Learn more at http://urinx.github.io/app/iconista/
The best & most beautiful way to set your Mac OS X beautiful!
It's easy, save, and fast tool that helps you to change your Mac Os X default applications icon, for it looks like horrible and ugly.
Which can do the followings:
- Replace the system applications icon with default themes
- Replace the some third part apps icon
- Set the files or folders icon
- Set the wallpaper
In OS X 10.11(El Capitan) and up, Apple add a new 'Rootless' feature -- System Integrity Protection(SIP).
SIP is protecting the core apps which OS X installs into Applications and Applications Utilities. This means it will no longer be possible to change the applications which OS X installs, even from the command line when using root privileges.
You can find all protected directories in /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf
So we cant change the icon of core apps in Applications and Applications Utilities.
Or:
If you really want to change the default apps icon, you can disable SIP. Currently this requires rebooting into recovery mode and running the command
csrutil disable.
You can download it here or just clone the soure code and then unzip it.
git clone https://github.com/Urinx/Iconista/archive/master.zip
Go to build folder, and Iconista is the main program.
cd build/
sudo ./Iconista
That's all, it's very easy, right?
For help, you can do this:
sudo ./Iconista -h
Install the default icon theme:
sudo ./Iconista -i
Restore the origin system icon:
sudo ./Iconista -r
Delete/hide the app in Launchpad:
sudo ./Iconista -d "Safari"
Set icon for file or folder:
sudo ./Iconista -f /path/to/file /path/to/icon
Install the specified theme:
sudo ./Iconista -s "theme_name"
If you disable the SIP, you can change the icon of apps which OS X installs:
sudo ./Iconista -i -rootless
There is only a default theme for now, but more themes will be added in the furtrue.
The icon of default theme is come from BlackVariant (Patrick), free for non-commercial use.
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