Less Transparent Changes
Despite Steve Jobs’ sell job at Macworld on Leopard’s “cool” transparent menu bar, the people’s voices have been heard. Today’s update to OS X includes the following two changes:
Desktop
Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.
Adjusts menus to be slightly-less translucent overall.
It’s interesting how little design aesthetic changes like this get reversed post-launch.
Another minor change to Mail:
Mail now automatically disables the (unsupported) third-party plugin GrowlMail version 1.1.2 or earlier to avoid issues.
So are there “supported” third-party plugins that I don’t know about?
There are more interesting Dock fixes too:
Dock
Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view.
Thankfully this once pre-release feature has been reinstated for the Dock. I kinda felt the stacks functionality was a little half-baked without those options.