Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items

xandrius wrote: post #3

librasteve wrote: post #2

good - I have resorted to a config setting to suppress these bad icons on Tahoe

Can you share it?

In terminal:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool false

Re: Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items

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Post by MattDamonSpace » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 8:53 AM UTC

hegelguy wrote: post #4

Meh - these icons were bad, but I don't see the disaster

Dead canary

Re: Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items

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Post by torben-friis » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC

hegelguy wrote: post #4

Meh - these icons were bad, but I don't see the disaster

It was death by a thousand cuts. I am not a designer and Tahoe bothered me enough that, after trying it at work, I've been actively stopping my personal Mac to update, and it was a factor in moving to android.

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Post by triyambakam » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 8:55 AM UTC

This is also what's annoying with most model generated artifacts. They want every bullet point with an emoji. Even worse is an HTML artifact will be littered with chips/pill style "informative" boxes. So much useless distraction. I need something fine tuned by Tufte

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Post by xdennis » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 9:01 AM UTC

hegelguy wrote: post #4

Meh - these icons were bad, but I don't see the disaster

You have to make accommodation for designers, that's simply their language. If something is misaligned by 1 pixel, it's not an annoyance, it's a catastrophe.

The icons were bad, but the real issue with the new theme is the waste of space and wasting time computing transparencies.

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Post by rsynnott » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 9:02 AM UTC

Aw. I may have been the only one, but I kind of liked those.