Battery Colour Menu 1.0

by Chris Lawson

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Battery Colour Menu, along with its sister icon replacements Bluetooth Colour
Menu and AirPort Colour Menu, was inspired by Stanton McCandlish's excellent
PPPContrastMenu, which is entirely unaffiliated with this icon set. If you wish
to get PPPContrastMenu, please visit

http://www.well.com/~mech/Software/

Battery Colour Menu is a set of replacement icons for the Battery menu extra for
Mac OS X 10.3 which adds some much-needed colour to the menu icons. The charge
levels are displayed in green, then orange, then red as charge gets below about
30%. The charging icon's lightning bolt is now orange.

To install Battery Colour Menu, first ensure that Battery status is not being
displayed in the menu bar. To turn this off, go to the Energy Saver preference
pane and uncheck "Show battery status in menu bar."

Once the status display is turned off, navigate to

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu

and control-click to bring up the contextual menu. (If you wish to back up the
original appearance of your menu extra, make a copy of the Battery.menu file at
this point.)

Select "Show Package Contents."

Open the "Contents" folder, then the "Resources" folder.

Drag the TIFF file from the Battery Colour Menu folder into Resources.

Authenticate as needed and choose to replace duplicate items.

Turn on Battery status display again, and enjoy your new icons.


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These TIFF files are known to be properly named for the Battery menu extra under
Mac OS X 10.3.5; there is no guarantee that they will work on earlier (or
later!) Mac OS versions.

No warranty is expressed or implied with these icons. If you break something,
it's your own fault. Icons are derived from Mac OS X icons which are presumably
copyright © Apple Computer. Inspiration by Stanton McCandlish. These icons are
hereby released under the GNU General Public License
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).

If you find these to be the greatest thing since sliced bread and want to show
your appreciation by sending me a couple bucks, a postcard, a six-pack of
microbrew, or whatever else you think I might find interesting, e-mail me at

icons at (the domain hosting this file)

and I'll let you know where to send the goods.


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Version History

1.0: Initial (and probably final) release.