For anyone else confused by the version number bump from 15 to 26, apparently Apple announced they are moving to version numbers that reflect the year _after_ the release date similar to car model years. This change feels odd to me, but I can't put my finger on why.

What's the icon beside Things?

In the very same image, the trash can icon is still oddly shaped. So maybe the Things icon is a bug or an easily fixable peculiarity (like an aspect ratio change).

Update: The article goes on to address exactly what I mentioned. It’s a change in specs, one that is easily fixable. It’s all good folks, no need to freak out.

> developers can still display a custom-shaped icon in the Dock by setting a view on

I suspect Apple won't approve this for apps distributed through the App Store, though, right? Not that many apps distribute through the app store on Mac in the first place.

One small cut, but one edging so so close to the line of death.

Who the *fuck* does Apple think they are forcing app icons provided by the developer into a specific shape? Or applying some weird ugly "glass" filter on it? Without permission from the user?

Hey Alan Dye, take a chill pill man. It's not your computer once I buy it.

Blows my mind how slow OSX still is, there is perceptible lag in almost every interaction during the gif in the blog post. Opening the "properties" dialog looks like it takes > 1 second. It's 2025, we have amazing processors, why is this software still so bad.

Is anyone asking for Apple to do this? I feel like this can only be perceived as a change for the worse.

> Part of the Mac’s soul was in its expressive, varied app icons

Hasn't that been a thing of the past for a while now?

I just had to double-check my dock to even find a non-squircle icon, and there's exactly one in mine: Spotify. (Two if we count "Disk Utility", which has a disk icon overlaid at the bottom right but is otherwise a squircle; three if we count "Activity Monitor", which shows a CPU histogram.)

I agree that it's not a great change. In my view, it makes app icons much harder to distinguish by shape alone, and increases reliance on color (which, at least on iOS, I don't have displayed anymore on most of my home screen themes).

The problem with OPs method is if the package gets updated, the icns file will get deleted, so you have to replace the icns file every time the app updates.

MacOS is unusable to me now. I had to switch back to Windows. There is something about the iOS aesthetic on MacOS that looks like they just smeared Vaseline all over everything and this new glass design doesn't help.

Android started doing the same thing to app icons many years ago, and I hate it. Luckily there's custom icon packs that help solve this but it's annoying to figure out how to set up on each new phone. Increasingly UI teams seem to be stopping developing interfaces for humans. Same has e.g. happened to icons in IntelljiJ IDEA, now only usable with icon pack plugins. All these UI teams need to put on mandatory HCI courses or fired.