I don't like the squircle style to begin with, and on top of that they make everything look boring and too similar.
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Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?
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I miss the days of hitting the apps folder in my dock, in grid view, and immediately identifying the app I wanted to open by its unique, well designed, and well thought-out icon which had an image and shape that was relevant to the app it represented. Same for a full and often crowded dock as well.
Now there’s more squinting and looking at app names to locate the app alphabetically in a sea of mostly lazy and glyph adorned tile icons that often resemble many other icons, losing that quick glance and app selection, which is what icons are for.
If I had to sum up everything I hate about macOS, it would be Apple’s relentless, forced, and completely unnecessary iOSification of a once iconic desktop operating system. All to cater to their biggest consumer base, the iPhone using masses, and the desire to cross-sell their other hardware and services to said market and consumer base.
And if the assumption is that Apple is getting their desktop operating system and Mac users ready for touchscreen Macs, then these Macs better have 360 degree hinges that allow for full tablet mode handling, because why would anyone want to touch a screen on a non-convertible device, and on MacBooks, which have the industry’s best and biggest trackpads.
Now there’s more squinting and looking at app names to locate the app alphabetically in a sea of mostly lazy and glyph adorned tile icons that often resemble many other icons, losing that quick glance and app selection, which is what icons are for.
If I had to sum up everything I hate about macOS, it would be Apple’s relentless, forced, and completely unnecessary iOSification of a once iconic desktop operating system. All to cater to their biggest consumer base, the iPhone using masses, and the desire to cross-sell their other hardware and services to said market and consumer base.
And if the assumption is that Apple is getting their desktop operating system and Mac users ready for touchscreen Macs, then these Macs better have 360 degree hinges that allow for full tablet mode handling, because why would anyone want to touch a screen on a non-convertible device, and on MacBooks, which have the industry’s best and biggest trackpads.
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^^^^You can customize folder icons, and they will show up in the dock with the customization 👍
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I’m at loss here as well. And already modifying macOS to be touch-friendly for the sake of one Mac model for the years to come seems just idiotic.
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If Windows 8 is gonna be our benchmark we might as well pack it up and leave.
Are you sure? In 26.1 beta 2 it doesn't seem to work. Once dragged to the dock, they turn blue again and have no symbols (at least for me).
Edit: Found a workaround... Open Info, copy and paste the folder preview at the top of the Info window, and then it works. I'm not sure if it was intended to be so complicated.
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I imagine that Apple provided the option to turn off Liquid Glass so that developers could compare how their apps work on the 'old' UI, to check whether any interface problems in their apps were particular to the new look or not. Such an option would be temporary once LG was sufficiently mature.
I very much doubt that someone said "Oh, while we're creating this exciting new look, let's also maintain a completely separate interface structure for anyone who doesn't want it, but not advertise the fact or provide a switch in Settings."
Why is the sidebar Mac HD symbol the more traditional field of view, compared to the Finder icon? Doesn't make any sense.
26 has some UI problems for sure, but this? C'mon now. You're really digging deep here...
Yes, but the issue here is that the (new) default process of customizing a folder (with a glyph, color) in Tahoe doesn't retain these customizations when added to the dock, so this workaround is a solve for that.
As far as just changing icons that we don't like, sure, users can change icons on many apps (not default macOS apps), but this gets tiring in an age when apps are updated on a constant basis, especially if you have many apps installed.
It seemed obvious, but evidently it wasn't. It's clear how to change an icon in macOS, but with the customizations possible in Tahoe, one would have expected them to be automatically transferred to the dock. Copying and pasting an icon from the exact same place isn't exactly elegant.
I found an icon that doesn't squircle but also doesn't fit LG. Hilariously, it's from World of Tanks which is a Windows game that runs in a Wine wrapper from CodeWeavers for Mac version. My LG icons are 74x74. This one is 65x90. 😆
seems to me tahoe'd just for the sake of change as this is Mojave Dock, clean and visual pleasing.
Any new design should be coherent and comprehensive. I've been given handbooks for things like corporate logo changes, that run into hundreds of pages, detailing every possible use case -- fonts, logos, sizes, relative positions and distances -- in minute detail.
The fact that there are so many inconsistencies is indicative of a lack of skill, experience or effort.
Nah actually it's Tahoe that restricts the icons. Developers cannot overrule it. The only way to use a different icon is to manually replace the icon with a non-conforming one (which is what you did, and what I also do with some apps). But if the app is compiled with such an icon, Tahoe will put it in a squircicle (which I personally find abhorrent).
Since engineers are obviously subject to tight deadlines, it would be nice if, instead of adding features to version .1, they focused solely on correcting/developing .0.
There's no point in building on quicksand. After that, they can happily devote themselves to creating new bugs
You can go find the icons you like and replace them.
P.S. In addition to what I've already said:
Once those apps are updated (and MS apps are updated often), their icons will, most likely, revert to the standard ones— and you'll have to replace them again.
IF your manually applied icons will be preserved after updating the apps, then can you please come back here and elaborate on how you applied them? I myself would like to know how to do this, as at this point I'm not aware of any way to keep manually applied icons after the apps are updated.
create an alias and change its icon? I only did a quick test, but it seems to work.
It doesn't matter what percentage of real world Mac users are represented here. The GUI is under cooked, the philosophy and implementation of liquid glass is flawed, we know it and Apple know it (or they don't until they hear complains).
Apple giving a choice to turn-off Liquid Glass in iOS/macOS 26.1 beta4, proves you (not us) are speculating that average users don't care, and proves that there are still someone who cares about GUI and UX, pushing Apple improving their new design.
