On: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

[whalesalad]

For a period I was replacing my vscode icon with a dark one, but every app update (which is fairly frequent) would clobber it.

https://github.com/dhanishgajjar/vscode-icons

[behnamoh → whalesalad]

I wrote a script and aliased it so that after each vsc update I just run the script to replace its icon.

vscode’s icon is so bland and boring, it’s also hard to distinguish from other apps cause nowadays lots of apps use blue colored icons.

[whalesalad → behnamoh]

way too many macOS icons are set on a rounded white rectangle which definitely reduces your ability to quickly identify an app. miss the old days of unique app icon silhouettes because it definitely helps with quickly identifying the app.

[blairbeckwith → whalesalad]

There is a small utility called Replacicon[1] that fixes this.

[1] https://replacicon.app/

[gattilorenz → whalesalad]

Years ago I needed to run from time to time a very old version of XCode (2.X while the current one was 3.X). I opened the original icon of the old app in Gimp, turned the blueprint to a red hue, and replaced it. Easy to tell what you have open in the dock!