iCal’s Abominable Stripes
October 29th, 2007 by Jonathan JohnsonFor the most part, I like Leopard’s new look. Once upgraded to the GM release, the new dock style shocked me, but now it looks and feels great.
One bug report I filed with Apple didn’t get changed for the final release. iCal uses vertical stripes. Check it out:
It just looks awkward and out of place. I expect that one of these days the report will be closed as “Behaves as Designed.”
It’s sad: that’s how my report about the abominable PDF pop-down push-button in the print dialogs was treated. UI Inconsistencies annoy me 
October 30th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Haha, bro… Now you know how I felt all the time reporting inconsistencies and other bugs about RB
Keep up the good articles, guys. They are unique and have substance, making them stand out from many other tech blogs I’m subscribed to.
BTW, this arstechnica review of Leopard is quite a good and detailed one: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/1
November 9th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Agreed, I hate those stripes.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:22 am
If you want to get rid of the abominable stripe in iCal, it’s dead easy.
Just make sure iCal isn’t running then right-click on the app, choose “Show Package Contents” and drill down to:
/Applications/iCal.app/Contents/Resources/StripePattern.png
This is the offending striped image. Just edit it in your favourite image editor to remove the stripe, restart iCal and viola! The stripe is gone.
A couple of points: you’ll obviously need admin privs to do this. Secondly, if you get a complaint that “StripePattern.png” is in use, (even without iCal running) then you should delete StripePattern.png (you’ve backed it up, right?) before moving the replacement image into the app bundle.
Dave Jewell