1. Forum
  2. USENET
  3. uk.comp.sys.mac

  • Tahoe custom folder icon irritation - no sidebar

    From Ian McCall@ian@eruvia.org to uk.comp.sys.mac on Mon Oct 27 16:24:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.comp.sys.mac

    I like custom folder icons - IrCOve used them right the way back to Custom Folder Icon Maker for System 7. But this Lion-hangover of a sidebar in Finder is depressing.

    Pre-Lion, the sidebar was colourful and honoured your labels etc.. Post-macOS Funereal Edition (aka Lion), everything is monotone and dull and miserable. TahoerCOs label colours or custom folder icons arenrCOt honoured in the sidebar, and since thatrCOs 90% of how I interact with them...theyrCOre kind of useless to me.

    Annoying. It wouldnrCOt be -so- bad if developers didnrCOt treat ~/Documents as their personal playground rather than a place to store -documents- (as opposed to their support files, which should be in ~/Library/Application Support), because then I might navigate the documents folder normally and still see the icons. But the utter mess devs make of it means thatrCOs not really feasible and I pin folders I want to reach quickly to the sidebar.

    Bah. Feature request submitted, for all the progress it will make.


    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ian McCall@ian@eruvia.org to uk.comp.sys.mac on Mon Oct 27 16:28:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.comp.sys.mac

    On 27 Oct 2025, Ian McCall wrote
    (in article<0001HW.2EAFD43E0001C3A4309BE238F@news.individual.net>):

    Annoying. It wouldnrCOt be -so- bad if developers didnrCOt treat ~/Documents as their personal playground...
    Just followed up on that and did a line count from Terminal. I have 53
    entries in ~/Documents (be they files or folders). Of those 53, -8- are how many I put there as opposed to some random application. So 85% of the
    contents of Documents is just garbage that should be in Application Support.

    Cheers,
    Ian


    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2