[megrimlock]

> not the biggest fan of the transparent movement

Completely agreed: the fact that OSX UI (and iTunes) change in arbitrarily small ways with each release seems like evidence that they are orbiting a local maximum rather than making absolute progress. But Linux distros and Windows are just as bad. And much more interesting advances are happening with multitouch on iOS, so I give Apple a pass.

At least there's a pref for the menu: System Preferences > Desktop > Translucent Menu Bar.