iTunes style scrollbars for Leopard

Mon, 12 November 2007

If you don’t like the aqua style scrollbars in Leopard, there is a nice and easy way to change them to iTunes style, so they look like this:

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Pierre Breteau of abitbol.org describes (via MacThemes) exactly how to do it. All you need to do is to replace the Extra2.rsrc for Intel Macs (or Extra.rsrc for PPC Macs) in the following location:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/
HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/

You can download the blue theme here (mirror here) or the grey one from here.

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9 Responses to “iTunes style scrollbars for Leopard”

  1. Pierre Breteau said: Mon, 12 November 2007 at 21:47

    I have to say that the grey version is not mine, it’s from Roosta (at Macthemes2.net). You can find out here: http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=193687#p193687

    Pierre.

  2. Darren said: Wed, 14 November 2007 at 12:06

    My one Leopard gripe–those same-old, same-old scrollbars, has been addressed! Hurray! I implemented this and am thrilled with the results.

  3. Sharif said: Thu, 15 November 2007 at 16:54

    it seems im having a bit of trouble with this. after i place the extras2.rsrc into the folder and authenticate should it work right after that or is there another step that im missing?
    ive restarted still aqua. do i need to be in root user?

  4. Megarowski said: Sun, 18 November 2007 at 06:54

    I’ve got the same problem as Sharif, what do I have to do next? Sorry that I’m such a n00b.

  5. Nicshake said: Sun, 18 November 2007 at 20:47

    Same problem here…
    I get an authentication request for which I use my password, it seems to copy the file.
    I’ve restarted my mac and still no change.

  6. Megarowski said: Mon, 19 November 2007 at 06:21

    I just found out how to do it! You have to take the original extra2.rsrc or extra.rsrc out of the folder first and then put the modified one in. If you don’t do that the new file doesn’t actually replace the original one. Then just restart your machine and you’ll have your new look!

  7. febef said: Tue, 1 January 2008 at 13:43

    Isn’t it much simpler just to open System Preferences > Appearance and select Graphite for the overall look of buttons, menus and windows? And if you want to get rid of the blue color altogether, there you can also define any color of your choice for selected text.
    Happy New Year!

  8. joon said: Tue, 1 April 2008 at 17:53

    oh, crap, macthemes2.net is closed:

    “Speaking to the future of the website, I do not know what fate has in store for MacThemes. Hopefully, we will make it through this quagmire and soon obtain a clearer view of the situation. I will post more information as it becomes available, however, in compliance with Apple’s requests, I have taken down both the news site and the forums.”

    DOH!!!

  9. Mike said: Tue, 1 April 2008 at 18:16

    Fools day?

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