Missing Tiger’s Stripes
June 12, 2007
If you saw the WWDC keynote you know that Leopard brings a few changes to the desktop including a spiffy new translucent menu bar. Trouble is, it’s only spiffy for about 15 minutes (the new Cover Flow view in the Finder is spiffy for an even shorter amount of time) after which it becomes pretty annoying. So, I wrote a quick and dirty little app to bring back Tiger’s menu bar or at least something that looks like it. If you’re one of the lucky(?) WWDC attendees with Leopard installed, and you’re missing Tiger’s menu bar, download Stripes and bring it back.
Stripes v0.1 – 126kB
You rock, you know that?!?
You rock, you know that?!?
Not sure what makes you think so, but thanks Kat! 🙂
I just love it when people tinker with the menubar. I miss apps that let me fork around with my menubar, and I appreciate anybody who writes them.
As great as OSX.> is, I have to say that I miss all the groovy little things the TigerTech people did to menubars, desktops, etc.
You give me too much credit. This app is very trivial. If you really want to play around with the look of your Mac, give this a shot.
ahhhhhhh. much better.
ahhhhhhh. much better.
What’s amazing are the number of people defending the menu bar in the comments of this TUAW article. How can you defend something like this!?
http://www.somegeekintn.com/images/blog/menubar.jpg
I rotate through several desktops and when this one popped up, I knew it had to go. I suppose I could’ve edited all my desktop pics, but why? I can not for the life of me figure how Apple thought this would be a good thing.