Make and use themes with WinterBoard

Section 22: Adding the text shadow to the White Icon Labels theme

Attention

If you have not read the two prerequisite tutorials: Using YummyFTP and OpenSSH to create themes, and Understanding a theme's directory structure, then you should prior to performing any of the instructions in the following tutorial.





One of the default themes that comes with WinterBoard is called White Icon Labels. The only problem with this theme is it does not have a shadow, so it doesn't look as good as it could. Here's an example of the difference. While this isn't the ideal wallpaper image (as you can't read all the names) it clearly demonstrates what the shadow looks like. I never really paid attention to the text myself, and learned of this modification at this thread over at MacForums.net. I want to credit member jluce50 for posting this fix.

Step 1.

Download the file modified info.plist file here. There is also an original version of the plist included. Navigate to your /Library/Themes/White Icon Labels.theme folder. You may want to rename the original plist file before uploading the modified file.






Launch Settings and go to WinterBoard, select themes, and deselect and reselect White Icon Lables to reload the theme with the changes.