I spent a very long time getting high-res screenshots of Pages on Lion and Catalina with a non-Retina laptop, and also pulling quotes out of videos.

[nickheer@c.im]

I spent a very long time getting high-res screenshots of Pages on Lion and Catalina with a non-Retina laptop, and also pulling quotes out of videos. Please do not make me regret it. https://pxlnv.com/blog/window-chrome-of-our-discontent/

[dmd@mastodon.social]

@nickheer Thank you for this. I miss this version of Pages SO MUCH. It had everything I needed.

With later versions, I'm constantly switching between sidebar tabs, because there's too many controls and they're all too big. Infrequently used stuff should be in the menubar instead. Remember the menubar? Not everything needs to be on screen!

You have valid points about later versions being improved in some ways, but personally, I would be happy sticking with the Lion version of Pages forever.

[willhbr@ruby.social]

@nickheer I clicked to expand

[jwisser@wandering.shop]

@nickheer God, this made me mad.

I *do* think the prescription is rolling back to a decade-old design language. I recognize that it was imperfect—you make a good point about the smaller mouse targets of the elements that wind up in the formatting sidebar in later versions—but for me personally, I'm very willing to make that tradeoff.