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Hey!
I've just upgraded to Lion and I'm kinda dissapointed of many reasons, like the grey aweful sidebar icons in the finder app.
Is there any solution to change it back to the normal like it was in Snow Leopard?
The other thing is the Mail app. The new surface looks horrible as well, even if I change it to "classical view".
I want the older back! It was good as it was!
There is no way of adding color unless there is a third party solution out there. Grey is the new color!
this ugly grey stuff is what's keeping me from upgrading. not user-friendly or efficient. I do a lot of navigating between folders and color cues make it fast and easy. with a list of grey folders, I now have to squint and read the name on each folder - big slow down in productivity.
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i guess the reasons are:
- design, design, design
- prinziple: the apps should not distract from the content and therefor go out of the way (funny thing with ical/address book...)
- "unified look" (e.g. that's why the buttons in mail lost their color)
what they forgot:
- color is one of the best informations to distinguish items (unless you're color blind, but then you would still see a difference in shade)
- the sidebar is to be used (and not like the buttons of safari that you absolutely don't need, unless you're my grandma and don't understand multitouch), therefor every information that is available helps using it
- the principles of human interface that were developed by Apple in the last century (bigger, colored icons are better - it's strange that the dock works with color and no text, while the sidebar now works only with text... talking about "unified look"?)
and I guess Apple won't listen, unless a huge amount of people send feedback.
well, why should they?
- they are absolutely successfull when they do what they want and don't listen to critics
- when a new OS is released many complain: hey they changed that, bring it back. (if there is no visual change, people complain: there is no change!)
- they are successfull, because they leave the past behind
- i can't find the quote, but i read something like: jobs told pro consumers (i think for final cut) that apple will drive the innovation and that apple won't be listening to what the pro users want
i just hope they bring back the color to the sidebar, because that was a change that is not user-friendly and unefficient. infact this is the main reason why i didn't buy lion yet and had my itunes sidebar fixed up with color.
It's all pretty much been said. Just casting my ballot and asking:
Where's my color?
All gray bites the big bullet.
I just discovered a petition asking Apple to give color choice back. I am quite dependant on color and will have to wait to upgrade.
Unfortunately there are only 65 signatures… 😠
H
Sixty-five so far, I do not think the fellow from Texas who started it has made efforts to let folks know about his petition. I have placed the link in two forums and I am curious to see if the numbers begin to accelerate.
Since the 1980's I have not found fault in Apple's Mac UI to annoy me enough to take action, but it is a huge assist for my eyesight / workflow to have color.
One forum post quipped that the next version of OSX will be monochrome!
anyone got any ideas as to how to get the colour back into the menu bar in Finder too? And how about Mail and iTunes?
Seems not to work properly in Firefox 6. Can't select anything outside US ("Page Javascript Execution Failed!").
this is really ruining my workflow, apple.
if i wanted homogenous design with the intent of minimizing "distraction", i'd only use my ipad.
leave my %$&# desk/laptops alone
I too bemoan the loss of colour in the Finder sidebar. It's a big step backwards in usability to me, even with my protanopic colour blindness. I can only imagine how much a bigger loss this is to you folks with normal colour vision.
Tidu, the only way to restore colour in those places is to go back to Snow Leopard, which I have done, along with many others. Snow Leopard was, and still is, an excellent OS. I wouldn't trade it for Lion even if Apple paid me the $29.
I may have stumbled on a solution with DiskUtility from http://sweetpproductions.com/
After installing and running it (to show hidden files) all my Finder sidebar icons showed up in Lion exactly as they appeared in Snow Leopard. Moreover, the previously hidden home/Library file now shows up.
I haven't a clue as to what happened but perhaps someone else can try it.
J.G.
Yup, turning on hidden files with Desktop Utility will bring the color back. So that's another solution if you don't like messing around with AppleScript or Terminal. If you put those files back on hidden then the color will stay.
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I downloaded that program and when I open it, nothing really happens that I can tell. Where is the place that I can select "show hidden files"? This will be so cool if it works!
Thank you.
at GWW: There appears an icon in the menubar on the right (like a gear) which is the menu of DesktopUtility.
I tried it but did not change a thing unfortunately. Switching hidden on and of does nothing to the sidebar icons.
Currently on Lion 10.7.1.
regards, Nop
Doesn't work for me either. Using Total Finder I can see color in Finder, but not in the Finder Sidebar where it matters for me. Unfortunately, showing hidden files makes no difference for me.
Lion Finder sidebar color?
