Anyone tried this or able to try it? I don't remember where the files are located that you'd need to swap, but I'd love to accomplish this. Personally, I never liked the version of Front Row that came with Leopard/Snow Leopard, and I'd love the Tiger version on my newer Macs.
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Tiger's Front Row under Snow Leopard?
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I assume the process would be similar to making the Snow Leopard version of Front Row run in Lion.
If it doesn't work via the simple route of just copying the files, and depending on how much effort you're willing to put into this, remember that you can also use
And,
If it doesn't work via the simple route of just copying the files, and depending on how much effort you're willing to put into this, remember that you can also use
otool -l to see what frameworks a binary depends on:
Code:
otool -l /System/Library/CoreServices/Front\ Row.app/Contents/MacOS/Front\ RowAnd,
install_name_tool can change which copy of a framework is used by a binary:
Code:
install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Foo.framework/Versions/A/Foo @executable_path/../Frameworks/Foo-From-Tiger.framework/Versions/A/Foo Bar.app/Contents/MacOS/Bar
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Other than the Front Row app itself in CoreServices, none of these files exist under the Tiger version of Front Row. I may have to find my hacked installer that disregards system requirements to install, but it may end up in a weird situations that breaks both versions.
Did you try otool -l on the Front Row app's binary to see what libraries it depends on? It's also possible that the Tiger version is more self-contained.
If you can, try it in a Virtual Machine first so you don't hose your real Snow Leopard install. That's how I've been testing stuff.
If you can, try it in a Virtual Machine first so you don't hose your real Snow Leopard install. That's how I've been testing stuff.
This ended up being the case. There was a missing step, or so it seems there was.
What I had to do to make this work was delete the Front Row application from the Applications folder (I honestly can't say whether this affects anything or not, I'd have to try again, the app might just be a shortcut to the Core Services one) and also delete the Front Row application from Core Services. Then, I could pull the application from a Tiger install, and it works great. No issues whatsoever. My patched installer fails on SL, but this manual method takes care of it.