Daniel Hruska One of the new features of the new OS X Yosemite is the so-called "dark mode", which simply switches the light gray color of the menu bar and the dock to a very dark gray. Many long-time Mac users have been asking for this feature, and Apple listened to them this year.
You turn on the function in System Preferences in the General section. The change will take effect immediately after checking the option - the menu bar, dock and dialog for Spotlight will darken and the font will turn white. At the same time, they will remain semi-transparent as in the original setting.
Standard system icons in the menu bar like Wi-Fi signal strength or battery status get white, but third-party app icons get a dark gray tinge. This current lack is not aesthetically pleasing and we will have to wait until the developers add new icons for dark mode as well.
For those who would like to make their system even more compatible with the dark mode, they can change the color appearance of OS X. The default setting is blue, with the option of graphite, which goes well with the dark background (see opening image).
“however, third-party app icons get a dark gray tint. This current shortcoming does not have an aesthetic effect" - in fact, the whole "dark mode" does not have an aesthetic effect, to put it mildly, but it acts as the last element of the system, like some strange, incoherent conglomerate. If the application window doesn't go dark, then I don't understand at all what they meant by this nonsense... that is, apart from the fact that in certain situations it can produce comical things, like writing on seven backgrounds: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/200161/scr/appledesign.png
I've had yogurt since Saturday and I'm pretty dialed in, it's some kind of meatballs, then the maximization of windows is somehow different, in the control sheets I only see gray frames with a black border, every app starts after a minute and it happens that it doesn't start at all... well I'm quite embarrassed about it...
I myself was a little worried about the functionality of the new system due to the comments I read. Animation lags, etc. really appeared, but after turning off transparency, everything runs like clockwork. Even the applications have a faster start-up than on the Maverick, which is great with the MBP 13″ early 2011. The only problem from the beginning was with Safari, which inexplicably got stuck at the moment when any Google service was supposed to load, but it mysteriously worked. Maybe I would try a clean installation (with a backup, of course).
I want to ask what you mean by turning off transparency, I have an MPB 13″ early 2011 but after installing Yosemite I cry about the earnings, quite often it throws me out that I have no more memory and it is totally stuck... :-/ It never happened to me on Maverick...
System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Monitor -> Reduce Transparency
Exactly as Honza writes. It's also interesting to me that Mac is cold even at work and doesn't act like an old actress. This has not happened to me in the last year with Maverick (usually an HD video, editing a larger document in photoshop was enough, and the wind blew like crazy), so the real positives prevail for me. And by the way, I don't know how much memory you have, I have 16 GB in my machine and I don't have the slightest problem.
There is no window maximization in OS X as it is in Windows. When it comes to clicking on the green "traffic light" button, which now switches to the fullscreen app, the original functionality can be invoked by simultaneously holding down Alt/Option or even easier by double-clicking anywhere on the top of the window.
Thanks! I didn't know the double-click trick on the window header.
I had the same problem. I formatted the HDD and did a clean install and everything is back to normal …. brisk :D
Here's to satisfaction. It's so crisp and fresh and still works just as well. Hello
So fresh, fresh, a bit smelly, but otherwise good. Freaks with iPhones will surely have no objections, it's good, super cool on the face at Starbucks. Ahhh!
I guess we're all talking about something different, aren't we? I recommend you get rid of your prejudices and switch from Windows to Yosemite. It's great :-)
No, we're talking about the same thing. I just overpaid the "goodness" by restoring from a backup back to Mavericks. I'm really wondering where you deduced that I'm using Windows, that Apple users only sing odes to praise, and anyone who criticizes automatically has something else? So those are the thought processes that I'm staring at.
You're really ugly.. Don't you know irony? I'm also annoyed by people who criticize every new product just to be a tough, hardcore Apple user who had a PowerBook before I sent my first iMessage. Head man. Hello
I don't really have a problem with identifying irony, but you probably have trouble using it. Similarly, the phrase "they had PowerBooks before I sent my first iMessage" doesn't make any sense either. But at least I see I hit the nail on the head with my first post. Hi.
I give up. Stick with Windows. Personally, I have nothing against them, I was also locked in a room for a while, steamed games and lectured the whole world during the break, just like you. And I assure you - it will pass with age (usually). Hello
Well, maybe it comes with age for me, but you've got it, man. Oh well, I'd rather squeeze out the blackberries and install Linux. Hi.
it would be nice if it switched automatically according to the time. weather forecast and sunrise and sunset. during the day it could be bright and after sunset, which shows the weather, it could somehow switch to dark.
Agreement. Black at night, bright at noon. And of course pink in the morning, purple in the morning and orange in the afternoon. I think that Apple would definitely hire you as a designer these days.
the f.lux application works similarly, only it changes the color temperature of the screen at night to yellow
it seems to be working :-) I just can't unlock the agents on the finder :-( does anyone know how to help? Otherwise, the Adobe package works fine and ps works...
I am personally annoyed by how oversaturated the entire system is (for example, the folders in the finder), everything seems very bright, transparent, for people who use the computer for work for several hours, it is unsatisfactory in my opinion. I'll see, maybe I'll get used to it... However, every time I press CMD+TAB, I'm shocked at what kind of ugly Mail.app icon it is, I've already tried to replace it, but it doesn't work, if I change it, the main icon remains. If anyone has any advice, please let me know.
I already figured it out, just download the LiteIcon program and the icons. I already have unsaturated folders and a different icon for Mail. Great.
Yes, great… debug OS X like widle. It's going in a good direction.
Exactly. When I changed the icons, I immediately remembered how I debugged Windows XP a few years ago.
So I tried a clean install on my MBP 13″ late 2011, 6GB RAM and the only thing I achieved is new settings and copying backups, but after opening iPhot, iTunes, Safari and mail, I have about 120MB of memory left, no change, I'll start doing something in iPhoto and it crashes, it just tries not to work... God forbid, when I open Pixelmator or something like that, it's the end and I get a message that I'm out of memory... I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but this never happened to me, until after the installation Yosemite... I'm really quite disappointed... :-/
...so go to the store and buy an SSD. Then even 4 GB of RAM is enough for Final Cut, Pixelmator and 16 tabs in Safari. And, of course, a clean install solves 95% of the problems mentioned in the discussion... See http://jablickar.cz/pomoc-mam-pomaly-mac/ A reasonable minimum for Yosemite in an aluminum MacBook Pro is 8GB, but the whole system takes advantage of the speedy disk work of SSDs, so it's time to invest and use classic disks only for backups or for saving movies. It's 2014, and technology and practices from the last millennium are no longer working. Solution: SSD+reinstall to a clean disk.
Well, I installed yosemite and I was sad "what would stewe jobs say about that?"
I threw Maverik back in there and.. at it. The iPhone from 5 is already a piece of cake.
That's my opinion and please, I'm not imposing it on anyone.
Snow Leopard and iOS 5. I'm not going anymore. Not unless he changes his strategy.