For OSX it was literally a free mechanism to add web sharing.Īs for the use case, in the classic MacOS days and even early days of OSX the system didn't ship with support for Windows file sharing. The Apache server with Rendezvous/Bonjour was basically the MacOS X implementation of the same. MacOS 9 had a personal web sharing feature. Bizarre that there's no UI for this, I would've expected a system icon selection popup at the very least. You need to open an icns file, hit the copy command, open a folder's properties and paste ( ). I'm a little confused though I've been using custom folder icons since at least Windows XP, surely you can just set a custom icon on your folders in macOS? I wouldn't want a clunky name like 'Developer ' in my home directory, 'Development' or 'Projects' would fit the context much better.Įdit: looks like you can. Plus, applications can register their own special panes if they wish, allowing you to use Windows Explorer as a front-end for your application. This can be quite useful as some of the hidden functionality includes an overview of many conntrol panel settings usually hidden deep within the directory structure.
This reminds me of the 'magical' CLSID folder names you can use in Windows to embed special folders in your filesystem.
