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Desktop Preference Pane | Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Enable All Desktops and Create Additional Stock Folders
by Bachelor boB, 31st Janaury 2006
This mod borrows the idea of extracting images from screen savers and bounces it up another notch or two by adding new folders and reordering the folder list as it apperars within the Desktops Preference Pane. Be good to yourself and backup your original files before getting under way.
Get Desktop Images from .slidesaver Modules
- Navigate to /System/Library/Screen Savers/.
- Control-click on the 'Abstract.slideSaver' and select 'Show Package Contents'.
- Open the 'Contents' directory and option-drag (copy) the 'Resources' folder to your desktop.
- Rename the 'Resources' to 'Abstract'.
- Do the same thing for all '.slideSaver' files, rename each 'Resources' folder appropriately.
- You should have seven folders on your desktop; Abstract, Beach, Cosmos, Forest, Nature Patterns and Paper Shadow.
Move Desktop Images to /Library/Desktop Pictures/ Directory
- Navigate to /Library/Desktop Pictures/.
- Move 5 new folders (Beach, Cosmos, Forest, Nature Patterns, and Paper Shadow) into /Library/Desktop Pictures/.
- move contents of 'Abstract' folder on your desktop into /Library/Desktop Pictures/Abstract/.
- Create a new folder named 'Apple Images' within /Library/Desktop Pictures/.
- Move all the files (not folders) in /Library/Desktop Pictures/ into the 'Apple Images' folder you created.
- Option-drag (copy) 'Aqua Blue.jpg' from /Library/Desktop Pictures/Apple Images/ back up one leve to /Library/Desktop Pictures.
Note: Replacing the default 'Aqua Blue.jpg' in /Library/Desktop Pictures/ with another picture that has the same name will change the image behind the Login Panel. Removing the 'Aqua Blue.jpg' from /Library/Desktop Pictures/ leaves the blue Boot backgroun behind the Login Panel.
Edit the 'Collections.plist'
- Navigate to /System/Library/PreferencePanes/.
- Option-drag (copy) 'DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane' to another location to use as a backup.
- Control-click on /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane' and 'Show Package Contents'.
- Open Resources folder, control-click on 'DesktopPictures.prefPane' to 'Show Package Contents'.
- Open /Contents/Resources/ and edit 'Collections.plist'
Note: For .plist editting, I used PlistEdit Pro.
- Working on the raw text at the bottom of PlistEdit Pro's window (easier for this hack, see next screenshot), change...
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/
to
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Apple Images
- Working with the same idea, select, copy, and paste to alter a 'section' to produce an entry for Beach as pictured below.
- Repeat the process to create entries for Cosmos, Forest, Nature Patterns, and Paper Shadow.
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Note: The order of these 'sections' in the 'Collections.plist' produces the order of the stock folders in the Desktop Preference Panel.
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- Press 'Sync outline' in PlistEdit Pro and then Save the altered 'Collections.plist' file.
- Quit PlistEdit Pro and close all folders opened for this hack.
- Open System Prefs and check out your altered 'DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane' -- bam!
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