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Change Lion Finder Sidebar icons to color version?

brand said:
I never mentioned Snow Leopard. Other companies besides Apple make operating systems. To think that the new Apple computers are hardwired to not support an earlier OS is ridiculous. Versions of Mac OS prior to Lion do not have the drivers that the newer hardware requires to be supported.
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OK OK so you understand the technology much better than me. Now that's out of the way, you still have conceded that a new Mac will not run SL. Linux or some other OS I clearly don't know. Perhaps you could enlighten us. :rolleyes:

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*LTD* said:
This is also Apple's strength.

It's a big part of what created the iPhone and iPad, and what is currently the most viable mobile OS: iOS.

Yeah, I'll take a possibly unwelcome UI element change in exchange for that any day.

You'll get some tradeoffs. But the upshot tends to be complete redefinition of markets and products that set the bar in the consumer market.

That's a pretty fair deal.
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Many seem to have misread the intent of my original post. It was not to criticize how Apple is run but to simply describe it. My original premise remains: You will not have color icons back unless and until Steve Jobs says you will.
 
kdfukuyama said:
The Lion and iTunes gray sidebar makes me think if the new iOS5 Settings icons will be the same... Hope not (knocking on wood) :rolleyes:
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They're still in color in iOS 5 beta 5.

ScottishCaptain said:
For reference, the icons are not generated programatically. They are stored at the following location:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources

The original icons are prefixed with "Toolbar". The new icons are prefixed with something else (can't remember- I went back to 10.6 myself). Nevertheless, they are contained in CoreTypes.bundle as a totally separate set of icns files.
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They're either masks or used programmatically to change the original icons from color to grey/muted. The Sidebar[IconName].icns are black and white which is most people think they're used as masks. Toolbar[IconName].icns are the color versions.

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naive...

hi guys

please forgive me if i'm being too naive about this but.....since the grey icons are here :

Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources

wouldn't it suffice to replace these with colored ones to get rid of these ''freaks of nature'' ? if i did this, would it send Lion into chaos ? i REALLY DESPISE the damn things....not to mention the fact that after i tailor made ALL my Mac's icons for just about EVERYTHING, i'm being forced to have them as some computer bully thinks is best for me....

i mean, i might even be able to stomach the damn things if someone from Apple cared to come publicly explain there is a valid/necessary/imperative technical reason for them to be so

as things stand, i have simply removed EVERY icon from my sidebar, it bothers me less to have to move my mouse cursor a bit more than to deal w/ the grey aberrations...
 
There should at least be the option to turn it on and off in the General pref pane in the Appearance section. You can change window buttons to gray and back to color, why not your icons?
 
iVeBeenDrinkin' said:
Asking someone if they really need colored sidebar icons is an asinine line of questioning in your world? Hmmmm

Doesn't seem that many people are bothered by it, very few people have replied to this thread.
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I think that many people answer you directly, i work with videos and have lots o folders, and i was used to put special icons folders to each one, that way i save lot of time to move from one to another.
YES! I DO NEED IT!!!

My hope is that soon arrives an update with the fix.:confused::mad:
 
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iVeBeenDrinkin' said:
Doesn't seem that many people are bothered by it, very few people have replied to this thread.
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That may or may not have been true on 7/26. As of today (8/15) there are 80 posts on this thread. If you sort the "Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" thread by number of replies it is on the first of 93 pages. If you discounted 3 pre-reelease rumor threads, and about 6 general dissatisfaction threads it would move further up the page.

Objectively this thread shows a remarkable amount of interest.
 
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I for one, dislike the monochrome sidebar icons in Finder. I hope someone, anyone releases something to fix or hack this. This is one of my many reasons for sticking with the great Snow Leopard.
 
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orthorim said:
Yes! Indeed, it is!

Steps:
- Install SIMBL
- Download ColorfulSidebar above
- Put Colorfulsidebar.bundle in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/

Go into terminal and type
Code: 
killall Finder

Woo-hoo, the colors have returned!
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sorry Orthorim

but i clicked on Macintosh HD then Library then Application Support but i couldn't find a folder named SIMBL nor plugins !? what am i doing worng please ?

thanks
 
nuno1959 said:
sorry Orthorim

but i clicked on Macintosh HD then Library then Application Support but i couldn't find a folder named SIMBL nor plugins !? what am i doing worng please ?

thanks
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Make sure you have SIMBL installed. If the folders still aren't there, you can make them yourself.
 
Simbl...

Hi Justn

bang on - got it !! ;-)

so far so good, it is working & i like it :D

now is it correct that if one logs out it returns to grey ? not that i log out ever but just to know if i ever do...
 
Thanks are in order

Thanks (or mahalo as we say in Hawaii) are due to some of you here.

Thanks to Cougarcat for initially finding the solution and yes it works in TotalFinder
Thanks to ztrafe for the link to get SIMBL
Thanks to Orthorim for instructions on how to load it. This was critical for me as it was not automated by the package installers. We get spoiled by Apple.

Note to nuno1959: I ran the installer SIMBL-0.9.9.pkg and it made the empty SIMBL folder. You should have it if you download and open the zip file from ztrafe's second link and run the installer. The ColorfulSidebar.dmg has two items. You only have to move the ColorfulSidebar.bundle to the SIMBL folder. You can ignore the Source folder. If I can do it anyone can. :)

iVeBeenDrinkin'-you can stick with grey icons :p:D
 
Kanunu said:
Thanks (or mahalo as we say in Hawaii) are due to some of you here.

Thanks to Cougarcat for initially finding the solution and yes it works in TotalFinder
Thanks to ztrafe for the link to get SIMBL
Thanks to Orthorim for instructions on how to load it. This was critical for me as it was not automated by the package installers. We get spoiled by Apple.

Note to nuno1959: I ran the installer SIMBL-0.9.9.pkg and it made the empty SIMBL folder. You should have it if you download and open the zip file from ztrafe's second link and run the installer. The ColorfulSidebar.dmg has two items. You only have to move the ColorfulSidebar.bundle to the SIMBL folder. You can ignore the Source folder. If I can do it anyone can. :)

iVeBeenDrinkin'-you can stick with grey icons :p:D
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couldn't agree more, specially the last sentence !! ;-) ...LOL...

big thank you to all
 
sunnyj said:
if you restart the computer the icons turn grey & you have to run terminal again.
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just tried it & yes, it's true :-b
any idea of a ''fix'' for this ? mind you, even if i have to type killall Finder in Terminal each time i prefer it to grey icons...ANYTIME !

but a little workaround WOULD be nice....
 
First - thanks for tracking down the fix, I've repped those involved.

Second, Why are you restarting the machine at all? Just curious...because most of my machines don't get restarted. There's no point unless I'm experiencing a problem, which is more common on my work Pro than my personal machines and only because my work Pro isn't nearly as tricked out as my personal Pro.
 
revelated said:
First - thanks for tracking down the fix, I've repped those involved.

Second, Why are you restarting the machine at all? Just curious...because most of my machines don't get restarted. There's no point unless I'm experiencing a problem, which is more common on my work Pro than my personal machines and only because my work Pro isn't nearly as tricked out as my personal Pro.
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Love this solution and thanks to all for having brought back the colored icons!

However, for those of us with Boot Camp partitions a restart is required when switching between operating systems. The killall Finder command in Terminal restores the colored icons and isn't difficult to enter manually.
 
What puzzles me about you guys is that not one of you has asked, "Why was the coloured icons dropped in the first place". Apple will read your posts and conclude that what you guys really want, is for them to break a perfectly good OS which then gives you chance to go off and find a solution :)
 
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