findermacos
In earlier versions of OSX I've set the label color of the /Applications/Utilities folder so that it's easy to spot (visually).
Lion disables the labels for this folder. (Why?)
I've tried changing the permissions on the folder but that didn't work.
Anyone have a fix?
System preferences > General > Appearance > [Blue|Graphite]
Graphite will turn menu selection co lor to dark grey. Of course it's system wide so it also will change the color for other UI elements.
Modding
You will need :
Download SArtFileTool into ~/Downloads/SArtFile then copy and decompress the system art resource file :
cd ~/Downloads/SArtFile
cp /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Resources/SArtFile.bin ./
./sartfiletool -d SArtFile.bin artfiles
Go into the artfiles directory and find 52.png 68.png 71.png files and modify them.
Then recreate SArtFile.bin and put into place :
./sartfiletool -e artfiles SArtFile.bin SArtFile.new.bin
sudo cp SArtFile.new.bin /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Resources/SArtFile.bin
Logout & log in again, menu should look something like this (I cheated and used the turquoise-ish files from "Lion Pulse" mod.)
Additional remarks: The SArtFile is poorly documented for Lion, here's the explanation of the contents for Snow Leopard but Lion's is different. The selection in Finder is still the harsher blue, haven't looked into that yet.
Best Answer
Lion disables most of the customizations that were once available in versions prior to 10.7. As to why that is I can only speculate, however, it can't be done like before. I personally do not recommend any type of SIMBL plug-in either, for it can cause more grief than happiness. I usually try and find the most sensible work-around for such things without having to go to extremes.
Here's what I do:
[Utilites alias]to[Utilities ]↙ leaving and extra space behind the 's'Open Terminal and type the following:
sudo chflags hidden /Applications/UtilitiesThis will hide the original Utilities folder, leaving your new alias ready to label with your color of choice.
If you want to un-hide the original Utilities folder type
nohiddeninstead ofhidden. I hide it, since there's no point to having the Utilities alias and the original Utilities folder sitting there.