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can you customize the mail icon w/numbers?
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pobodysnerfect
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Dec 27, 2002, 11:34 PM
 
I recently saw a screenshot on another thread and somebody had a custom icon for mail.app and it still had the red number of emails on it. Can you use any icon and still have the numbers show, or do you need specific icons? Thanks for any info...
     
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Dec 28, 2002, 12:18 AM
 
yes you can. The red thing with the number is acully a tiff that gets composied over the apps icon. So go and just paste a new one on the app and it will composite the red star thing wih the # on top of it.
     
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Dec 28, 2002, 07:02 AM
 
Control-click the Mail program icon in the Finder. Choose Show Package Contents. Navigate to Contents/Resources/.

The basic app icon is app.icns. *.icns files are standard Mac OS X icon files. I recommend using Iconographer for handling this format.

The badges that are overlayed for new messages are newMailBadge1&2.tiff, newMailBadge3.tiff, newMailBadge4.tiff, and newMailBadge5.tiff. Any basic graphic app that handles tiffs (such as GraphicConverter) will work for these.
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