When Lion launched the faux leather in iCal made me nauseous, so I made a fix by attempting to return it to it’s previous silver glory.
With the impending launch of Mountain Lion I decided to revisit this popular topic with updated files. The latest update also adds support for Retina Display Macbook Pros and Mountain Lion.
Download from Dropbox here:
Calendar_fugly_fix_retina_lion_mountain_lion_V2.zip
Quit iCal / Calendar if you have it open
Navigate to your Applications folder, Right click on the iCal / Calendar icon and select ‘Show Package Contents’
Navigate through to Contents -> Resources
(If you want to take a backup of the original ugly version take a backup of the ‘Resources’ folder first!)
Copy the files from the zip archive you just downloaded to this location. You’ll be prompted to replace the existing files, and enter your password.
Read the original topic here.
can you fix address book too?
Thanks so much, Stu, for doing your part to eradicate the Apple iCal faux leather fugliness. Can I ask you to to one step further and repost your marvelous fix for Address Book as well (with the demise of MobileMe your links to those zips no longer works)?
Loving my AppleKory an nth more today thanks to you!
This update didn’t work for me (15″ Retina MBP, 10.7.4). There seem to be a few files missing from the Zip, specifically LeatherTile.png, LeatherTileFullscreen.png and ther @2x equivalents (the ‘stitchless’ tiles are in the Zip, but not these). I manually photoshopped the tile files that were missing and can confirm that they made the difference.
Just did this – thank you, thank you, thank you! Now, ah, how about the address book?
I cannot thank you enough for this – so, so much better!! +1 million karma points for you
sighhhhh…. fanks!
Thanks for the fix! Worked great, and got rid of that ridiculous iCal format. Actually makes the calendar readable now!
In Contacts.app/Resources are some png files that are orange/yellow/leather-style. I copied all of them to a folder and opened them all with Photoshop and just lowered satuaration to zero (i used an “action” to do this, save and close the pic). I then moved them back to the /Resources Folder… tataaa the new shiny Contacts.app. – took me three minutes. Its really easy, give it a try.
- Thanks for the idea!!!
Thank you soo much, what an improvement,