Unfortunately this setting doesn’t undo the most problematic aspect of LG, which is that many of the primary functions of Apple applications on Mac have been moved to the bottom of the screen. The playback controls in Music are good example of how bad this is. This new toggle doesn’t fix it, instead you have to disable LG entirely for Music using terminal.
Cupertino is beyond lazy development wise!
Yes, except for Apple! My Tahoe rants are targeted towards the powers that be at Apple, out of frustration. I do hope they have some employees sniffing around forums here and there when pushback surfaces.
Ah, the memories of Windows Plus! and Theme packs for Windows 98 and later. I guess hipster vintage is in yet again? LMFAO
You can always take 2 minutes to provide it directly to Apple. The more feedback they get, the more likely they are to pay attention. https://www.apple.com/feedback/
Good memories! Yes, XP was trying to compete with OS X in those days. I actually have a vintage ThinkPad dual-booting Windows '98 and Windows XP and yes, both have the Plus! packs and themes, AfterDark Screensavers ('98 as they never worked on XP), the 'Icon-Hear-It!' apps from Moon Valley Software, vintage games and other goodies from that golden era!
This is a troublesome feature. From Apple’s perspective, they’re probably thinking in continuity terms that other devices use a control bar at the bottom of the screen, so why is Music on Mac different? The truth is likely goes back to iTunes, and we’ve adapted to the top control bar through habit.
There are other comments about this in the Music app criticism thread here. The problem isn't about expectation or habit, it's about information architecture for Western languages. Apple clearly ignores this and at the same time has no style guide or consistent UI design requirements for LG. Information architecture needs to follow a hierarchy from important to unimportant, and top to bottom left to right for Western languages.
Perhaps it’s just a placeholder for the next beta? Hopefully, anyway.
I gave up on trying to customize icons for apps that came with the OS. I've tried all the tricks I could find; they either didn't work or there was always some glitch.
That sounds like an amazing script, I wish there was an app that did this. Creating scripts are a bit beyond my knowledge, and I am sure yours can't be shared as it probably points to your particular saved custom icons.
well, I'm 77 and i like it
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This applescript allows bulk setting custom icons for apps (or folders)
It cannot set icons for system apps like Safari
or apps you do not own such as those installed from the App store
Tested working on Sonoma 14.5
USAGE: Create a text file called replicons.cfg in your Documents folder
following this format
<app1-posix-full-path>,<icon1-posix-full-path>
<app2-posix-full-path>,<icon2-posix-full-path>
...
Icon may be of type .icns or an image type such as .png
Example:
/Applications/Google Chrome.app,/Volumes/T7/icons/chrome dark.icns
/Applications/foobar2000.app,/Volumes/T7/Downloads/foobar2000.icns
/Applications/Spotify.app,/Users/me/Documents/icons/Spotify.png
To revert an icon to the default, leave the icon field empty (note the comma)
/Applications/Spotify.app,
Do not leave blank lines or leading / trailing white spaces.
Stackexchange discussion
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/473597/change-apps-icon-by-script
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use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
set configFile to (path to home folder as text) & "Documents:replicons.cfg"
-- Function to set the icon for a given application
on setAppIcon(appPath, iconPath)
try
-- the magic happens here
if iconPath is "" then
set image to missing value
else
-- Make the Dock think the icon has changed (may not be necessary?)
-- do shell script "touch \"" & iconPath & "\""
set image to current application's NSImage's alloc()'s initByReferencingFile:iconPath
end if
set success to current application's NSWorkspace's sharedWorkspace's setIcon:image forFile:appPath options:0
return success
on error errStr number errorNumber
display dialog errStr
return false
end try
end setAppIcon
-- Parse a line from the config file
on parseLine(aLine)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ","
set parsedList to text items of aLine
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return parsedList
end parseLine
-- Read the appIconPairs from an external text file
set appIconPairs to {}
try
set fileContents to read (configFile as alias)
set fileLines to paragraphs of fileContents
repeat with aLine in fileLines
if aLine is not "" and aLine does not start with "#" then
set {appPath, iconPath} to my parseLine(aLine)
copy {appPath, iconPath} to end of appIconPairs
end if
end repeat
on error errStr number errorNumber
display dialog errStr
return
end try
set successCount to 0
repeat with appIconPair in appIconPairs
set {appPath, iconPath} to appIconPair
if setAppIcon(appPath, iconPath) then
set successCount to successCount + 1
end if
end repeat
if successCount > 0 then
-- Restart the Dock to refresh the icons
do shell script "killall Dock"
-- display dialog "Successfully replaced " & (successCount as string) & " icons."
else
display dialog "No change made."
end if