MacBook Air (M3) and MacBook Pro (Intel), macOS 26.3.1, Rhino 8 [latest].
When using both laptops on their native display, the Rhino 8 app icon appears normal. However, when connected to an external display (Eizo CS2420 1920x1200) the Rhino 8 app icon appears in ‘squircle jail’ with the grey border around it. (see attachments)
This happens on both my intel and apple silicon Macbooks and Rhino is the only app where this happens. Both laptops have the latest build of Rhino 8 as well as macOS 26.3.1. It happens whether the laptop is clamshell or open.
If anyone else is experiencing this issue and knows how to fix it (if it isn’t a Rhino bug) it would be greatly appreciated. When viewing the app icon in Finder it also appears in squricle jail when using an external monitor.
This is macOS’s way of saying: “This app doesn’t support Liquid Glass.” Rhino 8 won’t support Liquid Glass. I do find it strange that it happens only in certain contexts though. I’ll see if I can reproduce that.
We are working to support Liquid Glass - to the extent that is possible - in the RhinoWIP. We are still not there yet.
Hi @dan, thanks for your reply. Yes I do also find it weird that it only happens when connected to an external display. My initial thoughts were perhaps it had something to do with display scaling and somehow the app icon wasn’t playing nice, but I’m certainly no app developer so I’m only guessing.
If it’s something Rhino 8 cannot (or doesn’t) support I can be patient for R9 to ship
I had a minute and I still can’t consistently reproduce this with macOS Tahoe and Rhino 8 for Mac. That is to say, sometimes it does it, sometimes not… so far I’ve tried two external displays, but I don’t even see a pattern there either.
From a technical perspective, Rhino 8 for Mac explicitly has Liquid Glass disabled. You can verify this in: /Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Info.plist where you’ll find this flag:
<key>UIDesignRequiresCompatibility</key>
<true/>
which is a flag we’ve set intentionally. You’d think with that flag set, it would always jail the icon. I’m stumped. I don’t know how macOS is deciding when to “jail” the app Icon and when not to.
o what you’re saying is the app icon is supposed to be jailed (because the UI is not yet optimised for LG) and the fact it isn’t jailed on the native displays is actually the anomaly?
