Transparent Menu Bar

On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Ryoichi Morita wrote:

> I'm not bothered by the transparent menu bar at all. In fact, I didn't
> even notice it until everyone started making a fuss about it.

i'm with you. i don't think it's all that transparent. i don't find
it a problem.

On 20-Nov-2007, at 04:32, Ryoichi Morita wrote:
> I'm not bothered by the transparent menu bar at all. In fact, I didn't
> even notice it until everyone started making a fuss about it.
>
> Am I in the minority?

Not necessarily. If you do not have pictures on your desktop that
rotate with some regularity and are not 100% filling the screen,
that's when you really notice it and become most annoyed.

Moot point now, my menu bar is back to normal.

On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Ryoichi Morita wrote:

> I'm not bothered by the transparent menu bar at all. In fact, I didn't
> even notice it until everyone started making a fuss about it.

I'm not bothered (much) by it either. It slightly reduces my choice
of desktop pictures which I won't see anyhow because the screen is
covered with windows. (Apple supplies some candidate pictures which
make the menu bar look odd to me)

>
>
> Am I in the minority?

Probably not.

   --John

On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Ryoichi Morita wrote:

> I'm not bothered by the transparent menu bar at all. In fact, I didn't
> even notice it until everyone started making a fuss about it.
>
> Am I in the minority?

It does not bother me in the slightest!

Yours,

Chris Balay

On 11/21/07, Ryoichi Morita <Ryoichirjmorita.com> wrote:
> I'm not bothered by the transparent menu bar at all. In fact, I didn't
> even notice it until everyone started making a fuss about it.
>
> Am I in the minority?

Well, I *like* it. So perhaps *we're* in the minority. :-)

MacBook and MacBook Pro, lots of random desktop photos --- I love
seeing the various patterns and colours come up.

Cheers,

Miraz


--
Miraz Jordan
Writer
http://mactips.info

LewisGmail wrote:
> On 20-Nov-2007, at 04:32, Ryoichi Morita wrote:
>> I'm not bothered by the transparent menu bar at all. In fact, I didn't
>> even notice it until everyone started making a fuss about it.
>>
>> Am I in the minority?
>
> Not necessarily. If you do not have pictures on your desktop that
> rotate with some regularity and are not 100% filling the screen,
> that's when you really notice it and become most annoyed.

I have pictures rotating on my desktop regularly, and I don't find the
transparent menu bar annoying. All of them are various shots I've taken
while mountain biking or cross country skiing, so they usually have grey
or blue sky on top, but not all of them do. There are often tree trunks
or leaves behind the menu bar.

I agree there should be a slider to adjust the transparency, though.
I'm kind of curious as to how it'd look fully transparent, with text
hanging in the sky.

--
Paul Schinder
schinderpobox.com

At 3:32 AM -0800 11/20/07, Ryoichi Morita wrote:
>I'm not bothered by the transparent menu bar at all. In fact, I didn't
>even notice it until everyone started making a fuss about it.
>
>Am I in the minority?

I really actually enjoy the transparent menu bar. Its prompted me to
setup my backgrounds so they change every 15 minutes.. I find it
quite enjoyable. Sort of like watching the weather outside, it is
always changing even if what it is wrapped around is the same.


--
~Nick
http://www.inmff.net

I used to use MenuShade to hide the toolbar. Not anymore. I'm bordering on not minding the transparency, and finding it quite elegant. Even though I like to think that toning down the distracting white menubar especially on larger screens was Apple's intention, I think that it's probably an "eye candy" thing.

On my MacBook Pro I span my screen over 2 monitors, with different desktop pictures on each screen. When I detach the MacBook Pro, and have a different coloured menu bar as a result, it does throw me off for a few seconds.

I have to add my vote to the "not bothered by it" club. In fact now,
when I see the bright white menu bars in the old OSX's, it seems too
glaring.

Regards,

Howard

On Nov 23, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Paul Schinder wrote:

> I agree there should be a slider to adjust the transparency, though.
> I'm kind of curious as to how it'd look fully transparent, with text
> hanging in the sky.

I would be very surprised to learn that it wasn't something like that
early on (including menus hanging in the sky). The as-shipped
transparency level almost certainly wasn't the only one played with.

   --John

On Nov 24, 2007, at Saturday, November 24, 2007,
johnbaxterlistsmac.com wrote:

> I would be very surprised to learn that it wasn't something like that
> early on (including menus hanging in the sky). The as-shipped
> transparency level almost certainly wasn't the only one played with.

the menu bar was a bit more transparent when Leopard was shown at
Macworld.

i wish there was a transparency level control, only because i want to
make it *more* transparent.

At 7:01 AM -0800 11/23/07, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>I have to add my vote to the "not bothered by it" club. In fact now,
>when I see the bright white menu bars in the old OSX's, it seems too
>glaring.

I'm firmly in the "I like it" camp. Although I do find it jaring
when using Expose to reveal the desktop that the windows slide under
the menu bar, but they don't appear below it. I know its a bit
picky, but it picks away at the illusion that the desktop images is
the base from which all that is on the screen is layered upon.

~Nick
http://www.inmff.net

It was the first hack I applied to Leopard, to remove it ;)