I still don’t get it. Okay, now that I think of it, there are two things I
don’t get. First, I was so sure the “Translucent Menu Bar” checkbox would be
under “Appearance” that I thought something was wrong when I didn’t find it
there. That being said, I also still don’t get the big deal with the menu
bar. Having used Leopard for months, Leopard sans translucency looks even
more flat and lifeless than Tiger does. Were people even complaining about
the menus themselves? I honestly don’t remember.
In other news, under 10.5.2, I’ve had a sharp increase in the number of times
the app switcher pops up with the wrong number of icons in it. Strangely,
most of the time the app I’m looking for isn’t one that the system forgot to
draw in the app switcher, so it isn’t really that much of an inconvenience —
but it’s still odd.