Pleco for Mac Update?

mikelove

皇帝
Staff member
Not to play the blame game, but we had been planning to release a Mac beta with our big UI simplification revamp and ended up nixing that plan over stupid Liquid Glass.

In general my thinking now is trending back towards “release a meh Mac version and charge for it and make it good if people pay for it” because Apple UI design is such a train wreck that I’m really reluctant to put in the effort to make anything new and polished on their platforms right now.
 

Gukeli

秀才
Lovely news! Just basic dictionary lookup on a 'click a character (or two...)' would be wonderful for me to have on my laptop. As for Liquid Glass - a review tried to explain it as "Liquid Glass is essentially a new design concept that's built on the idea of layering software elements that look like actual glass, making for a design that looks more natural, rather than completely digital.". Lord knows what that is about. Anyway, I have managed to avoid noticing its presence overmuch.
 

Fernando

榜眼
because Apple UI design is such a train wreck that I’m really reluctant to put in the effort to make anything new and polished on their platforms right now.
And as Apple drops the ball over and over again we get closer and closer to Pleco as a GTK app.
 

mikelove

皇帝
Staff member
I mean honestly even though I don't care for it, if most people loved it then I would cheerfully redesign Pleco around it; the problem is that they released a design that way too many people hate and that is likely not long for this world, and it would be a terrible shame to waste a lot of time optimizing around that.
 
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