Looking for Leopard icon set for CandyBar

[feelingsupersonic]

This is for my Powerbook running Tiger - I like the Aqua theme but I cannot stand the default icons. I installed CandyBar, however, am struggling to find any icon sets (iContainers) worth installing... most did not age well. I much prefer the Leopard icon look but I cannot seem to find this anywhere.

I have been able to find the icons themselves (have other machines with Leopard), but only as .icns files, which is not in a format that CandyBar can work with directly. I converted them to PNG but same end result. The app expects you to have example folders on hand with icons already assigned. So I did this on my MBP and I made a ton of folders, neatly organized, with Leopard icons that showed up perfectly on my 10.5+ machines. In Tiger they show up as generic folders! Dam it! Can't even use that method.

Any hints?

 

[eyoungren]

I found this: Icon Slate which is probably Intel Mac only. But according to what I read it allows you to convert .icns to .iContainer, which is what Candybar uses.

Don't know if it's worth $7 or not and you have to get it through the App store.

 

[feelingsupersonic]

I found that OS X already has a command line application, sips, which can convert to and from the .icns format, I used a bash script to recursively loop through a directly full of .icns files from Snow Leopard and convert them to PNG.

On my Catalina laptop I simply opened up a .icns file in Preview, command+A, and paste it in the "Get Info" pane at the top left of each characteristic folder. However this didn't show up on Tiger at all, each folder was generic and contained some kind of inaccessible icon file inside the folder (which was empty when created on Catalina).

So I tried the same operation in Leopard from my G5 and it seemed like it worked, copy the icon property from one folder to another in the "Get Info" panels. Just a lot of tedious work. Maybe when I have time to do that I can post the iContainer here that essentially would convert Tiger to use Leopard icons all around.

 

[feelingsupersonic]

I found this: Icon Slate which is probably Intel Mac only. But according to what I read it allows you to convert .icns to .iContainer, which is what Candybar uses.

Don't know if it's worth $7 or not and you have to get it through the App store.

To clarify - it's not a matter of file format. When you drag a file into CandyBar at any spot, it inherits whatever the icon was for that file type. So dragging a PNG (of an icon), or any other format for that matter, will not use the actual contents of the file. It will use whatever icon your current OS is using for a PNG file if that makes any sense.

The secret is to make an empty folder and then assign it to have the icon of your choosing as mentioned in the earlier post. Then, drag that modified folder into CandyBar and it will pick it up correctly. Just sucks that Preview in Tiger cannot allow you to "select all" when an image/icon is opened, so it can be pasted into the Get Info panels.