ColorfulSidebar

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 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.

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