Posted on 2010-08-22 08:00:00
Tags: iPhone
Whoever designed the background colours of the iPhone SMS application should think about it once again. The standard background of the window is white, the background of the incoming messages is white, the background of the outgoing messages is green. Which background is your eye drawn to first? The green background, thus your own message. Which colour makes you go "Hey, I got something on the screen?"? The green one.
This issue can be fixed on a jailbroken iPhone if you have either SSH access to it or via a terminal program:
iPhone:~ root# cd /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ChatKit.framework iPhone:/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ChatKit.framework root# ls -al Balloon* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1502 Jun 1 13:40 BalloonInputField.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1907 Jun 1 13:40 Balloon_1.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1805 Jun 1 13:40 Balloon_2.png iPhone:/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ChatKit.framework root# cp Balloon_1.png Balloon_1.old iPhone:/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ChatKit.framework root# cp Balloon_2.png Balloon_2.old iPhone:/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ChatKit.framework root# cp Balloon_2.old Balloon_1.png iPhone:/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ChatKit.framework root# cp Balloon_1.old Balloon_2.png
People with graphical skills can download, enhance and upload the images themselves to fit their needs :-)
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