"ed" <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> stated in post
048f762c-6f04-4e65-b15a-a1f94caa5ce3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on
5/13/08
10:40 PM:
> On May 13, 10:36 pm, George Graves <gmgrav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 22:27:46 -0700, Alan Baker wrote
>> (in article
>> <alangbaker-932D11.22274613052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>>
>>> In article <news-0BDB79.20313913052...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> ed <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>> alrighty, this is probably something simple i'm missing, but how do i
>>>> change an application's icon? i copied a picture to the clipboard,
did
>>>> a cmd-i on the app, click the icon in the top left, and try to paste
it
>>>> in, but it won't.
>>
>>>> here's what my screen looks like so you can see if i'm missing
>>>> something...
>>>> http://www.atwistedweb.com/DOCS/changeIcon.png
>>
>>> My guess would be permissions, ed.
>>
>> My experience is that apps, in general, won't let users change the
icon. I've
>> wanted to change the stupid icons that Adobe exchanged for the useful
ones
>> they used to have in their creative suite ever since it came out, and
it
>> won't let me. I mean, A butterfly, a feather, and a flower. Yeah, they
sure
>> tell me which application is which all right! Dumb!
>
> i took owner****p of the app (i used the command line- chown username
> appname; don't know if there's another way to do it in os x), then
> change the icon. i changed owner****p back to root afterwards.
>
Another way to do it would be to use the Get-info dialog you were in:
<http://tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/owner.png>
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