Loyal Moses

Replace the ugly Eclipse icon with the Flex Builder icon

Posted on 18 May 2009

I can’t imagine I am alone on this one, but I absolutely cannot stand the Eclipse icon.

Whenever possible, that horrific purple monstrosity sitting in my OS X dock gets kicked to the curb and replaced by the much more handsome Flex Builder icon. Soon it will be replaced with the Flash Builder icon.

For those who share my feelings, this is the quick dirt on making the swap and is rather simple for anyone familiar with OS X.

If you don’t have both Flex Builder and Eclipse installed, you can download the “flexbuilder.icns” icon file here.

To begin, right click the Flex Builder application and select “Show Package Contents”

Browse to the Contents->Resources folder and copy the “flexbuilder.icns” icon into the clipboard.

Next, right click the Eclipse application and select “Show Package Contents”

Browse once again to the Contents->Resources folder and rename “Eclipse.icns” to “Eclipse_old.icns” or something else handy just in case you change your fancy.

Paste your clipboard copy of “flexbuilder.icns” into the Resources folder and rename to “Eclipse.icns”.

Restart Eclipse.

Done. Enjoy.

~moses

2 responses to Replace the ugly Eclipse icon with the Flex Builder icon

Garfty says:

May 19, 2009 at 12:49 am

Very nice…

There is also this funky little AIR App I found: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?event=marketplace.offering&offeringid=10313&marketplaceid=1

moses says:

May 19, 2009 at 1:02 am

Nice. I think I an LM icon might look good…