On 16 Dec 2025, at 8:12, Robert Schwalbe wrote:
> [...]
This has all gone off-topic for the list, please feel free to continue the
discussion privately. :-)
Thanks,
R.
>> Next up, the Disk Utility. Again, what in the world were you guys thinking?
>> My great grandpa has more life than that icon! If there is one thing I
>> really don't like, it is when Apple gets us used to seeing a particular
>> icon, and then they suddenly take it out from under our feet.
>>
>> Guys, the previous Disk Utility icon was great. It shows a hard drive with a
>> stethoscope. We've seen it for years. You look at that icon, and you
>> immediately know what it is and what it does.
>>
>> On the other hand, when I first saw the new Disk Utility in my Dock, my jaw
>> dropped! What is that ugly thing? What app does it even pertain to? Again,
>> major error! Please give us back the previous icon which at least made
>> visual sense.
>
> Please accept my apologizes for piling on a discussion concerning Apple's
> Disk Utility icon.
>
> My reaction was a litany of profanities worthy of being ravaged by
> cannibalistic humans infected by a mutated fungus in the genus Cordyceps
> ("The Last of Us" reference).
>
> I would be proud to put this 'artwork' on my refrigerator if it drawn by a
> pre-schooler brought home from school.
>
> I can only believe this was an Artificial Intelligence hallucination that
> crossed an engineer's desk and he/she was being funny (which it would have
> been), inserted into the code base fully expecting to be caught. Now it is
> the ugliest wart that ever appeared in an Apple Interface (public or private).
>
> I think I tried to replacing the icon via the Finder but failed. I am able
> replace some third party app icons for sentimental reason, so maybe I am just
> some weirdo. This new Disk Utility is just downright horribly ugly.
>
> If I ever figure out how to replace icons on Apple Installed apps, my .bashrc
> file will be entered into The International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
>
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