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Originally Posted by Jim Danner
If you're running Winterboard, you can add alternative application names to a theme you have selected -- or create your own theme with your selected app names. This will work for all apps, not just the ones that are listed in that file /System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app/english.lproj/LocalizedApplicationNames.strings.
The way you do it: - Create your theme folder, let's say /Library/Themes/MyAppNames.theme/
- In this folder (or in an existing .theme folder), create a subfolder Folders/SpringBoard.app/en.lproj/ (or de.lproj if you have German set as your language, etc.)
- In this folder, put a file called LocalizedApplicationNames.strings created with a simple text editor. This must be a list of application identifiers with the application names you choose for them, followed by semicolons ; as below:
Code:
"com.saurik.cycorder" = "Video";
"com.apple.MobileStore" = "Music Store";
"com.apple.MobileSMS" = "SMS";
"com.apple.mobilemail" = "E-mail";
"com.apple.mobilesafari" = "Internet";
"com.nfinity.QuickVoice" = "Dictaphone";
"com.bigboss.docs2" = "Documents";
"com.Fringland.Fring" = "Fring";
As you see this can include anything: built-in standard apps, App Store apps and Cydia apps. You find the application identifier in the Info.plist file that sits in the folder of each application.
- Go to Winterboard and activate the theme.
Advantage: works for all apps and is easy to switch on/off or share with others. Disadvantage: will only work if you have Winterboard installed.
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that's a slow way to do it. I used to add new <key>, and a new <string> to 3rd party downloads. Way to do that, go into your root/applications/ and open up the Application (installed thru Cydia or App Store) and open the Info.plist
as you see they always start with
<?xml version="blablabla""utf-8"?> bla bla bla
and there should be something like this
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>en</string>
<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
<string>blablabla</string>
some applications do not have the 2nd one, but you can actually copy and paste that and change that BLA BLA BLA thing to whatever you like. And you still can do it like I said before. Look up!