That Yosemite Finder Icon, tho!

[Aylan]

Can someone confirm is you’re still able to change finder and thrash can icons via the resource folders?

This had me go all nostalgic for the days when you could use ResEdit to make System 7 look like Mac OS 8!

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Also, makes me appreciate Apple design cleverness. Call me a fanboy if you like but I always geek out on the Mac OS releases. So far, Yosemite looks fantastic!

 

[sonicrobby]

Thanks for sharing! Wow, looks like a lot of users are still artistically challenged. Time to bust out Photoshop.

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I prefer the one from Apples website

 

[xraydoc]

Personally I think it's time to retire the smily Finder icon.

 

[paronga]

Personally I think it's time to retire the smily Finder icon.

i reckon it'll be 50 years old when it gets retired

 

[Señor]

In my opinion, I think it looks wonderful.

Change is natural, people. Stop trying to make excuses to bash the flat look of iOS 7 already. It seriously makes you guys sound like babies.

The only real issue for me is the "nose" line should be slightly thicker.

 

[Astroboy907]

Personally I think it's time to retire the smily Finder icon.

BLASPHEMY! You shall incur the wrath of Steve Jobs and a million fanboys, as well as the power of a million suns!!! (and 64 bit desktop class architecture). He shall rise from his grave and hit thee with pings from the ever-remembering cloud! AND YOU WILL BE APPLE-JUICED!

Hey, don't say we didn't warn you

*with respects to Steve Jobs, he was a good man. Just poking a little fun here

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Personally I think it's time to retire the smily Finder icon.

I agree. I've never liked it and still doesn't. It seems out of place.

And now they've overhauled everything, why not the Finder icon too?

 

[iMacBooked]

That Yosemite Finder Icon, tho!

I agree. I've never liked it and still doesn't. It seems out of place.



And now they've overhauled everything, why not the Finder icon too?

No! That icon is part of the Apple tradition, I'm glad they didn't change it. Steve wouldn't have done that either.

 

[mmomega]

I don't really put that much thought into it. I just know this icon opens my finder, whether its a two-face icon or what have you.

I can't help but chuckle though when I think of the "mighty finder" icon singing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_uddKK3nmY&feature=kp
@ 1:50 in

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

No! That icon is part of the Apple tradition, I'm glad they didn't change it. Steve wouldn't have done that either.

There's not really anything left of Apple tradition, so why should it stay? THere are much more interesting and much more old school icons to use.

 

[maflynn]

I'm not really liking the newer one, the smile is too pronounced. Maybe I'm too hold school, but I do like the older one. The newer one in Yosemite just doesn't do it for me.

 

[iMacBooked]

There's not really anything left of Apple tradition, so why should it stay? THere are much more interesting and much more old school icons to use.

Well you're right about the fact that almost everything has changed. But to me that Finder icon still is the symbol of Macintosh in general, and it would surprise me if I would be the only one who thinks that way.

 

[mryingster]

I compiled All the icon variants I know of for comparison. I opted to use the icon from Apple's website rather than the one from the DP.

I prefer the one from Apple's website over the one that shipped in the Yosemite DP1 for four reasons:

1. Its less square
2. It has the darker separater between the face halves
3. There isn't so much of a gap between the eyes and the top of the head
4. The smile isn't so exaggerated

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

I compiled All the icon variants I know of for comparison. I opted to use the icon from Apple's website rather than the one from the DP.

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I prefer the one from Apple's website over the one that shipped in the Yosemite DP1 for four reasons:

1. Its less square
2. It has the darker separater between the face halves
3. There isn't so much of a gap between the eyes and the top of the head
4. The smile isn't so exaggerated

I agree. I think the DP1 version looks tacky and just... wrong. The website version looks much more like what the Finder icon is supposed to look like, only in a different color hue. I seriously hope Apple will decide to keep the website version, not the DP1 version. I have a bad feeling they'll decide the DP1 version is the one to keep, but I hope to be proven wrong!

 

[Alphabetize]

The first time I saw the new Finder icon, I thought it looked kind of strange. After having used the 10.10 Developer Preview for a while now, I really like the new Finder icon and I think it fits in well with the other redesigned icons. The old one looks, well, old now.

 

[Altemose]

Personally I think it's time to retire the smily Finder icon.

Then the Mac will be sad. At which point you will hear an error sound of tears and you can't get your Mac done.

If your Mac isn't showing a smile, then it must be sad. If it is sad it will bomb. If it bombs you can't get your work done. If you can't get your work done, you get fired. If you get fired you lose everything. If you lose everything, you end up on a city street in Miami with no recollection of what happened.

The general rule of thumb is to let the Finder smile as much as it wants.

BLASPHEMY! You shall incur the wrath of Steve Jobs and a million fanboys, as well as the power of a million suns!!! (and 64 bit desktop class architecture). He shall rise from his grave and hit thee with pings from the ever-remembering cloud! AND YOU WILL BE APPLE-JUICED!

Hey, don't say we didn't warn you

*with respects to Steve Jobs, he was a good man. Just poking a little fun here

Steve Jobs really did love that Finder icon. I love seeing the little smiling face. Though, every time I see someones screen shots I always think it smiles more on their computer, but that is just me. I could of sworn I saw a tear in the Finder's eye on October 5, 2011.

 

[Intelligent]

Thanks for sharing! Wow, looks like a lot of users are still artistically challenged. Time to bust out Photoshop.

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How come EVERYONE forgets this one?

 

[Intelligent]

i just noticed that When you install Yosemite on the "Send information from another mac" section the apple.com/osx/preview finder icon is there!!

 

[iGrouch]

Feedback!!!

I am on the side of keeping the old finder icon as it stands graphically, perhaps with the new saturation to give some change of progressing it to fit with the new look.

As somebody mentioned, the dividing line makes that icon distinctive. It is a primary element to the Finder icon. Its calligraphic nature ties in with the importance of the graphic line and the importance of the graphic quality of calligraphy and text in the Mac experience.

It is represents the defining difference between Mac and Windows; the attention to detail compared to the disregard for text and its generally bad rendering on Windows.

There is also the clever symbolism of the icon with many interpretations, its connection to Cubism.

The current icon doesn't consider these historical links and the history and tradition of the Mac, an iconic entity in itself. Instead the new Finder icon is sliding into the domain of a common UI bauble (think Android). The current version retains the balance of fun and gravitas at the same time.

People should feedback their opinions to Apple.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ (Use the current Mavericks channel under products)

And if you are on the developer program, you should have other channels to contact Apple.

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I am on the side of keeping the old finder icon as it stands graphically, perhaps with the new saturation to give some change of progressing it to fit with the new look.

As somebody mentioned, the dividing line makes that icon distinctive. It is a primary element to the Finder icon. Its calligraphic nature ties in with the importance of the graphic line and the importance of the graphic quality of calligraphy and text in the Mac experience.

It is represents the defining difference between Mac and Windows; the attention to detail compared to the disregard for text and its generally bad rendering on Windows.

There is also the clever symbolism of the icon with many interpretations, its connection to Cubism.

The current icon doesn't consider these historical links and the history and tradition of the Mac, an iconic entity in itself. Instead the new Finder icon is sliding into the domain of a common UI bauble (think Android). The current version retains the balance of fun and gravitas at the same time.

People should feedback their opinions to Apple.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ (Use the current Mavericks channel under products)

And if you are on the developer program, you should have other channels to contact Apple.