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Are there different color styles around, how you might change the
appearance of MacOS windows and finder?

The system settings -> appearance does not offer the options I want.

I'm annoyed by the "white" look of every finder. Maybe I had better eyes before. But now everything is a blurr of white and light grey. I don't
see any borders any more between tabs, vertical scroll bars etc.

And when I change the format to "dark" I don't see any borders any more
between different windows.
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Martin ?rautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> wrote:

Are there different color styles around, how you might change the
appearance of MacOS windows and finder?

The system settings -> appearance does not offer the options I want.

I'm annoyed by the "white" look of every finder. Maybe I had better eyes before. But now everything is a blurr of white and light grey. I don't
see any borders any more between tabs, vertical scroll bars etc.

And when I change the format to "dark" I don't see any borders any more between different windows.

Maybe you can find an accessibilty setting to help. I use Settings/Accessibility/Display/Increase contrast; it adjusts
the definition of window and button boundaries, etc.
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On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:42:49 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

Maybe you can find an accessibilty setting to help. I use Settings/Accessibility/Display/Increase contrast; it adjusts
the definition of window and button boundaries, etc.

Thanks - increasing contrast does show more visible borders now.
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On 2026-08-19 15:12:59 +0000, Martin +nrautmann said:

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:42:49 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

Maybe you can find an accessibilty setting to help. I use
Settings/Accessibility/Display/Increase contrast; it adjusts the
definition of window and button boundaries, etc.

Thanks - increasing contrast does show more visible borders now.

Unfortuantely you can't officially turn off the awful "Liquid Glass"
nonsense and it's been many versions since you were able to
'theme'/'skin' MacOS. :-(

Until Apple finally sees sense (or more likely introduces something
even worse!), the best you can do is tweak a few settings to tone down
the "Liquid Glass" effects.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qes6X7aAvI>

Reportedly there is actually a hidden option that can be toggled via a Terminal command to *ALMOST* turn "Liquid Glass" off in MacOS 26, but
doesn't quite fully work: <https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/>



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On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:13:02 +1200, Your Name wrote:

On 2026-08-19 15:12:59 +0000, Martin +nrautmann said:

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:42:49 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

Maybe you can find an accessibilty setting to help. I use
Settings/Accessibility/Display/Increase contrast; it adjusts the
definition of window and button boundaries, etc.

Thanks - increasing contrast does show more visible borders now.

Unfortuantely you can't officially turn off the awful "Liquid Glass" nonsense and it's been many versions since you were able to
'theme'/'skin' MacOS. :-(

Until Apple finally sees sense (or more likely introduces something
even worse!), the best you can do is tweak a few settings to tone down
the "Liquid Glass" effects.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qes6X7aAvI>

Reportedly there is actually a hidden option that can be toggled via a Terminal command to *ALMOST* turn "Liquid Glass" off in MacOS 26, but doesn't quite fully work: <https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/>

Thanks!

I'll give

defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES

a try
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