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Give Your Prism App A Custom Icon

Currently when you create a new app with Prism, it doesn’t let you give it a custom icon as with Fluid. Well, it’s not a difficult thing to do. You’ll need an ICNS icon. If you don’t have one, you can easily create one from an image using Img2icns.

Step 1:  Create your web app. In this tutorial, I’ll be using Gmail.

Create Prism App

You now got your Gmail Prism launcher on the desktop.

Gmail Launcher

Step 2:  We need to edit the package contents to replace the default icon.

Show Package Contents

Step 3:  Browse to the Resources folder where you’ll find an app.icns icon.

Resources Folder

Step 4:  Now take your application icon and rename it to app.icns.

Gmail Icon

Step 5:  Drop it into the Resources folder

Resources Folder

Step 6: Close the finder and your done!

 Gmail Launcher With Icon