Cage Fighter - Remove Mail.app buttons

Friday, Apr. 29 2005 | Author: derek

Have you installed Tiger yet? Have you checked out Mail yet? Do you hate the new jelly-like buttons? Cage Fighter can help you get rid of them. It just removes the little button background graphics and changes the highlight color, so that it looks a little nicer and matches the rest of the OS instead of going out on its own for no apparent reason.

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One Response for "Cage Fighter - Remove Mail.app buttons"

Kim

April 30th, 2005 at 5:15 am
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Great app!

If you dislike the unified toolbar as well, you can turn it off if you have the Xcode developers tools installed.

Make sure Mail is closed and that you have a backup copy of it somwhere (always recommended when mucking with internals). Then bring up the context menu on the Mail application in Finder and choose “Show Package Contents”. Open the folder “Contents” in the window that comes up and then “Resources”. Now open the language.lproj that corresponds to your language. Double click the “MessageViewer.nib” file. It’ll open in Interface Builder. Once open make sure that the “MessageViewer” icon in the “MessageViewer.nib (langauge)” window is selected. Then bring up the inspector from the “Tools” menu. It should be set to “Attributes”, otherwiser hit cmd-1. Second from the bottom you’ll have a “Unified title/toolbar look”. Deselect it, save, and you’re done.

Sadly the icons in the toolbar were clearly made for the unified look since they appear a bit faint and small with the normal toolbar look. But at least your eyes won’t bleed when you check your mail.