macOS Tahoe icons for every app on your Linux desktop, in light and dark, for KDE Plasma and GTK desktops (GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, ...).

MacOS-Like builds two icon themes, MacOS-Like-Light and MacOS-Like-Dark, from MacTahoe. Every tile gets the same shadow, edge and shade, the dark theme gets real dark tiles, and apps MacTahoe has no artwork for get a matching tile made from their own icon. MacTahoe comes with it, so there is nothing else to install.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Scrimas/MacOS-Like/main/install.sh | bash

It asks before installing the few packages it needs (Python 3 with Pillow, and rsvg-convert), builds both themes into ~/.local/share/icons in under a minute, offers to switch your icons, and adds the macos-like command. Add options after bash -s --: --light or --dark to switch without asking, --no-apply to leave your icons alone, --yes to answer yes to everything.

From a clone, ./install.sh does the same, using the clone.

Use

macos-like refresh          # after installing apps: gives them tiles
macos-like update           # get the latest MacOS-Like and rebuild
macos-like apply dark       # or light
macos-like folders purple   # blue green grey nord orange purple red yellow, '#rrggbb', matugen, reset
macos-like uninstall        # puts your previous icon theme back

folders matugen makes the folders follow your wallpaper's palette with matugen.

Customize

Settings live in ~/.config/macos-like and apply on the next macos-like refresh. Don't edit the themes themselves: every build starts them afresh.

• Your own artwork for an app: overrides.conf, lines like ryujinx=/usr/share/pixmaps/ryujinx.svg, where the name is the app's Icon= value (example).
• Keep an app's dark tile in the light theme: keep-dark.conf, one Icon= name per line (example).
• Other fallback themes for icons MacTahoe lacks entirely (default: the first of breeze-plus, breeze, Papirus and Adwaita you have): macos-like refresh -- --inherits-dark Papirus-Dark,hicolor (or --inherits-light).

Credits and license

Built on MacTahoe by vinceliuice (GPL-3.0), which ships unmodified in vendor/; prebuilt/ holds modified versions of its icons. Generated tiles use each app's own icon. MacOS-Like is GPL-3.0-or-later.

To move to a newer MacTahoe, change the commit pinned in tools/update-mactahoe.sh and run it. The images above come from python3 screenshots/render.py.