iconset

A nifty command line tool to manage macOS icons

iconset is a new command line tool for macOS that allows you to change icons for macOS apps (excluding system ones of course).
It is still in its early stages and as time goes on, more customization schemes will be arriving with later releases.

Installing

In the future, I plan to set this up on brew, but for now the following command should work:
curl https://github.com/tale/iconset/releases/download/v0.2-beta/iconset -Lo /usr/local/bin/iconset
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/iconset

Usage

Coming soon, for now just reference them by running iconset --help

Current Options

• Specifying an icon and an application file to theme
  
• Specifying the directory where Applications are stored (defaults to /Applications)
  
• Specifying a folder of .icns files who's names match their respective icons
  
• Reverting an icon by supplying a folder of .icns or the path to a .app
  

Coming Soon

• Advanced manifest file which lets you map .icns files to .app files directly
  
• Recursive directory search for applications and icons
  
• Accompanying status bar app for macOS with automation and easy config UI
  

Building

The project is an SPM Package that requires Xcode 13 and Swift 5.5.
Run swift build --disable-sandbox in the project root to build a debug binary.
For release binaries, instead run swift build -c release --arch arm64 --arch x86_64 --disable-sandbox in the project root
Currently, the in-app Xcode builds are sandbox enforced, potentially breaking iconset's access to certain files.