Replacing inbox icons in Mail.app

Jan 2006

Some people hate the new unified look of some Tiger applications, some love it. One thing that I can’t stand are the inbox icons in Apple Mail 2.0

So a little of graphic editing helps cure some ugly pixels on your screen. I used the inbox icon from Mozilla Thunderbird and the result is the picture below.

If you like it download InMailBox.zip and unzip it somewhere on your desktop. The image you will need is InMailbox.tiff

Installing
Open your Finder, right-click on Mail icon and select Show Package Contents. Open Contents and then Resources.
Find the file InMailbox.tiff and rename extension from tiff to tif (or to anything else so the Mail.app can’t recognise it).

Then copy InMailbox.tiff from your desktop into this folder.

Close everything and open Mail again. Enjoy!

Mac

Comments

Paul

January 18th, 2006 at 4:06 AM

where’d the zip go? pleaseeeee put it back =)
Mike

January 18th, 2006 at 9:58 PM

It must have been ‘lost in translation’ WP has some weird linking features and until one gets used to them things might get a bit rocky.

But the zip is there and you can download it now. Enjoy!