[MlMt] Any tips how to get out of (icon) jail

[Henry Seiden]

It’s nice and quick. In the background of the .icn file, seems it squishes the black BG to 0 luminance value. Seems a more useful for these icons would be to show a growing when the app is running and will make a suggestion to Apple that that might be useful instead of the silly dot. I got the idea from an implementation in SpamSieve that does just that. So it is possible!

Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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On 23 Mar 2026, at 15:10, Luís Trevisan wrote:

> Hi Sebastian, hi Steve,
>
> Just wanted to chime in — I tried Sebastian's trick and it worked like a charm!
>
> For anyone still looking for a fix, the thread on the Renoise forum has a clear step-by-step.
>
> Thanks for sharing!
>
> Best regards
> Luís
>
> On 22 Mar 2026, at 12:34, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
>
>> I fixed it myself by using this trick:
>>
>>
>> forum.renoise.com
>>
>> macOS Tahoe - Quick Fix for Dock Icon
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>>
>>> Am 22.03.2026 um 12:08 schrieb Steve Hodgson <steve at shodgson.org.uk>:
>>
>>>
>>> Looking at my dock icons, MailMate is the only one that’s still in Tahoe’s so-called ‘icon jail’, where the app’s icon sits inside a grey frame.
>>
>>> I can understand this is maybe not top priority for Benny at the moment so I wondered has anyone created an alternative icon <https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/08/macos-tahoe-fix-gray-box-icons/> that could be used in the interim? I found one at <https://macosicons.com> but didn’t love it.
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>>> Steve
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