Lost Finder Sidebar icons after Upgrading to Mountain Lion

The interesting self-obervation: I found the sidebar easier to use completely without icons rather than having the gray clutter distracting from reading. Those uniform gray piles of pixels just don't have any information content, which would be the original purpose of icons.

Adding color is a huge relief and brings back the flow.

Hi Pondini

i hear you & it's the same here...i could even get used to the grey ''Rorschach test blotches'' by position & disregard their name, problem is i DON'T want to since i REALLY don't see ANY advantage !! :-b

my beef with the whole thing is that a concerted effort was ACTUALLY poured into shaping the OS to STOP people having it whichever way they wanted ...

that to me simply adds insult to injury - it shouldn't be ANYONE'S concern if someone prefers grey turttlenecks with jeans or a Carmen Miranda hat with shorts

having choices DIDN'T take that much ''space'' in the OS, didn't make it that heavy ( as far as i can tell.. ) was DEAD SIMPLE to taylor to each one's taste & if it's SOOO MUUCH BETTER to have it grey why not come public, point out the reasoning why & educate ?

personally i find it a tad condescendent & i won't have it, not as long as i pay the 2000€ my iMac cost me 2 years ago ( roughly US$ 2.450.. ) you know what i'm saying ? are we joking or what ?...LOL...

pardon my rant but i'm a sybarite & an artist : i LIKE color, FIRMLY believe in choices ( me , you, everybody.. ) & despise 1960's ''Soviet style grey uniformity and drab conformity'' - it just DOESN'T stimulate my senses the right way....

cheers

Nuno

nuno1959 wrote:

Hi Pondini

i hear you & it's the same here...i could even get used to the grey ''Rorschach test blotches'' by position & disregard their name, problem is i DON'T want to since i REALLY don't see ANY advantage !! :-b

The latest version of SideEffects does work for me. 🙂

Also, the author of Lion Tweaks has released Mountain Tweaks, which seems to work for many folks, too.

my beef with the whole thing is that a concerted effort was ACTUALLY poured into shaping the OS to STOP people having it whichever way they wanted ...

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having choices DIDN'T take that much ''space'' in the OS, didn't make it that heavy ( as far as i can tell.. )

I don't like the decision to go gray, either, but space for options isn't the issue -- it's complexity. Every option is something else to document and, most importantly, test.

Not just the first time, but test on every build on a wide range of hardware, and with a wide range of Apple and other software. Plus, it has to be considered for every enhancement and every bug fix, then tested vs. all the options, too. It's common in development for a bug fix to break something else.

OSX has far fewer options relative to many other operating systems, and that's one reason it's far more reliable. It's very complex, but not mind-numbingly so.

This is exactly my experience. I had colorful sidebar and SIIMBL and I removed them both and everything was fine, but after a few restarts the icons arenow missing again! Yet colorful sidebar and SIMBL are not on my machine and deleting the plist does nothing to fix this!

You may want to try theSideEffects app.

New version here: http://macmatrix.blogspot.com/p/sideeffects.html

This may be THE ONE..

Thanks a lot. It works.