Post #2417556

2025-06-15 16:57 UTC

Several people have said having the sidebar float over the window feels weird, and I agree. Here I effectively reversed the visual hierarchy: the sidebar extends from "underneath" the window like a drawer. We gain back the pixels from the left of the sidebar and we don't have to figure out how to extend the content behind the sidebar. Conceptually, in most cases, the sidebar is not the most important part of your window, it's there to show/change the context of what's happening on the right.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social 2025-06-15 17:02

The next obvious thing is what's happening in the toolbar. I think the progressive blur from Liquid Glass is cool, but for legibility and clear separation of UI vs. content, I went for the "classic" look. The toolbar is also more compact, so we can actually benefit from the space savings afforded by the combined titlebar. And of course, the humongous drop shadows have been pulled back, now just serving to highlight the capsules. The spacing of the capsules and icons in them were also adjusted.

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@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz 2025-06-15 17:00

@tuomas_h@mastodon.social this is a huge improvement.

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@FormerlyStC@mas.to 2025-06-15 23:25

@tuomas_h@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social It feels so good here to have an unambiguously bounded area that clearly defines the content and its inherent whitespace, instead of a wider one where the translucent floating sidebar implies that the content actually has a big left margin. If the chrome (or glass) wants to get out of the way of the content, it needs to respect the content’s designed bounds.

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@leafmuncher@mastodon.online 2025-06-16 02:59

@tuomas_h@mastodon.social much better!

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