r/MacOS • • 20h ago

News New .pkg icon

I don't know, in my opinion it looks bad, mainly on a white background. What's the deal with whitening out icons lately? 😭

EDIT: I arrived to point out a poor UI/UX design, I am staying for the “It reminds me of…” by the community lmao

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u/jacka_for-research 20h ago

Looks like a box of deodorant.

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u/Cheezton 20h ago

L M F A O

I CANNOT UNSEE IT NOW

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u/incongruity 16h ago

The old one was a stick of butter. The new one reads better to me, at least.

Not kidding, it took me a few years to see it as a box. I was always really confused about the butter icon.

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u/Jazman2k 18h ago

I thought about box of jelly. :D

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u/dbm5 20h ago

Totally missed that, but indeed you're right. I liked the old one better too, though I won't lose any sleep over this.

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u/Cheezton 20h ago

Yeahhh, agree, I mean, it's not like we see .pkg files daily to be bothered by it haha. It's just so random lol. Like, out of everything they could have done, someone just woke up and was like "Hmm, I am gonna update the .pkg icon" xD

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u/KillerMikeU 15h ago

Temu Dropbox

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u/Kamino_Ramos 20h ago

It's terrible. Why do they need to change that anyway? Aren't there enough bugs that need to be fixed first?

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u/Cheezton 20h ago

⭐ Priorities ⭐ haha

It looks so bad in light mode, like honestly...

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u/hike_me 20h ago

The person that made the icon probably isn’t going to be fixing bugs

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u/humbuckaroo 19h ago

Everything is starting to look boring and hospital-like. Black on white Music, Blue on white package. Lame.

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u/Gabriel_Science 19h ago

White looks good… on hardware.

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u/jshell 20h ago

The war on color continues. In macOS 28 the inside part will also be white. :(

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u/headphonesXX 20h ago

the corner radius doesnt even match the box. what a downgrade

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u/heylesterco 19h ago

Apple always puts their products with rounded corner radii inside boxes with sharp corners.

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u/Maximum_Employer5580 14h ago

I'll never understand why technology companies can't just leave well enough alone. They changed the Music icon as well from red to white. Guess their software folks just sit in a room and change it just so they can justify their job.

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u/BohdanKoles 19h ago

Hate this primitive design language, with less and less details every year!

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u/GreatVedmedini 18h ago

Apple hired Peter Griffin as chief of UI/UX dept

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u/Alkumist 16h ago

I think they chose white because of all the white Apple device boxes, but I agree, I don’t like it being white

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u/Samtulp6 20h ago

I was so happy when Dye left Apple as I thought jt would mean the insane plunge in UI & UX would stop, but I was wrong.

Sadly the plunge is continuing. Apple music icon white a white squickcle with a black glyph, this shit, the oversized elements in all of MacOS…

I downgraded to Sequoia, and while the pre-Tahoe UI’s are still a bunch better, this is at least good enough.

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u/Emergency-Event4415 13h ago

Before doing anything, you should ask “why”. I don’t think anybody asked “why” when this change was suggested.

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u/JollyRoger8X 20h ago

You people get outraged at the stupidest shit. 🤣

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