Shorten lengthy preference pane names

Sep 10, '02 09:31:33AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Microsoft has named their Preference Panes "Microsoft Keyboard" and "Microsoft Mouse". There is nothing really wrong with that, of course ... except for the fact that there is enough text in those strings that if you happen to have both of them they overlap.

I got tired of seeing the squashed text, so I jumped into my /Libraries -> PreferencePanes directory and found that by going into the contents of the prefpane, within Resources, then within the English.lproj folder, there is a "InfoPlist.strings" file. Within this file, change the first keyword="string" line to read:

CFBundleName = "MS Mouse"
This sets the name of the PrefPane to MS Mouse. But all is not well and good yet. Now you have to go into your ~/Library/Caches/ and delete the "com.apple.preferencepanes.cache" file. Do this with the System Prefs app not running. Then start the System Prefs app and voila, you now have shortened MS PrefPane names.

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