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Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#31

Post by noduerme » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:27 AM UTC

Goddamn. Sorry, I had to laugh that the ~/Sites folder icon lives inside apache2.

Here's how unevolved I am. I strip every new Mac I buy down to nothing, remove all Apple apps, install Homebrew mysql, apache, nginx, node and php, and then point all my fucking local build shit at...wait for it... the ~/Sites folder because that used to be the place you'd automatically drop things to have built-in apache pick them up and treat them as localhost in 2008, and I just don't want to change where I store shit in my grand 25-year-old file hierarchy. And that icon's still there.

Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#32

Post by xattt » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:28 AM UTC

rahoulb wrote: post #22

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"…

Please stop describing something I remember experiencing like yesterday the same way they talk about ox ploughs at a pioneer village museum.

Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#33

Post by unfunco » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:33 AM UTC

rahoulb wrote: post #22

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"…

I used to use Disco, the website is still alive: https://discoapp.com

When a CD was burning, smoke would emanate from the app, and if you blew on your microphone the smoke would disperse.

Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#34

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:34 AM UTC

noduerme wrote: post #31

Goddamn. Sorry, I had to laugh that the ~/Sites folder icon lives inside apache2. Here's how unevolved I am. I strip every new Mac I buy down to nothing, remove all Apple apps, install Homebrew mysql, apache, nginx, node and php, and then point all my fucking local build shit at...wait for it... the ~/Sites folder because that used to be the place you'd automatically drop things to have built-in apache pick them up a…

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Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#35

Post by marionauta » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:37 AM UTC

alpaca128 wrote: post #27

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.

What I do is create a symbolic link to the "Developer" folder called "src". Both folders have the custom icon, and I can `cd src/project`!

Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#36

Post by LaputanMachine » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:39 AM UTC

rahoulb wrote: post #22

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"…

At the bottom of this page is a picture of the "Burn CD" button:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/audio_only_fcp_cd.html

Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#37

Post by ttepasse » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:56 AM UTC

alpaca128 wrote: post #27

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.

> Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed.

For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in:

  chflags hidden ~/Music

Still available in the shell or in the Finder with the ⇧⌘. shortcut but out of the way in normal use. Return to normal with the flag nohidden. Although Documents and Desktop seem to be a special case because of the iCloud shenanigans. I seem to have hidden them in the past, but can’t unhide them. :/

Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#38

Post by rollcat » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:56 AM UTC

8organicbits wrote: post #4

> If you’re new to macOS, this is a kindly reminder that macOS ships with Apache2. Oh, I didn't realize that. Seems like a strange choice?

OS X used to be a very decent out-of-the-box server OS, that also came with an actually usable GUI to configure many things.

A friend of mine would put a "shared" Mac Mini somewhere in the office at almost every job he's ever had, "just in case". Need to let a guest browse the web? The router is failing? Transcode some media? It always came in clutch.

Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#39

Post by Aeolun » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:59 AM UTC

unfunco wrote: post #33

rahoulb wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"…

I used to use Disco, the website is still alive: https://discoapp.com When a CD was burning, smoke would emanate from the app, and if you blew on your microphone the smoke would disperse.

I guess a mac only application for disk burning becomes a bit pointless when there’s no macs with disc drives any more.

Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

#40

Post by spongeb00b » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 11:05 AM UTC

For a few years now I've been using a ~/Uploads directory, as in the opposite of ~/Downloads

Uploads is where I put any temporary files that I've just made, e.g. an attachment I need to email, or upload into an online service of some kind. Previously my desktop became littered with these files which I absolutely hated.

I just wish I could set the sidebar icon to an upwards arrow.