Awesome links.. Thanks.. Btw check out the dock skinning people are doing. I really like the wood grain. It matches my real desktop. :)
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Bill Rising <brising at mac.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I installed Leopard at work today... the Upgrade install was totally > painless, except for the minor mental anguish at losing Visor (a > Terminal hack) and pictures as the background for Terminal. > > One major mental anguish, however, is the ugly folder icons. I found > some advice for replacing them with something that is a bit easier > to recognize [1], but it involves replacing files in the /System > folder... which should be a no-no. Also, the resolutions for the > icons I like [2] are not the same as those supplied with Leopard. > > Is there any reason, other than that messing with /System files is > dangerous, that I should not replace these ugly versions of System 7 > folders? > > BTW---I like the new Mail with its data detectors, like the striped > background for list view in the Finder, and actually like the new > iTunes-like interface to the Finder. I'm amazed that most all the > stuff I have on my work machine still works well. Also---I've > figured out how to solve the lack of Classic for my laptop: I'll > just put a pretty bare installation of Tiger on an external drive, > include Hypercard, and use it to run my Hypercard stacks when they > are needed. > > Cheers, > > Bill > > [1] http://johnrork.com/xicons/ > [2] http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=1958 > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
