After Macworld’s Rob Griffiths had weighed in on Mac OS X 10.5’s menu bar and mentioned Non-Transparent Menu Bar (NTMB) in passing, we learned two things from readers’ feedback:

1. We should have called this Non-Translucent Menu Bar. Oh well.
2. Users like options. More specifically, a lot of people seemed to like the idea of a menu bar that is opaque when the mouse is hovering over it, but gets more translucent (see? — we’re willing to learn) when the mouse is busy somewhere else.

So here we are, offering you yet another version of a product that will hopefully be rendered unnecessary once the operating system it’s written for is released. With this new version, you can build your own color gradient for NTMB’s menu bar mask (think rainbow!) as well as control the menu bar’s opacity depending on mouse position. Also fixes a potential issue with full-screen applications.

And we have even created a preliminary product page this time.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 8:20 pm by Peter Maurer, and is filed under Menu Bar Tint. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.