Agreed, everything is a matter of preference. Disabling transparency was my first try but I did not like the color of the dock with that option so I created the utility.
I actually never want to see the Dock or rarely see it, so hiding it does the trick for me. I use a launcher (Alfred with Powerpack) and Toggle (⌘+tab) if I'm switching apps.
Anyone know of a way to reduce the delay while auto-hiding the menubar? The day I find a way to instantly show the menubar when cursor-hover, I will hide that too.
Seriously, I can't fathom why translucency is still being pushed -- for the menu bar and window sidebars.
It was a fad when Windows Vista introduced it. It's not useful at all. It should have disappeared when flat design was introduced, but inexplicably Apple still likes it?
There is no reason for my menu bar to be light blue or light pink or whatever other random color happens to be at the top of my wallpaper, especially when my windows cover up the wallpaper anyways.
I turn off all sorts of animations, movements, and transparencies in iOS and macOS. For the menubar, it goes to my desired theme[1] irrespective of the wallpaper when I set display to “Reduce Transparency”.
System Preferences > Accessibility > Display ~ Reduce Transparency
1. Dark for Dock, Menu, etc but all others Light.
a. Set theme to Light, then run
b. `defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes`
Hopefully as long as SEO results make including 'Apple' or 'iOS' redundant keywords. NSAnything suggests both when searching for errors and general debugging on StackOverflow.
Thanks for this little tool, the new menu bar in Big Sur is ridiculously transparent!
Unfortunately though for those who use tile wallpapers this will not work. I had to manually create a custom screen size tile background with Gimp and then apply the dark bar with this tool.
Has anyone else experienced a performance regression with scrolling in Big Sur? My 2020 MBA used to have perfectly smooth scrolling in every application with Catalina. Now it’s jittery and drops frames all over the place.
Strangely enough, scrolling has improved for me in many apps with my trackball on Big Sur. Scrolling in Messages used to be very difficult to do accurately; now, it works just like Safari.
I haven't tried a touchpad yet, so I wouldn't be surprised if your experience holds true as well.
> Scrolling in Messages used to be very difficult to do accurately
This, the improved search and threads in the Messages app were the main reasons for me to upgrade. The old "webview" Messages that was abandoned for many years very desperately needed that rewrite. It's not perfect right now but it's already way better and it would make sense for it to get more iterations now.
Yes, I also experienced this with my 2020 MBA after updating to Big Sur (via a clean install). Scrolling with the trackpad in Safari was especially terrible at first with jitter and the appearance of dropped frames. This seems to be better the last couple of days for me. It's still not as smooth as it was with Catalina.
Thanks for mentioning that you did a clean install and still experienced the same issue. I did the normal upgrade procedure and was considering doing a clean install but now I see that will be a waste of time. Hopefully this will be something Apple fixes in a point release.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 75.6 ms ] threadCheck "Reduce Transparency" to make your menu bar (and dock) opaque.
I happen to like it better that way.
Anyone know of a way to reduce the delay while auto-hiding the menubar? The day I find a way to instantly show the menubar when cursor-hover, I will hide that too.
It was a fad when Windows Vista introduced it. It's not useful at all. It should have disappeared when flat design was introduced, but inexplicably Apple still likes it?
There is no reason for my menu bar to be light blue or light pink or whatever other random color happens to be at the top of my wallpaper, especially when my windows cover up the wallpaper anyways.
Though I did also like the vista look when it come out.
a. Set theme to Light, then run
b. `defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes`
c. Logout and Choose “Dark Mode".
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/473758/what-does-the-ns-...
If it's lasted this long, probably forever (or until they completely replace OSX).
Not really, that's just branding. I'm talking "replaced" like they replaced Classic Mac OS.
I haven't tried a touchpad yet, so I wouldn't be surprised if your experience holds true as well.
This, the improved search and threads in the Messages app were the main reasons for me to upgrade. The old "webview" Messages that was abandoned for many years very desperately needed that rewrite. It's not perfect right now but it's already way better and it would make sense for it to get more iterations now.