macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view
6 hours ago
- #macOS
- #Finder
- #UI Design
- Investigation into a Safari issue on macOS Tahoe led to discovery of a Finder bug related to the Liquid Glass redesign.
- Finder has four view modes: Icons, List, Columns, and Gallery, with Columns being the preferred mode for the author.
- A resizing widget at the bottom of each column in Finder is now covered by the horizontal scroller in macOS Tahoe, preventing its use.
- Comparison between macOS Tahoe and Sequoia shows the horizontal scroller and scroll bar placement differs, affecting access to resizing widgets.
- John Gruber criticized macOS 26's scrollbar design and transparency in windows, highlighting UI issues.
- With default settings, scrollbars and resizing widgets disappear in Finder, though columns can still be resized by hovering over borders.
- The Finder team may not have tested the combination of columns view with always show scroll bars, or ignored the bug.
- Gruber humorously suggested the UI redesign team might have been sabotaging macOS to make it look amateurish.