Free the Icons

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Post by zdw » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

Free the Icons
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Re: Free the Icons

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Post by hoistbypetard » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

Hard agree! Not only is it less fun and less visually appealing to me, I think forcing the uniform squircle everywhere makes it harder (than it used to be) to distinguish one app from another by icon alone.

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by altern8 » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

Tahoe was such a huge mess, but I'm hopeful that the new CEO will turn things around and bring things back to normal.

If they do, I'll consider upgrading both OS and laptop, but right now I'm holding on to Sequoia

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by colesantiago » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

It might be better to make Linux have these gorgeous icons now that Apple locked them up.

Make the icons be Free on Free OSes like Linux.

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by schappim » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:21 PM UTC

altern8 wrote: post #3

Tahoe was such a huge mess, but I'm hopeful that the new CEO will turn things around and bring things back to normal. If they do, I'll consider upgrading both OS and laptop, but right now I'm holding on to Sequoia

It really was Mac OS X's Vista moment.

Edit: It'll always be Mac OS X to me, not macOS.

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by vikingcat » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

altern8 wrote: post #3

Tahoe was such a huge mess, but I'm hopeful that the new CEO will turn things around and bring things back to normal. If they do, I'll consider upgrading both OS and laptop, but right now I'm holding on to Sequoia

Apple CEOs always seem to want to make a splash via hardware (especially since the guy worked in hardware engineering) but it would be nice if an engineer brings more focus on the software as well.

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by geraldcombs » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:25 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #4

It might be better to make Linux have these gorgeous icons now that Apple locked them up. Make the icons be Free on Free OSes like Linux.

What's been keeping Linux from having gorgeous icons up to this point?

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by dylan604 » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

geraldcombs wrote: post #7

colesantiago wrote: post #4

It might be better to make Linux have these gorgeous icons now that Apple locked them up. Make the icons be Free on Free OSes like Linux.

What's been keeping Linux from having gorgeous icons up to this point?

a question as old as Linux itself

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by edoceo » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

geraldcombs wrote: post #7

colesantiago wrote: post #4

It might be better to make Linux have these gorgeous icons now that Apple locked them up. Make the icons be Free on Free OSes like Linux.

What's been keeping Linux from having gorgeous icons up to this point?

Someone with 5000 hours design experience needs to make a common icon theme for a few 100 GTK and QT libraries and standard-names. It feels like it's 1000s of hours of work. And then you have to make them available in a few formats, HDPI, maybe a build system, etc. there are a number of themes but the ones I try seem to be missing one or more of the icons from the set. Just need the right volunteers to build them, and also get a bunch of app-builders to adopt them, and figure out what colour the bike-shed should be (blue).

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by saagarjha » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

altern8 wrote: post #3

Tahoe was such a huge mess, but I'm hopeful that the new CEO will turn things around and bring things back to normal. If they do, I'll consider upgrading both OS and laptop, but right now I'm holding on to Sequoia

Golden Gate is better but it hasn't fixed your icons unfortunately