Also part of a trend to add more “hover and wait” elements pointlessly:
- Can’t see scrollbar without hovering and waiting.
- Can’t see folder drag icon in window title without hovering and waiting.
- Can’t interact with notifications without hovering and waiting.
- Can’t see full menu of options on Full Screen window button without hovering and waiting.
Dear Apple: this is a fundamentally backwards design trend that creates major productivity hits. These were arbitrary changes that made things harder to use. In short: there was no “design” happening here, it was just “fiddling”.
One of my pet peeves with the HTML title attribute is that it requires “hover and wait” to view the content as a tooltip. MDN [1] links to a wonderful guide [2] on how to avoid tooltips whenever possible and make them accessible if needed. For some reason, the accessible tooltips require custom implementation and is not the default browser behavior for the title attribute.
The worst part is when some app implements that poorly, so you end up with a scrollbar that disappears while you're still hovered, causing your click to fall through and hit something you didn't want.
Or you're trying to select text from the last line of a text file but the horizontal scrollbar keeps popping up and getting in the way. This absurdity happens in the default text editor in Mint Cinnamon.
> Can’t see full menu of options on Full Screen window button without hovering and waiting.
So it's not just me! Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this is used anywhere else in macOS. It's obviously a button and it opens a normal vanilla macOS list-menu (don't know the term they use) without you clicking it. The hidden folder icon for dragging is a bit annoying, but this infuriates me for some reason.
I liked the Mavericks fullscreen button the most, but even the click-and-hold solution was better than this crap.
- Can’t see scrollbar without hovering and waiting.
- Can’t see folder drag icon in window title without hovering and waiting.
- Can’t interact with notifications without hovering and waiting.
- Can’t see full menu of options on Full Screen window button without hovering and waiting.
Dear Apple: this is a fundamentally backwards design trend that creates major productivity hits. These were arbitrary changes that made things harder to use. In short: there was no “design” happening here, it was just “fiddling”.