Lion Finder sidebar color?

Thank you! Now you still do the last steps except change the bootcoloricon with the script you made then the terminal command correct?

Not exactly. You still need a working copy of bootcoloricon somewhere on your drive unless you put bootcoloricon's commands DIRECTLY into the applescript using the following syntax:

do shell script "cmd1; cmd2; cmd3"

I mean: "do shell script" executes a shell command, right? Now: if you write "do shell script" followed by those commands you need you haven't anything else to do and you're ready to go.

Please, notice that my script must be saved as an application (not just a script, so). 🙂

Ok and I kept my bootcoloricon but I just replaced the copy with the application made in Applescript. Also, instead of putting it onto the desktop I put it in my documents (I like a clean desktop). It does work so thank you both for coming up with the commands and the script.

First time i use applescript, i can't make it works. say error "It's not possible to convert current application in type string." number -1700 from application "AppleScript Editor" to string.

Or something like that because it's half english - half spanish...

bignate256 it's right, it's easier with screenshots.

Please if you have time...

Thanks,

I posted the link to the screenshots, you can find it on top of this page.

Anyway: can you paste here what you wrote in your script?

Thanks

thanks you very much, now it's works perfectly. But if i want to put all in the script? my commands are:

#!/bin/sh

killall Finder

open /Applications/totalfinder.app

Can i put that directly in applescript?

The resulting script will be:

quit application "Finder"

repeat while application "Finder" is running

delay 0.5

end repeat

launch application "Finder"

launch application "totalfinder"

Thanks! i just made a little fix in the last line:

quitapplication "Finder"

repeat while application "Finder" is running

delay 0.5

end repeat

launchapplication "Finder"

do shell script "open /applications/totalfinder.app"

What's the problem with

launch application "totalfinder"

?

Just a heads up if you haven't had this issue yet. You will get a error message saying it can't find totalfinder.app. All you need to do in order to fix this is just log out and log back in. Btw, what's the correct term for the bootcoloricon you have to make in Terminal? A shell? Now we just need something to move the categories around.

egon1984 wrote:

What's the problem with

launch application "totalfinder"

?

does nothing, can not find it.

But it works the other way.

If Applescript can't find totalfinder, you can do one of these 2 things:

1) tell Applescript where totalfinder is;

2) write the full path as follows

launch application "/Applications/totalfinder.app"

Btw, what's the correct term for the bootcoloricon you have to make in Terminal? A shell? Now we just need something to move the categories around.

What?

I just noticed that Apple, on its web pages introducing and promoting and describing Lion in great detail, shows the traditional Mac desktop - with Finder windows and so forth - in exactly one screenshot, and that's the one at the very bottom of the page that's illustrating Lion Server, not the personal Lion with whose look and feel all of us here are so frustrated. (And it's easy in this screenshot to overlook the grayed out icons we dislike so much.)

I take this as simply more evidence that the company is urging, coercing, persuading, nudging and generally pushing us away from the old desktop and into the new realm of an iPod-inspired interface. Its icons, you'll notice, are still all very bright and large and showing in easy-to-distinguish designs and colors.

If this really is Apple's intention, to move us along and away from the past, then I doubt very much that the firm will listen to any calls for a return to the old way(s). Let's not forget that this company prides itself on its GUI and any decision to abandon or diminish the old one as they have must have been done with great intention. It was not an idle whim or miscalculation. No doubt whole committees spent time on this, and Mr. Jobs, too.

Even if they're not trumpeting this change, it's clearly something strategic and something they are unlikely to retreat from. There's probably more to come, too. We're seeing only the first steps into a brave new world.

None of which is to say I am happy with the change or see much reason behind it. I am not using a laptop with gestures - I am writing, mostly, on a tower machine with traditional keyboard and mouse. I like to see "inside" my computer, to know how its files are organized and related, etc. I don't want to be shut out or discouraged from using this traditional view. It's what I know.

I wouldn't say Apple will ignore their consumers. They were bugged and bugged by people who wanted a Verizon iPhone. Eventually they did come out with a Verizon iPhone. I don't remember what it was but if I remember right consumers complained about something and Apple did change it. If enough people report back into feedback and sign that petition (if the link is still on the thread), then they probably will listen.

With respect to the motivation for Apple to de-colorize and "mundane" to the default logos in the sidebar, my suspicion is that they are following the trail to making it easier for ex-Windows users to feel more comfortable with the dullness they're accustomed to when using their old OS. I've noticed iTunes, OS Lion, and even in their ancillary Filemaker Pro app (where once proudly gaudy large icons are reduced to tediously small smartphone-like travesties). I personally find this design direction by Apple to be difficult to use, since it makes you read the names of each item rather than quickly glancing at the icons - a picture is worth 10000 words remember - and it's repulsive and contrary to the spirit of the company. Maybe it's the "big company big bucks makes you more conservative" phenomenon that was once heralded by Micro$oft and did not apply to a whippersnapper company like Apple. Careful Steve & Co. or you'll lose you're customer base.