Lion Finder sidebar color?

Tested icondubber,

I could not get back the icons in color

What it's work to me was:

SIMBL with colorfulsidebar and then make a script that I put in the boot, wich applies "killall Finder" and starts totalfinder.

this is the script a wrote:

#!/bin/sh

killall Finder

open /Applications/totalfinder.app

With all this, only rest to close the terminal after starting the computer, and all my folder with special icons remains there!

I hope will be useful

Thanks very much bignate256 - it works - the colors are back. I will try the script also for the killall finder - haven't done one so far

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Developer-Tools/SIMBL.shtml

For those like me who are not software savvy, one needs to install SIMBL 0.9.9 - available at the site above.

Then copy the ColorfulSidebar.bundle into /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugind folder.

The discussion is going great - but hope Apple will sort this out in the next update and avoid this unnecessary workaround for all.

The reason why iCondubber can't bring "colors" to the sidebar is simple: while it replaces the b/w icons without issues, this is not the effective solution since sidebar icons are taken from icns masks and NOT icns images. Masks, as far as I know, can only be b/w, so that's the problem... 😟

at the risk of becoming really boring , please DON'T forget to post her on this thread ( by all means .. ) BUT MOST IMPORTANT of all , POST HERE & tell them how we/you want it , they WILL read it :

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

send it under feedback for Lion OS X, & let's keep sending it - ask your friends to do it , your relatives, anyone you know that has a Mac ! ;-)

that's the only way to gain momentum & make changes happen !

best of luck for us all.....

I never made a script before how do you do it? If you could list the steps that would be nice. 😀

well, it's my first script, i tooked from here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=475143

hope it helps you, it works fine for me.

Thanks for the link, I just need to spend some cash for Total Finder and I'll try it out.

I don't mean to be a bother, but could you post a screenshot of your terminal with your commands you entered into terminal? I tried it a few times and it's not working for me.

Ok, here it goes:

1. type: pico bootcoloricon (or the name you wanna give it) press enter

2. it open a text editor, there you type this:

the last line is only if you have totalfinder, because that close it.

3. press ctrl-o and enter to save it and then ctrl-x to close it.

4. back in terminal you type chmod 755 and the name you give it to make it executable:

5. you gonna have a file with your name in Home directory.

6. You put that file in boot secuence so it run automaticly at startup.

Hope that was clear enough,

I guess you'll have no problem with the last point.

Thanks, that was most definitely appreciated! This way is a lot better even though it will open up Terminal all the time on bootup. It will have to do until Apple gets rid of the monochrome or a third party comes up with a tweak.

Yeah, i hope apple includes a fix in next update.

Meanwhile, maybe someone knows if there's a command to close the terminal...

Lol I'm praying it will. Someone will probably figure it out but it's not really annoying since Terminal opens up quick and doesn't take long to close down.

Truth to be told, that's extremely simple: just create an applescript application with the following command

do shell script "path/to/bootcoloricon"

(where "path/to/bootcoloricon" is the actual path to bootcoloricon) and put that app in the login items (NOT bootcoloricon itself). Then open the terminal and run this command:

defaults write "path/to/the/applescript/app"/Contents/Info LSUIElement -string 1

(where "path/to/the/applescript/app" is the actual path to the applescript application). This command will prevent it to appear in the dock.

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Another solution is to type bootcoloricon's commands directly into the applescript app without using an external shell script. You can do this by

do shell script "cmd1; cmd2; cmd3"

(and so on)

Can you upload a screenshot showing how? It's sometimes easier for me to see a step by step screenshot.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5025127/vari/0.pdf