Re:Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
by marionauta on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:37AM
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What I do is create a symbolic link to the "Developer" folder called "src". Both folders have the custom icon, and I can `cd src/project`!
> Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed.
For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in:
chflags hidden ~/Music
Still available in the shell or in the Finder with the ⇧⌘. shortcut but out of the way in normal use. Return to normal with the flag nohidden. Although Documents and Desktop seem to be a special case because of the iCloud shenanigans. I seem to have hidden them in the past, but can’t unhide them. :/Where do you keep your music?
Who keeps music?
There’s dozens of us
Re:Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
by jrochkind1 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:52AM
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me too! we should all meet for a beer sometime.
> For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in:
> chflags hidden ~/Music
I sort of do the opposite. I hide any folders I add to the home directory
chflags hidden ~/bin
chflags hidden ~/Applications
chflags hidden ~/sandbox
so that in the unlikely event anyone sees my home directory, there is absolutely nothing interesting about it. "This looks like a clean install. Nothing to see here."
I usually call that directory just "dev", and use lowercase names for all custom directories so zsh completion actually works.