Apple did the right thing in Mac OS X 10.5.2 and introduced a proper way to turn off menu bar translucency from the "Desktop & Screensaver" system preference pane.
We'll leave this online — including the now partially outdated description of Menu Bar Tint's purpose — for those who need to stay with Mac OS X 10.5.0/1 and those who want to user Menu Bar Tint for another reason. However, most users won't need Menu Bar Tint anymore.
This little application is for those who, like us, don't want a translucent menu bar when working with Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" and have thus made it opaque by means of Steve Miner's environment variable trick. Once you've made your menu bar opaque this way, you'll notice that the menu bar has become very white, and that it looks very plain.
| Unaltered | Miner | Miner + Menu Bar Tint |
Running Menu Bar Tint in the background — as a log-in item, preferably — will make your newly opaque menu bar feel more at home among all the other user interface elements in Mac OS X. You can even have the menu bar's tint depend on whether your mouse hovers over it. And if you feel like going wild with colors, you're free to do so, too.
