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4 years ago1Password 8 for Mac is here - but still not a macOS application
I remember bold claims around continuing the work on the beta and not releasing 1PW 8 before it looks and behaves like a real macOS application. Does this mean that this is the result of this process...
viswiz
4 years agoSuper Contributor
I'm torn. The developer in me is excited about the technology used, i. e. a combination of a rust core with a multi platform independent UI. The user side is much more difficult. From early access to the current version it was a long, bumpy road. Some of the most glaring issues like the fake modal used instead of a preferences window were fixed but many issues still exist.
* modals/dialogs: Several dialogs still use the fake, totally out of place X top right of the window. Whenever I see such a dialog it feels like someone is shouting "we don't care about your OS and its UI".
* icons: Although beautifully crafted they just feel a bit out of place on macOS.
* menus: mix of real and custom menus. Context menus in the item list are native whereas all dropdown menus look totally different.
* scroll: no elastic scroll with bounce effect.
* item counts: instead of using the quite common way of putting the item count right next to the item like it was in some of the nightlys we now have an item count at the bottom of the list - one has to scroll to get the count...almost unusable. Another item count is hidden behind the sort icon.
* search: instead of just searching for what was entered and showing the results within the list it now gets really messy. Even if I ignore that it still does not support substring search, something 1PW7 had since the beginning, it's now filtering/sorting by relevance and shows only a part of the results in a dropdown instead of inline. One has to press CMD+Enter to get all results inline. This is a show stopper. You've added filtering but that's hidden in the menus and it doesn't replace search. At least within the German translation search and Find/Filter use the same translation - "Suchen".
* fonts and spacing: in compact mode it's quite close to macOS but it still has some subtile differences that make it feel strange