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Change text color of default iCal theme Apps
I was checking out the tip about adding custom colors to iCal and came across a way of changing the text of the events as they appear in iCal. You need to edit the file "description.plist" that resides inside the different color folders (Contents -> Resources -> data.wrapdir -> Themes -> default). There are six different options (states) for you to edit. So you can really play around with this. What would be nice if someone would write a simple app that could create new/edit current resources.

[Editor's note: In playing around with this, I was unable to get it to change the text colors. I'm posting the info anyway in hopes that it might be useful to others who can figure out how to change the text colors -- I hate the white color text in some of the themes!]
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Change text color of default iCal theme
Authored by: vlbrown on May 19, '05 05:19:26PM

Unfortunately, iCal has changed wince 2002 and the plist files and paths described above no longer exist. Themes are in weirdly named subfolders of your "Library/Application Support/iCal/Themes". One subfolder per calendar.

The relationship between the names of the folders and the names of the calendars can be found in your Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.sources.plist file, e.g.
<key>DDC0D52B-C8A1-11D9-B08B-0050E460C946</key>
<dict>
<key>Color</key>
<string>orange</string>
<key>Description</key>
<string>Work</string>


You can then, At Your Own Risk (of course), make a copy of the relevant Resources file (Contents/Resources/metadata.plist) and see if you can get anything to come out the way you like it.

No guarantees. I found where the stuff is but haven't managed to modify it to my satisfaction yet :-(



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