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Apple’s MacOS Mojave Adds Dark Mode and Desktop Stacks at WWDC 2018

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Personally I’d be happy if it adds shortcuts for Split View.

macOS is the only major desktop environment where you have to take your hands off the home row to snap a window to the side of the screen.

Plus is would be nice if they could get rid of slow animation every time you make a window full screen.

BetterTouchTool lets you program keyboard commands to do stuff like this.

Though you are correct that it would be nice if this was built into the OS.

BetterTouchTool is great but it's a commercial add on you have to pay for.

This illustrates to me that Apple just doesn't get it.

My guess is they probably spent more time on the Split View animations knowing they could show it off in a keynote than they did considering how people who actually like keyboards as tool would use it.

It's 2018 and they still don't have a keyboard short cut to open the context menu so that you can get spelling suggestions without using the mouse.

All their guff about accessibility is just that, guff.

Hammerspoon can fix both these issues, really cannot recommend more.

Although you have to code it into your app, it is possible to greatly speed up the transition by implementing the full-screen delegate animation methods and just refusing to use the given transition time value (i.e. make it shorter). Then, at least your app snaps right into Full Screen.

I’ll throw in my favourite as well : Shiftit is the first extension I install on any new Mac I set up.

I have an Apple developer account, I want to update right now to Mojave. I don’t do MacOS apps development. Is it a good idea to run an OS beta or better wait for the official release this fall?

I'd wait until Beta 2 at the very earliest. Lots of new bugs are going to surface over the next few days.

Never a good idea to run an OS beta if you're not making money off it...

I also have a dev account, but, as a rule, wait until at least the first public beta, and usually the second. That's probably a few dev betas away at this point.

I've 2 Macs, I might just try on the one I am not really using to try out. It should be reversible anyway.

I wonder if Apple putting their weight behind Dark Mode will lead to more apps and websites properly including support for it. Windows 10 has supported Dark Mode for a long time, and I set Dark Mode on any websites that feature it such as Twitter and now Reddit, but overall, most things I do are still on irritatingly bright white rectangles.

I thought Windows 10 dark mode was only to the metro ui (or what ever it's called now). So things like Window Explorer (Finder on macOS) are still not dark themed.

They're working on Dark Mode support for File Explorer soon: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-finally-adding-dark...

More and more of Windows 10 is Modern UI-based with each passing release, so each release includes more and more dark mode support.

Here's a great Chome extension, by the way

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