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1Password 8 - Non-native feel
Like many Mac users, I was greatly disappointed to read that 1Password is moving to Electron. I firmly believe that Electron is a bad framework for app development, and the 1Password 8 beta does not ...
@cantgetagoodsn that's a nice list of applications or to be more correct websites / wrappers for websites. But none of them has created a desktop program or application. So you are comparing different things.
I think absolutely no one including Apple is expecting developers to follow the HIG exactly word by word. But there is a huge difference between interpreting the HIG in order to optimize the UX/UI or completely ignoring the most basic UI principles like closing a window top left or top right.
I've been using the early access version almost from day one on a separate partition/test installation and whenever I switch between my 1PW7 installation and the early access version I'm more than happy to leave early access as soon as possible. We got plenty of updates but not a single one has really changed even small parts of the UI on macOS to make it feel more naturally. And even pretty big regressions like the broken search, non working shortcut assignment on non English keyboard were fixed.
@Lars the home app is indeed a pretty bad example of Apple's own apps. Ironically it's a badly ported catalyst iOS app quite similar to AgileBits Electron approach with it's custom UI.
