Devolfamily

english post: http://t.ecksdee.org/post/19001860
japanese source: http://optica-optima.blogspot.com/search/label/DRAWERSicon
alternate download: http://www.geocities.jp/chy065/

I’m documenting this and mirroring the files here for archeological purposes. Stacks are neat (somewhat) but what’s kept them from being useful for me is that I can’t tell what stack is what since the icon is replaced with the icon of the last item modified. Or how ever you have it sorted. Which often ends up being a generic dmg or folder icon. Bad UI. Until a UI change takes place, here’s a way to change the stack icon and keep it displayed in the dock along with the stack overly icons they created. Before and after shot of stacks in the dock to better explain what I’m talking about. Hopefully more people will start creating stack icons.

The folder icons should be ready to go; just mount the dmg, drag whatever icon you want into the stack and then sorty by date modified. If it’s not working, the mechanics behind it is using touch to set the modified date out into the future.

Open terminal: (change ” Downloads ” to be the app name of the icon you selected.)

cd ~/Downloads
touch -mt 202001010101.01 " Downloads "

ctrl-click/right-click the stack and then sort by: date modified. Now you’ve got easily recognizable stacks.

I don’t know, and didn’t check, on how the touch time is formatted. According the post the file modified date is set to January 1st, 2020, so I’d have to assume that it’s yyyymmddhhmm.ss; please don’t tell me you expect to still be using this hack, in os x 10.5, in the year 2020.

local download links for overlay icon files:
DRAWERS icon #1 (2.7MB)
DRAWERS icon #2 (2.8MB)
DRAWERS icon FROST #1 (4.7MB)
DRAWERS icon FROST #2(4.6MB)