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Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

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Post by eru »

ricardobayes wrote: post #17

Developer is a weird string choice though, why not Development or Code. It would be like MS naming its product VS Coder (lol)

Compare: the Scheme language was supposed to be called Schemer, but filename length limitations back then prevailed.

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bartvk wrote: post #19

That burnable folder icon is pretty fun. If you drag it to the Finder sidebar, it has a special icon too. I opened terminal, and did "mkdir Test.fpbf", then in Finder, navigated to the home directory and dragged that folder to the left sidebar. It shows up with a "nuke" icon to the left, and a grey nuke icon to the right. I may leave it there, to have something fun to talk about when sharing a screen over Teams with…

It may be hard to believe now, but there was a time when iTunes was a great piece of software. It used to have two jobs - play your music and manage your music - and it had a good UI for both tasks.

iTunes had a "brushed metal" interface - the Apple HIG said brushed metal was for apps that represent "devices", as opposed to standard "Aqua" (or "Platinum" if you go back far enough) for apps which represent "documents" - and in the top-right corner was a recessed "iris". When you put a blank CD into the drive, then clicked the iris with a playlist selected, the iris animated opening, revealing a glowing yellow and black "Burn" button (using this same icon). You clicked the glowing button and your playlist would be burnt to CD.

Burning a CD was an expensive operation (both in time and compute, as it slowed the machine down, plus it tied up your CD drive), so the "safety cover" iris and the animation revealing the button underneath used to delight me every time I used it.

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WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #16
schappim wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"quite some time", is an understatement. The Apache HTTP Server was included as part of Mac OS X starting with version 10.0 (Cheetah), which was released on March 24, 2001. Prior to that, users of Mac OS X would have to manually install and configure Apache HTTP Server, if they desired to run a web server on their Mac.

Was there a meaningful "before" for Mac OS X? 10.0 was the first X (unless you mean developer previews and the like).

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Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

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Post by alpaca128 »

xyst wrote: post #12

Personally going to start using the ~/Developer directory for all my projects now

Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed. One of the little details I miss from Linux.

I usually call that directory just "dev", and use lowercase names for all custom directories so zsh completion actually works.

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