Customize the Finder Sidebar in LeopardIn Leopard, it's much easier to customize the Sidebar in the Finder than it was in Tiger. Just open a Finder window and then go to Finder -> Preferences in the menu bar. There will be a Sidebar tab that allows you to select the elements that are available in the Sidebar. You'll note that there are now many more options than there were in Tiger.
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This customization is absolutely minimal.
What you still cannot do is change the icon size, minimum width of the sidebar, and there is a large margin of wasted pixel space on both sides of the elements within the sidebar. Also the sidebar now always has to show, unlike tiger where you could collapse it into just icons or hide it on the side altogether, while still keeping the top bar. Even if you remove all the items in a section, the section still appears. For example I never use the 'search for' section. Can I remove it? No. I can remove the elements, but the category 'search for' remains visible. What good does that do me?!?
Someone needs to make a program that allows you to fully customize this.
Shapeshifter is a program that can customize the finder interface, but so far it does not support leopard, only tiger. No word on when it will either.