ColorfulSidebar

1.1.2 20-Dec-2013

Make Lion's grey Finder sidebar icons color again.

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ColorfulSidebar offers a simple but pleasing visual modification for OS X 10.7's Finder.

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 more...

What's New

Version 1.1.2:

Add the target application to Info.plist.
PowerboxInjector is no longer required when used in EasySIMBL1.6 or more.

Requirements

OS X 10.7 or later
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Downloads 32,380

Version Downloads 19,337

Type Utilities / Desktop

License Free

Date 20 Dec 2013

Platform Intel 64 / OS X / Intel 32

Price Free

ColorfulSidebar offers a simple but pleasing visual modification for OS X 10.7's Finder.

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

One oddity about this solution is that you may need to kill the Finder again to bring the color icons back after a full system reboot, otherwise this works trouble free.

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.

Version 1.1.2:

Add the target application to Info.plist.
PowerboxInjector is no longer required when used in EasySIMBL1.6 or more.

This is an AWESOME(!!!) little ditty that brings colors back to a Colorless Corporation (Apple).

I recently realized that the reason why Mac's recent OSs are such a pain in the proverbial posterior, is because these Apple "Engineers" don't actually work on a Computer for a Living. They work on working on a Computer for a living. There's a BIG difference.

They're more concerned with what their geeky little personalities think is cool (and I know a few of these guys) rather than creating something that actually helps a Working Person's Workflow and Workload.

As an example: In Mavericks you can no longer default the OS to Double-Clicking on a Folder and having it open in a new window. One of the SIMBL guys is working on that, and some people are having success (not me).

What can I say - I'm still pissy that they got rid of WindowShade... sigh.

I don't want my Computer to be a Cartoon - I want it to help me with my Work... not slow me down and annoy me.

Just FYI: I'm a geek... but these boys at Apple make me look norBal.