...
- frizlab 10mo ago
  I really think* the rounded corners on top-left and top-right of the MacBook Pros are hardware. There is no software in the world that can “fix” that… * Try to move space on such a device, the non-rounded desktop appears…
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davebranton 10mo ago

The linked article on medium was also written by AI, which immediately disqualifies it from being interesting or useful. "And the worst part? Apple didn’t provide a switch to turn it off." Now see, this is AI. A normal human being would write, "Apple didn't even provide any way to switch off this non-feature" - for example. AI always, for reasons that are likely neither interesting nor especially illuminating, writes like this. Unnecessary and stupid stylistic choices everywhere. Look, if you cannot be bothered to write something, why on God's Good Earth would anyone bother to read it?

locao 10mo ago
I'm not saying you're wrong about this article being AI-written, but I know people who write like this, and I hate it.
- JoshTriplett 10mo ago
  Exactly. AI wrote this way because humans wrote this way. Just as humans used em-dashes long before AI was a thing.
Finnucane 10mo ago
If AI does this, it's because it's ingested the last 25 years of bad internet headlines. Written allegedly by humans.
teekert 10mo ago
And to be honest? It’s really annoying indeed.
- throw5t432s3r 10mo ago
  I like it. A lot of times I just skim, so sentences like this let me know when to pay more attention to some point the author is trying to make.
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mvdtnz 10mo ago

> There’s also a consistency problem. If you use multiple monitors or virtual machines, the mismatch between macOS’s new roundness and other systems’ sharper corners creates visual friction. Once you notice it, you can’t unsee it. I guess it's a good thing I never noticed it then? Of all the very real problems with Tahoe this one would never have even registered with me.

jrmg 10mo ago

And the screenshot in the blog post is of a window with rounded corners!