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by Steven Grimm — Nov 05
On menubars:

The more and more I think about this, the more and more it sounds like a tempest in a teapot. So we've gone from mostly black on mostly white to black on maybe a light red or barely striped faded green. The smearing affects the background image, not the text itself.


Here's an example of what the menubar looked like for me before I went through and carefully selected which of my iPhoto images I would allow my Mac to cycle through as my background:



Not sure I'd describe that as "black on maybe a light red or barely striped faded green."

If you don't find that objectively harder to read than the Tiger all-white menubar, well, I envy you your eyes. Me, I resent the OS making me do the busy-work of sorting through my hundreds of vacation photos just to make its user interface stop sucking.
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