When I was playing with the beta builds, Leopard’s translucent menu bar really bothered me. Depending on the wallpaper, the effect of the translucency can vary from distracting to making the menu downright illegible.

Maybe it’s just my imagination but I think Apple made some last minute changes to the menu bar in the shipping version of Leopard. It looks much better, much less distracting. I want to say the wallpaper under the menu bar has a gaussian blur applied to it and the opacity has been turned up a notch. I haven’t done a side-by-side comparison, so again, it may be just my imagination. But I’m happy the translucent menu bar doesn’t bother me as much as it used to.

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