Scripted icon replacement

[brandondrew]

😻

Wow! These icons are infinitely better than the default Kitty icon! I can't believe the Kitty project hasn't adopted one of these as its default!

The only improvement I can think of is providing a way to update the Kitty icon entirely from a shell. Is that possible?

[DinkDonk]

Thank you for the compliment!
Sure, there's a way to update the icon from the console.
The icon is just a file living inside the directory structure of the application.

You could do it by copying the new icon like this:

cp kitty-dark.icns /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Resources/kitty.icns

Then delete the icon cache and restart Dock:

rm /var/folders/*/*/*/com.apple.dock.iconcache; killall Dock

[brandondrew]

Thanks, but I was hoping for something that does everything.

This is off the top of my head, totally untested, but I envision it being something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

(
  cd /tmp
  git clone git@github.com:DinkDonk/kitty-icon.git
  cd kitty-icon
  cp kitty-dark.icns /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Resources/kitty.icns
  rm /var/folders/*/*/*/com.apple.dock.iconcache; killall Dock
  cd ..
)

The reason for scripting it is because the icon is lost every time Kitty is updated, so manual steps become more tedious everything they must be carried out.

[DinkDonk]

The scripted approach mentioned above will not work in later versions of macOS. The only known way to do it from the terminal is through the third party script/application fileicon, which can be installed via homebrew