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ColorfulSidebar offers a simple but pleasing visual modification for Mac OS X 10.7's Finder.
Mac OS X 10.7 brought greyscale icons to the Mac OS X Finder window sidebar, but if you'd rather have some color back in your desktop window sidebars, you can get this done easily through a third party plugin.
If you've been following some of our other Lion tips, you may already have SIMBL installed, otherwise it's a small download.
Installation Instructions
Mac OS X 10.7 brought greyscale icons to the Mac OS X Finder window sidebar, but if you'd rather have some color back in your desktop window sidebars, you can get this done easily through a third party plugin.
If you've been following some of our other Lion tips, you may already have SIMBL installed, otherwise it's a small download.
Installation Instructions
- Download and install SIMBL, which you can get here
- Download the ColorfulSidebar
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ColorfulSidebar offers a simple but pleasing visual modification for Mac OS X 10.7's Finder.
Mac OS X 10.7 brought greyscale icons to the Mac OS X Finder window sidebar, but if you'd rather have some color back in your desktop window sidebars, you can get this done easily through a third party plugin.
If you've been following some of our other Lion tips, you may already have SIMBL installed, otherwise it's a small download.
Installation Instructions
If you ever want to get the grey icons back, you just need to remove the ColorfulSidebar.bundle file from the SIMBL plugins folder and then relaunch the Finder again.
On a somewhat related note, you can also bring back the personal folders in your OS X Lion Finder window sidebars. Those icons will gain color again too.
Mac OS X 10.7 brought greyscale icons to the Mac OS X Finder window sidebar, but if you'd rather have some color back in your desktop window sidebars, you can get this done easily through a third party plugin.
If you've been following some of our other Lion tips, you may already have SIMBL installed, otherwise it's a small download.
Installation Instructions
- Download and install SIMBL, which you can get here
- Download the ColorfulSidebar SIMBL plugin (direct link) or visit the developers home and mount the DMG file
- Move the ColorfulSidebar.bundle into the following SIMBL plugin folder:~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/
- Either login and logout of Mac OS X, or just kill the Finder through the Terminal to relaunch it:
killall Finder
If you ever want to get the grey icons back, you just need to remove the ColorfulSidebar.bundle file from the SIMBL plugins folder and then relaunch the Finder again.
On a somewhat related note, you can also bring back the personal folders in your OS X Lion Finder window sidebars. Those icons will gain color again too.
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Simbasounds reviewed on 18 May 2012
It's a little tricky for novices to install. I think the developer should put an alias to the SIMBL plugins folder in the disk image, or else advise typing G in the finder and pasting the folder path in..
And then of course there's the issue requiring the Finder to be relaunched: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/42910/relaunchfinder
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~≈ RelaunchFinder ≈~
(v1.0 Cocoa build)
I made an installer which puts the App into Applications and adds an entry into the current user's Startup Items, so it's all very armchair.
Awaiting to pass MacUpdate's testing, but available here:
http://macmatrix.blogspot.com/p/relaunchfinder.html
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My Sidebar is somewhere in between now.. icons are all default branded blue instead of grey. My own custom icons show, which suggests a work-around..
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Gary30 reviewed on 26 Apr 2012
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Lik reviewed on 06 Dec 2011
I only give it 4.5 though because the direct download link is broken, the website is in japanese only (though the "letters" are beautiful!) and a SIMBL plugin install is not a cool user experience.
But it's only half a star, so ... ;-)
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Ean reviewed on 01 Dec 2011
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So tell me; is there also a way to get back more colorful scrollbars? I have never liked the drab, colorless scrollbars that were recently foisted upon us, or the new, drab style of the maximize box in the bottom right corner of each open window. Thanks!
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153957photography reviewed on 30 Nov 2011
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Dochoz rated on 07 Dec 2011