Fix Safari Downloads Window on Leopard Spaces
The one thing that really bothers be about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (sofar) is that Spaces doesn’t seem to handle certain windows “properly”
For instance, the Safari Downloads window.
Ideally, I want the Safari Downloads window to be viewable on all Spaces at all times. But I don’t want all Safari windows to always be on all spaces.
Here’s the trick: Change the window to be a utility panel instead.
This assumes you have Xcode installed
- Navigate to
/Applications
- Right click on
Safari
- Choose
Show Package Contents
- Navigate to
Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
- Or whatever language you use
- Open
Downloads.nib
in Interface Builder - Select the #Window# icon
- Open the Info Panel
- Select the Identity tab of the Info Panel
- Change the Class to
NSPanel
- Select the
Attributes
tab of the Info Panel - Check the Style Utility
- Save the
Downloads.nib
file - Quit & Relaunch Safari
Your Downloads Window should now be visible in all Spaces as long as you have a Safari window open in that space.
Enjoy!