Are window titles, including those in the IDE, Xojo2025R3, are left aligned. Is this by design or a bug? Looks really odd.
Ok thanks.
I’ve just updated from Ventura to Tahoe. My computer was a 2019 iMac and couldn’t be upgraded beyond Ventura. Still think it looks odd and not sure that left aligned titles are an improvement, but then a few of the things I’ve seen in Tahoe are not improvements.
Have you seen where Apple display the information when you open a folder in the Finder ?
Do not search, it is no more below the Title Bar, but instead they are located at the window bottom !
This recalls me something: makes changes for making changes !
I so agree with you!
I’ve the impression of seeing a Linux or (worse) Windows titlebar 
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I agree.
We’re all programmers although I’m now retired. I do remember making some changes that involved some really complex programming. I sort of knew deep down this wasn’t a good idea, and when released to the users I was asked after a week to back it out, very clever, but not user friendly.
I sent a window screen shot to a Pro-Bono user and his answer was:
“I do not hve time now, I will come back to you ”
I disliked that answer and do not wait at all. (I changed nothing to my window) thinking “If he displike it, he better tell that on time”.
My understanding was that UI compatibility mode would turn this off.
There is a simple solution to the shock you get when you upgrade so far… upgrade every year. The changes are typically much more subtle and easier to get used to.
That wasn’t a choice I had … Sonoma followed Ventura and my computer couldn’t run it. I got Tahoe when I bought a new machine.
I’ve wondered about that, too (but not time to check yet). Still, it would look weird to have a mix of both (some apps with left-aligned titles and others with centred titles) on the same desktop…
I would possibly think Apple enforce the alignement regardless of the UI compatibility mode setting.
To be left aligned apps need to use SDK 26, without UI compatibility. Apps compiled against older SDKs will show centred titles as before. UI compatibility is only going to work for macOS 26. It goes away with macOS 27, according to Apple. Equally macOS 27 will drop all Intel support.
Thanks for confirming this fact, which I haven’t time to check.
I’d have assumed Apple would have had the resources to make the new alignement uniform, regardless of the sdk used (to avoid the ugliness).
Indeed. At that time, supporting both the previous and new them will be a challenge. Better trying to adapt now, I guess.
Installers/updates will certainly be faster!
That would require them to modify every version of macOS SDK to change the titles alignment. Then distribute it somehow. It could break existing apps, as important elements could be covered over by the change in title location.
Not sure. They could probably bypass the SDK check in the title rendering function in the Window Server process.
That’s not how this works. Remember, the SDK version is not the same as the OS Version. SDK defines the version of the Apple frameworks that your app is compiled against. OS is the version that your app is running on. While it is a subtle difference, it does matter. Apple can’t just unify everything in the older OSs because the framework itself is not compiled into your app. Those exist on your users machines with whatever version of macOS that they are running. Your app just declares that it’s been compiled with this or that SDK and that helps the OS do the right thing if there were subtleties within that particular year.
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