Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, Apple, Leopard
Use (almost) Leopard's SysPref icon
If you're at all like me, you didn't wait for too long after the last Stevenote to scour the Internet for that "blades of grass" Leopard wallpaper, just so you too could pretend it was October already and you were using 10.5.Those of you out there (I have no idea how many of you there are-- we're all Mac nerds, right? ...right?) will have to join me in applauding reader Sebastiaan, who noticed that there was a new System Preferences icon in the latest Leopard build, and put it up for download. Spreading the actual icon (and the actual wallpaper, actually) is a no-no, but Sebastiaan's icon is only based on the same design, and not a copy of the icon itself.
And even if you aren't into deluding yourself about your version of OS X, it's still a good looking icon. Changing the icon yourself is possible, but using CandyBar is infinitely easier. You too can pretend, at least for a few months until Leopard actually releases, that you're a Leopard-using rockstar.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
HazKid said 2:24PM on 7-28-2007
Wow. Now even blogs are scared to post bits of Leopard. I'm using 9A466 and I have the REAL System Prefs icon from 9A499. I also have the Dock.app and other system related images.
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Sebastiaan de With said 2:27PM on 7-28-2007
Hey HazKid - It's not that I am scared for posting. Search TUAW for my earlier articles.
Rather, it's good not to do things that may be illegal (unless you are a select member) and oh, do a little icon-making marathon to make a spinoff? ;)
Cheers,
the icon designer.
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Jack said 2:38PM on 7-28-2007
nice job, but the icon's weight in the dock is completely off.
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adisor19 said 9:50PM on 7-28-2007
Rrrright.. i would rather hear news that the latest 499 beta has been leaked somewhere besides the pink place, so you could actually try the real Leo for a change.
Adi
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Fuzzmanmatt said 3:06PM on 7-28-2007
Is it just me, or are the directions to change the icon that you linked to incredibly difficult? It's just a simple copy-paste operation.
Just get info on System Prefs, change ownership to yourself. Get info on the .icns file, click on the icon, Apple+c on the icon, click over to SysPrefs, paste the icon. Apple+click on the old icon in the dock, and it's all pretty again!
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Mike Schramm said 3:18PM on 7-28-2007
Yeah Fuzzmanmatt, I tried to do the C&P thing, but it didn't work for me-- the intensely complicated directions were the only way to do it that I could find. Did you do it for sure? If it works, I'll update the post.
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Shreedhan said 3:52PM on 7-28-2007
I tihnk Candybar would be the best/safest way to go mate.
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Fuzzmanmatt said 9:48PM on 7-28-2007
It worked okay for me. At first the icon opened up in preview and it didn't copy right. Just have to make sure that the owner of System Preferences is changed to the current user instead of System, and change it back when you're done.
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Dave Barnes said 12:02AM on 7-29-2007
@Fuzzmanmatt
Your suggestion was/is the best.
CandyBar does not have a "slot" for System Preferences (at least not one that i could find).
,dave
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Jason Anderson said 6:19AM on 8-02-2007
It's in there. You have to look closely. It took me a minute to find it.
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