Retro-Quicksilver: Get the old icon back
Some people like the new Quicksilver Menubar icon, others don’t like it at all. They find it too similar to the Spotlight icon or just not as groovy as the old one, which is the astrological symbol for the planet Mercury 
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Help is at hand. You can get the old icon in a zip file from the Blacktree site.
Then Command-Click (or right-click) on Quicksilver in your Applications folder and select “Show Package Contents” from the Contextual menu.
Navigate to the Contents > Resources folder and drop in the contents of the zip file.
If you are a die-hard retro Quicksilver type, I would save the icons somewhere as I imagine that each subsequent release will overwrite the contents of the Resources folder.
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October 11th, 2006 at 3:51 am
I’ve never understood why people have the menu bar icon turned on in the first place? Isn’t the whole point of QS to use the keyboard rather than the mouse? You can bring up the menu from within the QS command window if you need it in a pinch, but honestly I never use it.
October 11th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
This is great, thanks! I’m a chemist, so I like the old icon — it’s also the old alchemy symbol for mercury (the element).
@nick… I prefer to keep the menu bar icon to remind me that it’s running. It’s extremely disconcerting to try using the keyboard only to find out it quit or crashed.
I also use the menu as a way to tell people about the program. Otherwise they just think I’m performing magic. ;-)