Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
25 points by runxiyu
25 points by runxiyu
a bit off-topic, but I think I'm icon blind, I don't see icons at all in my normal usage. They don't even register for me. I upgraded to tahoe and to be honest nothing has bothered me so far. Am I too deep in stocholm syndrome with my systems?
Eh, your brain is there to adapt to the circumstances you use it in. And different people's brains will pick up on different details and patterns in different ways. If it works for you, good.
(Entertainingly, this is also why I think a UI monoculture is a bad thing and there is no solution perfect for everyone, but Apple doesn't care.)
If people are mentally filtering out the icons, then they serve no purpose other than to reduce the effectiveness of icons in general. This consideration used to be a design consideration on operating systems, but no longer alas.
The version before Tahoe (Sonoma?) was my first version of macos and I also couldn't have sworn the icons weren't there before.
I'm not saying the criticism isn't valid, but "I don't care" is also just a valid opinion.
not relevant to me, but after reading a bit about menu icons on tahoe, i do believe that most of them serve no good purpose, and this might be helpful to users looking for a quick fix?
The problem is that some of them serve a good purpose. Neither keeping them all nor hiding them all leaves the UI in a good state.
It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize.
That, of course, is matter of taste.