WTF? Transparent Leopard Menu Bar Sucks

Okay class, which one is better-looking and more functional:  A transparent one that looks weird and impossible to read or the old tried and true opaque one?  How did Steve Jobs and the rest of Apple let this fly?  There isn’t even an option to make the menu bar opaque.  Download OpaqueMenuBar app to fix this glaring problem.

 

Transparent Menubar

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Opaque Menubar

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