{"id":23146,"date":"2018-10-19T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23146"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:15:04","slug":"reduce-transparency-and-reduce-motion-in-macos-mojave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/reduce-transparency-and-reduce-motion-in-macos-mojave\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Transparency and Reduce Motion in macOS Mojave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reverttosaved.com\/2018\/10\/15\/in-macos-mojave-reduce-transparency-has-broken-logic-and-terrible-design\/\">Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/reverttosaved.com\/2018\/10\/15\/in-macos-mojave-reduce-transparency-has-broken-logic-and-terrible-design\/\">\n<p>What you&rsquo;d <em>expect<\/em> to happen is for macOS to remove the semi-transparent bits. So instead of Finder sidebars or the macOS app switcher showing what&rsquo;s beneath them, they&rsquo;d just have a neutral solid background. Nope. Instead, in its infinite wisdom, Apple&rsquo;s decided those components should instead be coloured by your <em>Desktop background<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This makes no logical sense. Why should the colour of an interface component be influenced by elements that may be several layers beneath them? Also, this decision can make interface elements <em>less<\/em> accessible, because you end up with an inconsistent interface (colours shifting as you move a window around the screen) and can impact on legibility (such as when moving a Finder window to the right on the default background, whereupon the sidebar goes a weird brown colour).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reverttosaved.com\/2018\/10\/15\/reduce-motion-doesnt-reduce-motion-in-the-macos-mojave-app-store\/\">Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/reverttosaved.com\/2018\/10\/15\/reduce-motion-doesnt-reduce-motion-in-the-macos-mojave-app-store\/\">\n<p>So, anyway, I just opened the App Store app on macOS Mojave, and I had the audacity to click on something that was featured and looked quite interesting. <em>WHOOSH<\/em> went the full-window slide transition. BLORCH went my innards. Through squinting eyes I then did a bit more testing. Clicking Done made the window zoom downwards again. And then I clicked a standard list item. <em>WHOOSH<\/em> went the full-window slide transition, but, excitingly, in a different direction this time (horizontally). GAH went my brain, asking me to JUST SODDING STOP WITH THIS STUPID EXPERIMENT ALREADY.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is with Reduce Motion on.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/is-there-hope-for-the-mac-app-store\/\">Is There Hope for the Mac App Store?<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Grannell: What you&rsquo;d expect to happen is for macOS to remove the semi-transparent bits. So instead of Finder sidebars or the macOS app switcher showing what&rsquo;s beneath them, they&rsquo;d just have a neutral solid background. Nope. Instead, in its infinite wisdom, Apple&rsquo;s decided those components should instead be coloured by your Desktop background. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-19T19:14:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"62c61372-a81c-4bcd-8f19-22a952d9be9b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-19T19:15:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AYsYTcqgcS82PGSKpUtm-mw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[930,30,39,1529],"class_list":["post-23146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-accessibility","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-13"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23147,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23146\/revisions\/23147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}