24/05/06
Cocoalicious Hack
I fancied having a play with Apple Interface Builder to remove the margins in Cocoalicious, and moving the buttons and search to the bottom, mimicking Newsfire. Here’s the result!
(Click image for original size) | The site in the screenshot is London Views, the work of Radiohead’s artist-in-residence Stanley Donwood.
If you fancy trying it out yourself…
To Install:
Download this file: ccl.zip
Ctrl-click on Cocoalicious, choose “show package contents” and then go to Contents > Resources > English.lproj and replace the ‘MainMenu.nib’ file with the one in the download folder. Best back up first!
Tags: cocoalicious, delicious, interface, osx, theming
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Josh Teague said 719 days ago:
Great idea. I hack around in Interface Builder fairly often, but rarely do stuff thats actually practical and helpful. This is proof that it can be done! :) Keep up the good work.
Lauch said 719 days ago:
Funny how the simple things really make programs easier to use. Looks great. I’ll have to have a go at it later.
Daz Oakley said 718 days ago:
Great stuff. It really works quite nicely! :)
corra24 said 718 days ago:
Great job.
Simon Meek said 718 days ago:
We went to Stanley’s opening night exhibition on Greek St, Soho the other night, and true to form, he wouldn’t come out to talk with the press because he was quote “having a lie down”. You couldn’t make it up…
Will Robertson said 718 days ago:
Amazingly, I’ve recently performed almost exactly the same modifications.
Read all about it. I’ve commented on our differences, but to my chagrin I don’t have a fancy smancy installer for others to take advantage of. http://willwont.blogspot.com/2006/05/cocoalicious-fun-and-interface.htmlNice work :)
cboone said 718 days ago:
Thanks Jon, that’s great. Nice and simple.
Jon Hicks said 718 days ago:
I say steady on!
@Simon – ack – wish I could’ve been there, even if it didn’t come out!
Nathan said 718 days ago:
This is why I love the interface builder. I once modified Mail to have the Widescreen view like NNW. It was ok, but had issues.
George said 717 days ago:
Jon,
Would you mind sharing the blue wallpaper seen in the screenshot.
Thanks
Jon Hicks said 717 days ago:
Its in the extras section George!
**** ******** said 717 days ago:
He, he… too f*********ing amazeing! Looks great. really nice thing!
Thomas said 714 days ago:
Sorry for this one off-topic question: what’s the reason you made your navigation buttons with a transparent background?
Yev Webber said 706 days ago:
BTW, when I type message there are no pointer. Is that only under
Firefox ? or that is like design idea :)