Acorn 8.3 With Liquid Glass
Acorn 8.3 is out and the big new feature is that it supports Liquid Glass for folks who are running macOS Tahoe (which is over 50% of Acorn 8 users at this point!).
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But the UI was a ton of work! And I made it extra difficult on myself by making Liquid Glass optional.
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The second option is “Display images edge-to-edge”. This one works on all versions of macOS that Acorn 8.3 runs on. This is the fancy look where the toolbar floats above the content as if it was a delicate and beautifully manicured piece of glass. It also removes the bottom toolbar, so there’s maximal room for your pixels to shine.
I also reworked the tool palette so that it no longer takes up the whole left side of the window and instead floats above the canvas and gives more space for your image to be viewed. (And every time I look at it, it makes me think of MacPaint and its tool palette. What a great app that was!)
That’s a good change, but I still question the premise of the new tool palette design. I kind like having the tool options and layers docked to the right side of the document window, but I don’t understand the desire to have the tool icons at the left displayed on top of the image. You save a little space but have to keep pressing Tab to see the whole image. I think the MacPaint and Acorn 6 way of having a separate tools palette worked just fine. Thankfully, Acorn still supports the Float inspector palettes in windows option.
Previously:
- Tahoe Window Corners
- Shipping Liquid Glass
- Liquid Glass: Content vs. Controls
- Acorn 8
- Rounded Quick Look Corners
- Acorn 7
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Such a travesty that developers feel obligated to spend so much time and effort to conform to a top-to-bottom UI regression.
