[HN Gopher] Show HN: Replacicon - Create and customize app icons...
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       Show HN: Replacicon - Create and customize app icons on macOS
        
       Author : simonp9
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-11-03 20:34 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | tolerance wrote:
       | This is great. Good job! Great looking website! Six bucks is
       | tolerable for this utility. I would be more willing to purchase
       | myself if the app was actually named "Replacion" like I thought
       | it was.
        
       | pietz wrote:
       | Can I also use this to create icons for my own apps?
        
       | mh- wrote:
       | _(The following isn 't a criticism, just questions that came to
       | mind for me. Looks like a neat app at a reasonable price.)_
       | 
       | I'd recommend adding an FAQ.
       | 
       | First train of thought that comes to mind for me (being vaguely
       | familiar with macOS-isms) is how does it achieve the icon swap
       | mechanically? Does it "tamper" with the contents of the package
       | in /Applications?
       | 
       | Assuming yes: are there apps that react negatively to this? Does
       | this prevent you from doing it to system/bundled apps, like
       | Finder or Notes? Does the app itself require disabling SIP or
       | whatever it's called nowadays?
       | 
       | On that note, what OS versions _does_ it support?
        
         | danpalmer wrote:
         | Given the fact that most apps are signed and won't run if the
         | signatures don't match, and that macOS has had built-in user
         | customisation of icons without tampering for many years, I
         | think it's safe to assume it's using the latter.
        
           | mh- wrote:
           | Probably? I've never customized icons on macOS. But this from
           | their site made me curious:
           | 
           |  _> Replacicon even watches for app updates in the background
           | so your customized icons are not lost across app updates._
           | 
           | edit: a quick google suggests this is just because some
           | application updaters remove the old package entirely, so I
           | guess it's what you said.
        
             | danpalmer wrote:
             | Yeah this is exactly it. When you delete and replace the
             | app bundle macOS loses that customisation (understandably)
             | and therefore you have to re-apply the customisation. This
             | is why user customisation never works particularly well.
        
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