February 14, 2008

How to Change the Case of Finder Labels in Leopard

Posted in apple, computers, mac, programming tagged , , at 1:24 pm by jamieorc

A quick search of the term “uppercase” at Macosxhints.com got me this. Took me about 2 minutes and now I have capitalized rather than uppercased labels. Now to find out how to change Mail and iCal and I will be a happy Leopard user…

Before:

finder-sidebar.png

After:

finder-labels-altered.png

ALL CAPS MOSTLY SUCK

Posted in apple, computers, mac tagged , , , , , at 12:03 pm by jamieorc

As I get familiar with Leopard, one other annoyance is the introduction of ALL CAPS into the UI. I hate them. ALL CAPS are the text equivalent of a RAISED VOICE. The two places that I’ve noticed them are in the Mail and Finder sidebars. Mail used to use lowercase which was much less obtrusive.

finder-sidebar.png mail-sidebar.png

The other thing: why the MAILBOXES label? Tiger’s mail didn’t have the label, I don’t need it and it wastes vertical space. At least let me make it lowercase…

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