Enhance the ugly Eclipse icon on your Dock
Posted on 4th March 2010 in Developer tools, Eclipse, Mac OS | 1 Comment »
It’s pretty certain that an average Flash/RIA developer cares about how the dev tools look. If a piece of software looks ugly, it’s unlikely to be used.
Eclipse in that matter is one such tool. On Mac OS X its Dock icon looks ugly and the splash screen isn’t any better either. To improve this unbearable ugliness on the Dock, here’s a way to
swap this 
for this 
- Download the Eclipse-icons-pack.zip* (582 KB) with the above icon
- Locate your Eclipse installation folder, e.g. Applications/eclipse
- Right-click Eclipse application in that folder
- Choose Show Package Contents
- In the opened Finder window navigate to Contents > Resources
- Replace the default Eclipse.icns file with the one in the icons pack you downloaded in Step 1
- You’re done. Enjoy the new icon!
On Snow Leopard the Dock should now look like this:
* icons pack is licenced under Creative Commons 3. Original artwork by cobranail.
Related resources:
- Eclipse Platform
- AXDT – set of Open Source plugins for AS3/MXML support on Eclipse
- KDE-Look.org – Eyecandy for your KDE-desktop
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