On 5/6/03 21:36, Tony LaFemina wrote >Bill Rising wrote: > >> >>Application icons can be changed in the same way in OS X as in the Mac >>OS, by copying and pasting in the Get Info window. This doesn't change >>the appearance of the icon in the dock, though, because the dock icon >>because the dock icon is (most likely) stored in a .icns file (the >>equivalent to a icns resource in the Mac OS). >> >>Actually, poking around I seem to see the following: perhaps the mystery >>green icon is located at >> >>/Applications/iTunes/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper/Contents/Resources/iTu >>nesHelper.icns >> >>so replacing the icons here might change the appearance in the dock. >>Might not, too. I don't want to fiddle with it, but perhaps it would work. >> >>Bill >> >> >OK! How about this? Paste the purple icon into the application's info >window, then rebuild the desktop. Maybe that will update any .icns files >in the system.
I don't think that OS X has something similar to rebuilding the desktop. As close as it comes (as far as I can tell) is the prebinding process, which merely allows the system to find applications more easily (I think). Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
