Custom Atom Icon with Packages

#1

Is there a way to customize the Atom icon with a package? I created this icon but I can’t find a way to distribute it as a package.

App Replacement Icon - Dark
#2

I don’t have an answer to your question (my guess is that it’s not possible), but damn, that’s a beautiful icon.

#3

Thanks! I figured it wouldn’t be possible, but I thought I’d ask, if for no other reason than someone might think to implement it.

Enjoy the icon!

#4

This is a far better icon than the current one, kudos. I also agree that it should be possible to allow for certain icons somehow if it’s at all possible.

#5

Thanks, I figure that the one they have now is just for beta, but I could be wrong. GitHub is usually pretty good about polishing their software.

#6

I’m not too familiar with the internals of packages, but I assume you could make a call to overwrite the icon within the .app folder (of course, you should back up the old one for the user first!)

Things to take into consideration would be: does Atom have a disable hook that you can tie into to remove the icon, or during uninstallation?

#7

That’s an interesting thought. Surprisingly, when I was installing the icon for my self, replacing the .icns file did nothing. It was only when I used the get info window that it worked.

But your idea reminded me of AppleScript which might work to replace the icon…

#8

Did you try restarting the computer? I think sometimes the icon files are cached… for example when I enabled dynamic icons in Adium, they didn’t work fully properly until I rebooted, iirc.

#9

I’ll try that. Killing the system UI server might work as well: killall SystemUIServer

#10

Out of curiosity, did you have any luck?

#11

Restarting did work, killall SystemUIServer did not. By far the most effective way seems to be to drag the .icns file on to the Application’s get info icon.

#12

from a technical perspective i’m not sure this CAN be done…

#13

You mean with the set of tools that we have available to us currently with the atom packages, right? I’ve definitely seen apps replace their icon programatically. Adium is a great example of this.

#14

I think you have to kill / restart the dock to update the icon of the current running application

#15

What about just in the Finder? I have the app closed and not in the dock when I’m updating the icon.

#16

for finder icons are cached in a file … you can delete it but you need root permissions.

you should be able to find the file using

find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache
#17

Hey, pretty cool. I’ll try to experiment around with this. No promises, but I might be able to get an installer going.

#19

This is a good idea. Can’t say when I’ll get around to it…

#21

Added the document icon. You can see it here: https://github.com/edwardloveall/atom-replacement-icon/commit/2c2770e305b95162c8c4e9b46dbf1cc050a346bb