Custom Icons in Lion Sidebar

I've seen a lot of posts inquiring about getting colored default icons back in the sidebar but thats really NOT enough (I never used the default ones color or not).

Custom Icons are very necessary as they were in all previous versions of OS X. When putting apps, folders, docs into this new Lion (icon domination) Sidebar they all look exactly the same. Without reading the text labels you cannot differentiate Sidebar content. This is a GUI no no, it defeats the purpose of icons all together. Beautiful custom icons was a huge part of the Mac GUI experience for many visual/art/design based users, aside from uniform colorles icons being a hindrance in varying degrees for all users.

Are there any work arounds for this?

Gratitude.

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 30, 2011 11:23 AM

19 replies

joemed2

Level 1

10 points

Jan 10, 2012 3:36 PM in response to nuno1959

SOLVED!! - Colorfulsidebar This works great - Installed SIMBL - (http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php) > then put the plugin bundle in Library/Application Support/SIMBL/PlugIns." > restart the Finder.

joemed

mbp17-2011

Jan 10, 2012 3:39 PM in response to joemed2

joemed2 wrote:

SOLVED!! - Colorfulsidebar This works great - Installed SIMBL - (http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php) > then put the plugin bundle in Library/Application Support/SIMBL/PlugIns." > restart the Finder.

joemed

mbp17-2011

Thanks. It works but is kind of a kludge. Everytime you reboot you have to restart the Finder for it to take effect, and it doesn't change the icons in Open/Save dialog boxes.

nuno1959

Level 1

36 points

Jan 11, 2012 3:34 AM in response to AqueeousBEqualibria

hi guys

i'm posting the solution to this for the second time :

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1197960&page=5 check post nº 107 on page 5

have fun ;-)

Nov 13, 2013 3:45 PM in response to AqueeousBEqualibria

Go to ( /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents ) and then into resources, then you can change anything as long as you have the excact name of the file and it's in the (.icns) format

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Custom Icons in Lion Sidebar