D'Arcy Norman dot net » menu http://www.darcynorman.net just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:57:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The wonders of transparent menus http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/01/17/the-wonders-of-transparent-menus/ http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/01/17/the-wonders-of-transparent-menus/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:19 +0000 dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/01/17/the-wonders-of-transparent-menus/

MacOSX 10.5 added some bling, possibly to "catch up" with Vista. The transparent menu bar sucks. Completely. Please, someone at Apple, fix this.

I've got my desktop picture set to cycle through some of my photographs. Most of the time, it’s not a big deal, but occasionally, one comes up that causes my menu bar to look like this:

macosx 10.5 menu bar (crop)

Seriously.

Yes, transparency is cool. It's great to show off the power of the UI renderer, etc… But not at the sake of readability.

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