Comment by the_other
1 day ago
Off-topic...
I wish Apple would bring back the white menubar background and the coloured logo.
The white menubar makes the whole computer easier to use in a small but constant way. The coloured apple icon would suggest they no longer have their heads stuck up their assess and might bring back "fun" rather than "showing off" to their design process. And then maybe, maybe... with that "suggestion" symbolised in the UI, we can hope they might bring back the more rigorous user-centric design process they used to be famous for.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/23/macos-tahoe-beta-2-menu...
Are they really changing the UI up again? I am actually so done at this point. The endless UI churn drives me absolutely mad, but I suppose when there's nothing left to do, making it look different is easy.
I suppose a built in volume mixer is still too much to ask for though.
Do you harbour an honest expectation that computer UIs will look the same in 2035 as they do in 2025? That would prove to be a silly thing to hope for if you were to backtest it.
It’s not churn its change, and it’s inevitable. No sense getting worked up over it.
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Nice, thanks. I'll use that when I upgrade.
But I'm not going to upgrade whilst the back/next buttons are floating 3m above the window as suggested in that screen shot.
Turning “Reduce Transparency” on in Accessibility > Display will solidify the menubar in both light and dark modes.
I go through phases with transparency off or on.
Same.
Sometimes I enjoy the translucent menus. They make the machine look "glossy" and expensive. But they're definitely harder to read than opaque flat ones.
With "reduce transparency" on, it's better, but the menubar still isn't white. It's a textured light grey that's closer to the look of an unfocused app window than the solid, dependable, flat thing I wish it still was.
What about setting a white background, which yields a white menubar?
A color logo might be added with an overlay app – or you reminisce a black&white screen.
So are we supposed to make custom backgrounds with a 30px white bar on top instead of expecting this to be an option in the settings like in every other sanely customizable OS?
seconding the overlay app, i forgot the name but there was an app that can configure the appearance of the menubar. maybe it's my menubar icon organizer? Not dozer or bartender, but can't recall right now
Ice organizes menubar icons and can alter the bar's appearance.