{"id":126,"date":"2009-08-26T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2011-11-04T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:56:18","slug":"a-windows-feature-i-wish-apple-hadnt-copied-for-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"A Windows &#8220;Feature&#8221; I Wish Apple Hadn&#8217;t Copied For Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Microsoft Windows (all versions), I always found it annoying and disconcerting to see generic icons in Windows Explorer one moment replaced by official\/pretty icons the next when starting up or first opening an Explorer window. \u00a0It just enforced the &#8220;lipstick on a pig&#8221; feeling you sometimes got in Windows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, Snow Leopard 10.6.0 is doing it now. \u00a0And does it a lot. \u00a0At first I thought it was a caching issue but it&#8217;s not. And in the screenshot accompanying this post two of the icons never switched over (Address Book.app and Airfoil.app) until I went to a different directory and came back to \/Applications. \u00a0This must be a side affect of rewriting the Finder. \u00a0It&#8217;s sloppy and doesn&#8217;t give me a &#8220;rock solid&#8221; feel like 10.5.x (and before) where you never saw this happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-135\" title=\"Icon Redraw in Snow Leaopard\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/icon_redraw_sl1.png\" alt=\"Icon Redraw in Snow Leaopard\" width=\"562\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/icon_redraw_sl1.png 562w, https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/icon_redraw_sl1-299x272.png 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Microsoft Windows (all versions), I always found it annoying and disconcerting to see generic icons in Windows Explorer one moment replaced by official\/pretty icons the next when starting up or first opening an Explorer window. \u00a0It just enforced the &#8220;lipstick on a pig&#8221; feeling you sometimes got in Windows. Well, Snow Leopard 10.6.0 is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Windows &#8220;Feature&#8221; I Wish Apple Hadn&#8217;t Copied For Snow Leopard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os-x","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}