Replacing the Tweetie Icon with Something More Elegant

Tweetie Old Icon

Tweetie Old Icon

Tweetie New Icon

Tweetie New Icon

Everything about tweetie is beautiful, well except the Dock icon. I can’t understand how the designers of such a beautifully crafted application made such a pedestrian icon. Maybe in their eyes it is really good but quite a few did not like it. (Most don’t like the idea of a dock icon for tweetie! ). Thankfully, Marcelo Marfil, a Graphic and Interface designer decided to apply his talent into creating better tweetie icons.

Marcelo has made available the tweetie icons to the public and if you like it, you can replace the default tweetie icon with one of those.

First, download the icons from Marcelo’s site (Click on the tweetie icon). The unzipped folder of the tweetie icons will be called Tweetie X and it will have two folders inside it. ICNS and iContainer. Open the ICNS folder. You should see 4 files. These are the icons  and you can open them using Preview.

Now go tour Applications folder where you have installed Tweetie. Select Tweetie and do a right-click or a ctrl-click. In the menu just opened, select “Show Package Contents”. A new Finder window should now open up with the folder Contents.  Open the folder Resources inside Contents.

Quit tweetie. Select the icon you want from the ICNS folder and rename it to Tweetie.icns. Copy this file into the Resources folder. You should get a warning about the file being already present. Choose the Replace option. When you start tweetie next, you should have a brand new icon.

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Lucky on June 13, 2009

First row:
doc icon ≠ Dock icon

manu on June 13, 2009

Fixed. Thanks :)

Lucky on June 13, 2009

Also “Dock” is a name of a feature in OS X. I think it’s correct to write it with a capital D.

Other uses of “dock” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock

Lucky on June 13, 2009

Oh and it takes so long for your blog to accept a comment. See if it’s an issue somewhere. I don’t like to wait more than 5 seconds to see the page refresh. I don’t think you have a traffic issue.

Lucky on June 13, 2009

The above comment took 36 seconds to reload the page. Anything else on the Internet is pretty much instant on my connection.

manu on June 13, 2009

@lucky: I’m not experiencing any load issues.. is the page loading fast for you ? Are you a web developer. If you are, can you do me a favour and send me a screenshot of the firebug net panel output.

Lucky on June 13, 2009

Your site loads instantly. Page loading is fine.

I’m talking about posing comments. After clicking the “submit” button, it takes so much for the page to reload, half a minute. That’s like forever in Internet terms. Maybe it’s a bug somewhere in the way comments are processed or registered in your database.

I know a little about web development, but nothing much. Just a little html, css and js. Enough to understand how the web works ;))

Vijay Dev on June 15, 2009

Good tip. Worked neatly..

anne on June 24, 2009

thank you! love my new tweetie icon.

scott55 on July 12, 2009

I don't think ripping off the iChat icon is any better than what the folks at Tweetie originally came up with. Personally I like how tweet bubble from the ui became the main shape of the icon.

ismalls on August 25, 2009

This didn't work. It just a file icon for an .icns file.

William Cody Winter on December 12, 2009

Works Great!

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