Hacking 2 - Transparent menu bar

[DAddYE]

I see much people that don't love the new trasparent menu bar, so I found on a blog a way for have the same menu bar of tiger.

 

See it here: http://blog.lipsiasoft.com

 

p.s. I don't know if any has just posted it

[Guest Ramm]

That's not a hack. All it does is place a window behind the menubar.

[questionmark]

I've tried this program, doesn't want to work with spaces, you change to a new desktop and the window ends up being placed beneath the transparent menu bar instead of behind it.

[DAddYE]

It place a window under the menu bar? It only do that?

 

It's strange, if is a windows trasparent will be always visible, u see my screen shot?

[Yanson Britania]

The easiest thing to do is put a white bar along the top of your desktop background image (22px high - assuming the image size is a match of your resolution).

[Doosje]

Look to

http://www.manytricks.com/blog/?id=10

and

http://www.manytricks.com/blog/?id=14

for more details about the hack

[skanero]

I see much people that don't love the new trasparent menu bar, so I found on a blog a way for have the same menu bar of tiger.

 

See it here: http://blog.lipsiasoft.com

 

p.s. I don't know if any has just posted it

 

sorry dude, but very crapy your solution, once you use spaces everything goes to

[NeSuKuN]

If I had leopard developer documentation I'd create a fix for the transparent bar :S

[DAddYE]

If I had leopard developer documentation I'd create a fix for the transparent bar :S

 

If you found a good solution, tell me Im very happy to post on my own blog.

[NeSuKuN]

I have one in mind, but I can't develop it without the proper documentation of leo's apis

[DAddYE]

When I buy a developper connection il will send you all docs.

 

I hope this helps

[skanero]

thanks for trying to kill the ugly transparent bar, i'm waiting for a solution.

 

if i could help please pm me, but notice that i have no idea on developing, maybe i can help to make icons or some photoshop work

[sg]

That's not a hack. All it does is place a window behind the menubar.

 

thats exactly what a hack is... a cheap solution.

[Guest Ramm]

It doesn't "hack" the menubar (change it's construction).

[sg]

It doesn't "hack" the menubar (change it's construction).

 

it doesnt matter what it changes, the end result is we get a solid looking menu bar, therefore its a (cheap) hack.

[Guest Ramm]

Not true. This is a fix.

 

Ramm smells a vocabulary war emerging...

 

At any rate, I think we should find a real alternative... however there are no GUI hacking tools for Leopard, yet.

[sg]

 <jargon> 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.

[turpentine]

i just had an idea.

create a script that takes a picture of the dekstop background, opens it in an editor, adds the 22 (or 23) px background to the top, saves it to the desktop and sets it as the background.

[Guest Ramm]

It's 23 pixels. And I already did that, just using Photoshop

 

[skanero]

It's 23 pixels. And I already did that, just using Photoshop

 

Nice

[hazkid]

Mine is 22 px.

I've been experimenting with different colored backgrounds, and I've found grey (actually, the color should be black, though it appears as a medium grey) works really well.

[Guest Ramm]

It's 23px counting the small white line directly underneath the menubar.

[hazkid]

Hmmm... I don't see that line, even when zoomed in all the way. I've tried 22px,23px, and plain, but I don't see it. Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter. But the black does look cool.

[sg]

It's 23px counting the small white line directly underneath the menubar.

 

its 22px. guess you're wrong again.

[Guest Ramm]

Yes, it appears you're right. That "white line" i was referring to was just a strange illusion, from when a window is pressed right against the menubar.

 

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And SG, you act as though it's a big deal. Yes, I was wrong, your point is? And technically, I wasn't wrong "again" because the first time, we were both right...