Daring Fireball‘Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus
Mike Dolan@daringfireball Where's ResEdit when you need it?
Rachel Greenham@daringfireball read those articles today, and right afterwards ripped the menu icons out of my WIP. I'd been dutifully adding them since Tahoe, and being frustrated at the effort of finding useful and distinct and consistent icons for all of them... and realising i was probably putting more effort into it than *apple* are with their own apps... it broke me. fuck it, they're out.
what if all third party apps eschewed them? :-)
Delric@StrangeNoises @daringfireball then they will have greater usability than the OS. sounds good to me
@delric @daringfireball does instantly look better, yes.
Elliot Shank@daringfireball Thoughts on word choice: “… decided not to upgrade…”
"Upgrade" implies new /and/ better, which you find questionable.
"Update” just implies newer without judgment of quality.
In the past several years, I use “update" a lot more and “upgrade" only sparingly.
Arjan Bos@daringfireball And the keyboard shortcuts are still greyed out. It used to be that greyed out in the menu indicated that it was inactive, but the keyboard shortcuts do work. It’s a mess 🤷♂️
Graham DobieThe folks at @ia wrote about this back in 2016, also prompted by Apple’s design decisions.
https://ia.net/topics/on-icons
They even made an icon-zapping space invader game, which is still available!
Martin the paranoid android