clever hack reaching into the private ivar. curious if this holds up across macos updates or if apple has been stable with NSSymbolImageRep. also, is the main value here batch exports or is it specifically for letting agents grab icons without the gui
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#12clever hack reaching into the private ivar. curious if this holds up across macos updates or if apple has been stable with NSSymbolImageRep. also, is the main value here batch exports or is it specifically for letting agents grab icons without the gui
Based on my research the ivar has been stable since macOS 13. I'll keep things up to date if that ever changes... To your second question, it's mostly for agents to pull icons as they go without interruption or you having to find whatever it chose to replace later. I've found Claude using batch mode after it does a lookup against the list to match a set of icons.