October 27, 2007

Dealing with the Leopard Menu Bar

By: Ron Hall

Cat: Software

Got Leopard installed this morning and one thing I hate. The translucent menu bar at the top. Not an improvement IMHO.

There is at least one hack out there but didn't want to go that route. I hope sometime in the future Apple will give us a way to choose how we want it.

To get around it, I grabbed a photograph, made it exactly the pixel dimensions of my screen, filled the top 21 pixels with white and then applied it as a desktop background. Voila! Retro Leopard.

Got to go. Need to send an e-mail to Jobs.

 

Comments

Looks like Steve is listening. As of at least Mac OS 10.5.4 there is now a checkbox to enable or disable the translucence on the menu bar. Find it in the Desktop pane of the System Preferences.

Of course, now I am used to it. :)
Ron Hall, 08/25/08