MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items
News Source : Daringfireball.net
News Summary
- MacOS 26 Tahoe added inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar.
- Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov noted it on Mastodon with before and after screenshots.
- Apple has updated the Human Interface Guidelines accordingly.
- Top third-party developers rightly rejected the design, adopting open source code from Brent Simmons to disable the default “icons in all standard menu items” behavior.
- Backtracking on these idiotic menu item icons was a necessary first step.
Perhaps the worst UI crime in MacOS 26 Tahoe was the inexplicable decision to add inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar.
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