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10.5: Get rid of the translucent menu bar
Authored by: gr8tfly on Thu, Nov 15 2007 at 11:09PM PST

Thanks for the tip - at least it's a workaround.

Aperture, Soundtrack and Livetype all manage to override the transparency when they are in the foreground. When they do, it matches the normal Leopard gray window style.

It seems like they do it through a different method, but perhaps this plist field is related.

10.5: Get rid of the translucent menu bar
Authored by: derPlau on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 1:40PM PST

Actually, Aperture (and presumably the other Pro apps) doesn't disable translucency. It increases the opacity of the menu bar to approximately (to my eye) the level of two "standard" menu bars, one on top of the other... but high-contrast desktop images still show through.