Launchpad Icon Size

Totally agree like many here, they were just about perfectly proportioned before now they look clumsy ! Definitely needs a slider to change the icon size and while their at it bring back the icon size slider in the finder the lion update from snow leopard has made a total mess of the finder, dare I say it, its worse than windows explorer and thats saying something.

"I just say that if Apple made the icons bigger, that change was made for a reason."

can you tell us what reason is that? couldn't find any...

Even in my tiny 11''air, the icons are ridiculously BIG!

hey, apple guys, give us control over our machines, please!

thanks for the solution!

i find it far too complicated and i think this is apple responsability so they should fix it. this details, like the horrible start up sound and these absurd icons are making me start to hate to use my mac.

There is in fact a way to get your Launchpad icons back to looking the way they did in 10.7.1

Go to Youtube and do a search for "Decrease Mac OS 10.7.2 Launchpad icons size"

It's not an easy fix. But the solution works. It involves copying the dock.app file (located within the package contents of your original mac OS X 10.7.0 Lion Installer file) into a location deep within your current installation's System folder.

The video is pretty easy to follow too. You will need to have "unpkg" installed though. It's freeware, so that's not too big of a dealbreaker! http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16357/unpkg

the icons are insanely large - i mean c'mon im not bling - this is totally ridiculous and its hurting my eyes - i shouldnt have run the update everything is ruined - for some reason my mac is also totally rejecting my ipad and sync is a major pain

we should be able to adjust the icon size similar to how it can be adjusted on the dock in system preferences

this is retarted and im not a child in 2nd grade - i WANT SMALLER ICONS!

oh wow thanks a bunch phew! even though its a major geek squad push to get it back to normal - i'm gonna go for it - can no longer withstand the attack of the large icons

aesthetics mean so much - its what the whole apple mac obsession is all about - how would steve jobs feel if i suddenly made the iphone a lot fatter than it is? somersaults in your grave buddy!

dont mess w my icons

Hey not sure if some must have found this already but felt that this will help all. Refer below link on how to reduce the icon size...

http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/19/change-launchpad-icon-size-large-to-small/

I like the big icons, they're easy to see and easy to navigate. As with all things new it always requiresadaptation. To start with a I hated the whole Lion set out but after a couple of weeks it's great. If you dont like the icons don't use the launchpad and just delete it from the dock - easy.

Remember when everybody loved BB and now they don't so much... anyway evolve or die nosaur.

Sorry to resurrect the dead, maybe Apple fixed this problem, but I cannot seem to find out how.

I Just got a macbook pro, and I love the idea of the launchpad. However, like most of the other people in this thread, I find the large icons distracting and impractical. I use my computer for some fun things, but mostly for writing papers and data analysis. What is the use of locking the size of these icons? An alphabetical list with a small icon next to it would work terrific. I cannot even use the launchpad, I am forced to open finder (a window), click 'applications' then scroll through everything (folders and all) to find the executable. Hence, the idea of the launchpad is wonderful, but the implementation is insidious.

Come-on, its not just 2nd grade children using these products. And I don't want to manipulate the system files to try to change cosmetic things like this, as others in this thread suggest.

Yes, i have indeed considered that, and no, i dont like having all those icons there. 2 clicks would be great: one to open a launchpad type list, and one to open the application. But finding that app in a managerie of oversized pictures drives me nuts.

Agreed; unfortunately, I am not aware of any fix. They did actually decrease the size of the icons a little, but that may be the only change except for the fact that you can type the name of your app in the search field at the top which helps....

The key is to change the grid layout in launchpad:

1) Open Terminal (from Applications/Utilities)

2) To change the number of rows and columns, issue the following command (10 columns and 10 rows in this example):

> defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-rows -int 10

> defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-columns -int 10; killall Dock

3) To reset back to defaults:

> defaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-rows

> defaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-columns; killall Dock

I haven't played with what the limit is, but the more columns/rows you use, the smaller the icons become. Three pages of icons on my iMac now fit neatly on one.

This is exactly the fix I have been looking for! (Unfortunately, I can't get it to work!) The dock blinked out then came back so I know that something registered. I restarted the machine to no avail. Anyway, thank you, I appreciate your knowledge. I'm going to keep playing with this a bit.

I use the trackpad with my big 27" iMac and it has become natural for me to do the three-finger pinch to switch between apps. I really don't even mind the huge icon size, but to have all that wasted screen real estate (having only seven columns and five rows leaves a ton of space on each side of the screen!) is insane, and if I have to have three screens to swipe through or a bunch of nested folders, what's the point, Apple?!?

In the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-rows -int 10

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-columns -int 7;killall Dock

This changes the grid to 10x7 icons which is great for my 24" display for my mini server.

Enjoy!

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-rows -int 4

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-columns -int 4;killall Dock

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-rows -int 4

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-columns -int 4;killall Dock

Yes. Open terminal by typing 'terminal' into spotlight.

Type this into terminal, pressing enter after every line.

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-rows -int 10

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-columns -int 10

killall Dock

This will give you a 10 by 10 grid. You can change the numbers to whatever you like to choose a size you are comfortable with - just change the number '10' in the first 2 lines of code.

'killall Dock' just resets the dock.

Enjoy!