Instruction to compile .car file

[dangh]

Hello,

Thank you for your awesome work. It was working perfectly on macOS 10.15 but unfortunately the provided .car stopped working on macOS 10.15.1

Can you point me to a resource/tutorial on how to modify the .car file?

Cheers!

[tsujp]

@dangh sorry for the long reply mate, I missed this somehow.

I cannot make a more detailed guide right now but I used Asset Catalog Tinkerer.app from https://github.com/insidegui/AssetCatalogTinkerer to edit the appropriate .car files within the SystemAppearance.bundle package. There are instructions on their repo on how to use the tool and the paths to the file, and the path within that package is the directory structure of this repo.

In summary though the path you're interested in, as a baseline, is /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources. You can reach that by pressing CMD + SHIFT + G on a Finder window – including the dropdown on dialogue boxes such as "Open..." or "Save..." for instance as they are of course Finder windows too. Or you can just cd there and open -a Finder . to open the directory since the tool is GUI only.

Once there you'll see a whole bunch of .car files, back to the directory structure of this repo you'll see a DarkAquaAppearance.car file, open that with Asset Catalog Tinkerer. On the list of assets you can edit you should edit the WindowFrame_WindowShapeEdges group because the path in this repo is DarkAquaAppearance/WindowFrame_WindowShapeEdges/.

Let me know how you go.

[tsujp]

Closing as it's been a few months. If there is a follow up just comment and we can further discuss and I can reopen the issue.

[dortamiguel]

How I can edit the car file with AssetCatalogTinkerer?

I can only drag and drop images outside of the app

[tsujp]

@ellipticaldoor You'll have to export the images, edit them, then re-import them. AssetCatalogTinkerer is just for getting the images in and out, any edits occur in either Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, or whatever other editor you want to use.

[dortamiguel]

but how you re-import? I want to use the images you have in the repo, but I can't find how to place them

[dortamiguel]

In the end used ThemeEngine from latest master to edit the file, now I have sharp corners :)

[dortamiguel]

Do you know how to remove the white border on the windows in dark mode too?

[CrisVM]

I just stumbled upon square-macos-windows and I love it! It's really awesome!

This should be the default, or at the very least be configurable in System Preferences.

It's a much needed fix when we have to use Mojave patcher and get all those glitchy window corners by default... (I'm using a 2011 MacBook Pro and Mojave doesn't support it officially)

It's a shame Spotlight doesn't take advantage of this fix... https://drive.google.com/open?id=12-X6c_XuZeR79xWnMbO5l_bhcmp9oy8w

Excellent job you've done! KUDOS!

[tsujp]

@ellipticaldoor the white border is a separate file which is hard to see in the list, it's a transparent single-pixel line which is applied to the edge of windows.

@CrisVM thanks mate!

What I am going to do I think is update this for the latest macOS and do all the possible themes, and see if I can get it working with Spotlight. I mainly use Linux nowadays and when I was on macOS I used Alfred instead of Spotlight but I do need to "complete" this repo as it were.

[dortamiguel]

@ellipticaldoor the white border is a separate file which is hard to see in the list, it's a transparent single-pixel line which is applied to the edge of windows.

@CrisVM thanks mate!

What I am going to do I think is update this for the latest macOS and do all the possible themes, and see if I can get it working with Spotlight. I mainly use Linux nowadays and when I was on macOS I used Alfred instead of Spotlight but I do need to "complete" this repo as it were.

oh nice! do you know which file is and how I can edit it?

[tsujp]

I forgot the name but I will find out later today/tomorrow.

[dortamiguel]

Thank you very much! I've been looking for this a long time

[dortamiguel]

I'm trying to find the file but not luck to the moment, do you remember any clue or file?

[kvndrsslr]

Hey guys, thanks @tsujp for your work! I discovered this a week ago as I also wanted to improve the look of my yabai setup. With Big Sur being announced with a complete UI redesign I was very annoyed as they made the corner radius even bigger.. So I went on a quest to bring square-corners to Big Sur and it worked! Its described in #2 and I will do a PR when Big Sur gets released. 🎉

[tsujp]

Sounds good mate @kvndrsslr

Sorry @ellipticaldoor I've been mucho busy lately, I'll get on this this week so you have all the files. I cannot remember what it was called, but will re-find out shortly.

[dortamiguel]

Thanks @tsujp

[CrisVM]

I was just wondering if it's possible to make menus' corners to be square as well... What do you think? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RSYaYoHnPgEGI7Mx9J-W0o9TNeUpzB2F/view?usp=sharing

Cheers.

[tsujp]

Probably. I can get round to that too, should be updating my machine to Catalina finally; had a lot of things to do recently so I've been putting it off.

[tsujp]

I am installing Big Sur right now and will be adding lots more to the repo either tonight (if all goes well) or very soon, I plan to only support Big Sur and onwards since thats the latest macOS coming out. Let's do this!

I've locked this issue only to prevent it becoming a "chat-like" issue, please make a new one with a defined scope since we drifted from the topic of instructions for creating .car files here.