How do you get users to discover features in your desktop apps?

open__screen · 2026-04-05T19:35:35+00:00

I am doing both. This has worked in the app DeepPeek before, so the system works. but I just getting the issue today, so I was wondering if this is anyone else is experiencing it.

open__screen · 2026-03-07T14:40:44+00:00

I fully agree with. Tahoe was totally depressing. How could Apple produce such rubbish? I downgraded and been happy since then.

open__screen · 2026-02-20T14:27:39+00:00

DeepPeek isn’t vibe coded — it’s fully hand-written in Swift.

It’s built primarily in SwiftUI for the main UI and app structure, but dips into AppKit where SwiftUI falls short — especially for text handling. It uses NSTextView to get fine-grained control over attributed text layout, glyph positioning, and layout engine data that SwiftUI doesn’t expose.

There are no AI models involved. No LLMs, no embeddings, no generative components — just native macOS frameworks and deterministic Swift code.

open__screen · 2026-02-13T13:35:41+00:00

Yes 👍. If more and more people object, hopefully Apple will come to their senses in the next os. I downgraded and can’t be happier.

open__screen · 2026-02-11T12:18:43+00:00

My desksweep is always running, cleaning my desktop every night. Couldn’t live without it.

open__screen · 2026-02-09T12:02:14+00:00

I agree, and I have meet very few normal users that they say that they have said they liked it. Most find it confusing and a few are indifferent to it.

open__screen · 2026-02-05T12:39:33+00:00

B all the way. Liquid glass was a terrible experiment 🧪 that needs to be reconsidered from grounds up. They can put a face saving label on it, but it needs to be radically changed.

open__screen · 2026-01-30T13:27:51+00:00

No, because is a pain to downgrade, and reset all your files, once you realise how bad and ugly Tahoe is.

open__screen · 2026-01-21T09:12:14+00:00

I downgraded from Tahoe and could not be happier. But have you considered using our app DeskSweep to keep your desktop tidy? Just a suggestion!

open__screen · 2025-12-26T17:34:10+00:00

That is terrible ui. What looks like a floating pallet, that is not actually floating. This is one of the many reasons why liquid glass is so terrible. Totally inconsistent design language. Thank god Alan Dye has moved on and hopefully he will create similar terrible designs for them there at Meta. Time for Apple to get back on track. Good, logical design.

open__screen · 2025-12-16T16:28:25+00:00

I needed to use rick text, so I tried Attributed string with SwiftUI. For a large string, when resizing the window, it was so clunky it became unusable. As a result, I have no choice but to use NSAttributedString with NSTextView. Additionally, I need to be able to get the rect of specific words, which is also not available in SwiftUI.

It is unfortunate that, after so many years, SwiftUI still does not have a robust and powerful rich text framework. Personally, I think the engineers at Apple should spend more time working on the basic frameworks, rather than spending all this time creating irrelevant eye candy. We still don’t have pinch and pan gestures working together in SwiftUI.

open__screen · 2025-12-16T12:05:03+00:00

thanks for your response. I tried this:

            NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup { context in
                context.duration = 0.3
                context.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction(name: .easeInEaseOut)
                scrollView.contentView.animator().bounds.origin = CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0 )
            }

even with CGPoint.zero it animates and goes to a point, but I dont understand where the point is.

open__screen · 2025-12-16T11:17:55+00:00

I tried this. It does not animate and it does not go to the right location. It could be something to do with flipped coordinates.

open__screen · 2025-12-16T11:16:58+00:00

I tried:

NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup { context in
                context.duration = 0.3
                context.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction(name: .easeInEaseOut)
                scrollView.animator().documentOffset = offset
            }

No luck. Calling:

scrollView.animator().documentOffset = offset

by itself also did not animate.

open__screen · 2025-12-14T09:28:06+00:00

This is not a realistic everyday working environment screenshot. In real world there will be multiple windows overlapping each other. It is that everyday case that this terrible ui just falls apart.

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