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Man that conversation history navigation for the new Siri app looks super unuseable ... how the hell am I supposed to actually find the conversation I want with

Man that conversation history navigation for the new Siri app looks super unuseable ... how the hell am I supposed to actually find the conversation I want with the super-dynamic non-ordered 2-column offset-row view thing ...? It looks hard to use ... Also the 'floating semi-window but not a window' thing when using contextual siri in the context of some other app ... sure looks like it won't work with cmd-tab navigation ... I really hope is not the case ...

praash 4mo ago
I laughed on the groundbreaking emphasis that you can move and resize the chat window because it's a Mac. You're up to something, maybe they really have a broken pseudo-window with basic UI interaction hacked on top.
- interestpiqued 4mo ago
  I think they were just pointing out the difference between that and iOS there
- isametry 4mo ago
  The “window” also doesn’t belong to an app! His menu bar continued to show Finder as the active app, not Siri. Which means, if shipped like this, the Siri dialog will be a poor excuse for a window with: - no Cmd+Tab, no Cmd+` - no minimize?? - generally no presence in the Dock whatsoever - no keyboard shortcuts beyond basic text editing ones - no smart window resize - … So in other words, no Justin, that’s not a window. That’s a resizable Spotlight pop-up with an “X” button.
  - Coeur 4mo ago
    My guess is that it's deliberate - that Siri window hovers over all apps so that you remain in your current context, and can add files/images/texts from any app to the Siri conversation. There might also be a Siri app on the Mac that was not yet shown.
    - isametry 4mo ago
      You're probably right, just add it to the collection of "not-quite-window floating thingies", accompanied by Quick Notes, Stickies, Special Character Picker, Color Picker, Font Picker… Sigh, I wish we could stop re-inventing what was already solved 25 years ago.
      - wpm 4mo ago
        I just want to stop having bullshit added to my context menus :(

praash 4mo ago

I laughed on the groundbreaking emphasis that you can move and resize the chat window because it's a Mac. You're up to something, maybe they really have a broken pseudo-window with basic UI interaction hacked on top.

interestpiqued 4mo ago
I think they were just pointing out the difference between that and iOS there
isametry 4mo ago
The “window” also doesn’t belong to an app! His menu bar continued to show Finder as the active app, not Siri. Which means, if shipped like this, the Siri dialog will be a poor excuse for a window with: - no Cmd+Tab, no Cmd+` - no minimize?? - generally no presence in the Dock whatsoever - no keyboard shortcuts beyond basic text editing ones - no smart window resize - … So in other words, no Justin, that’s not a window. That’s a resizable Spotlight pop-up with an “X” button.
- Coeur 4mo ago
  My guess is that it's deliberate - that Siri window hovers over all apps so that you remain in your current context, and can add files/images/texts from any app to the Siri conversation. There might also be a Siri app on the Mac that was not yet shown.
  - isametry 4mo ago
    You're probably right, just add it to the collection of "not-quite-window floating thingies", accompanied by Quick Notes, Stickies, Special Character Picker, Color Picker, Font Picker… Sigh, I wish we could stop re-inventing what was already solved 25 years ago.
    - wpm 4mo ago
      I just want to stop having bullshit added to my context menus :(