Steve Troughton-SmithHere's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:
defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO
It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize
/cc @gruber
Machiel@stroughtonsmith @gruber so much cleaner love it
NMDoernerFINALLY!
Thank you!
That is the only way to use the main menu in #macOS 26 "BrokenGlass"!
What a mess that version is, crazy really.
Captain Salem@stroughtonsmith @gruber Thank you. Still hate Tahoe though but this helps.
Dmian 🇪🇺@stroughtonsmith Can't thank you enough... 🙇♂️
olof hennig@stroughtonsmith @gruber wonderful. If only they could bring back dock pinning.
QuarterSwede@stroughtonsmith @gruber Much less visually overloaded and just plain easier/quicker to scan.
John Gruber@stroughtonsmith How in the world did this go undiscovered until now?
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ben
Patrick Seemann@stroughtonsmith @gruber awesome.
PS: Some applications seem to be unimpressed by this, e.g. iTerm.
gcanyon@stroughtonsmith @gruber Doesn't seem to have an effect on Safari? So far everything else works.
Stefan Hecht
Chris Messina@stroughtonsmith @gruber just added a script to Raycast so you can toggle your menu icons at will!
Gregory@stroughtonsmith @gruber heh, another case of Apple engineer rebellion. I like it. The previous one was where you could bring back the sensible (pre-Big Sur) layout of NSAlerts with a defaults write command. They did remove it eventually.
(I myself am staying on Sonoma for now)
enMTW@stroughtonsmith do you have a collection of 'fix Tahoe' defaults writes (and things like that)?