{"id":35405,"date":"2022-03-29T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35405"},"modified":"2024-03-08T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:50:23","slug":"always-show-window-proxy-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/29\/always-show-window-proxy-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Show Window Proxy Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2022\/03\/26\/tipbits-always-show-window-proxy-icons\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2022\/03\/26\/tipbits-always-show-window-proxy-icons\/\">\n<p>While I&rsquo;m glad that Apple added an Accessibility option to make the window proxy icons visible again, I firmly believe that hiding them by default remains a mistake. Proxy icons show what type of content is in the window, and with documents, they visually link the document to its app. The proxy icon for a Pages document looks different from the proxy icon for a TextEdit document or any other app&mdash;it&rsquo;s a valuable visual hint to the user.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Clicking the downward-pointing arrow next to the title reveals a popover that lets you rename, tag, move, and lock the file. [&#8230;] Unfortunately, the popover doesn&rsquo;t provide nearly the same level of functionality as the proxy icon. Consider these real-world examples of how I use proxy icons, only one of which could be accomplished through the new popover interface[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Monterey also added a <strong>Show toolbar button shapes<\/strong> accessibility option. I typically run my Mac with that, <strong>Show window title icons<\/strong>, and <strong>Reduce transparency<\/strong>. I used to use <strong>Increase contrast<\/strong>, too, but am less happy with how it looks in recent macOS versions.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/05\/big-surs-hidden-document-proxy-icon\/\">Big Sur&rsquo;s Hidden Document Proxy Icon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"always-show-window-proxy-icons-update-2024-03-08\">Update (2024-03-08): <a href=\"https:\/\/toot.community\/@betalogue\/112060796192068704\">Pierre Igot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/toot.community\/@betalogue\/112060796192068704\">\n<p>A constant source of irritation for me since Apple revamped the window toolbar\/title bar: When the window title is half hidden, and you click on it to make it editable, if you go too fast, BEFORE macOS has a chance to reveal it in full, then the click fails to make it editable and is effectively ignored.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: While I&rsquo;m glad that Apple added an Accessibility option to make the window proxy icons visible again, I firmly believe that hiding them by default remains a mistake. Proxy icons show what type of content is in the window, and with documents, they visually link the document to its app. The proxy icon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-29T17:43:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"8f687180-f37e-4c9c-b4ea-054bfe22e7ea","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-03-08T20:50:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aj2hxgPN-TJy06gVL_iLn6g","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":[2],"tags":[930,30,2077],"class_list":["post-35405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-mac","tag-macos-12"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35405","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=35405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42431,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35405\/revisions\/42431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}