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From: TaliesinSoft on 13 Jan 2010 18:38
I have long wanted to have the menu at the top of the screen to appear and
disappear when needed, much as one can set the dock to do. A recent comment
here in these forums again reminded me of that want.

Not quite the same, but somewhat close, is the effect of installing a little
applet called Menu Ecllipse which allows one to set the shade of the menu
such that when not active it appears black. Thus the menubar is only visible
when the cursor is upon it.

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From: Nick Naym on 13 Jan 2010 19:02
In article 0001HW.C773B5950007C1A6B02A89BF(a)News.Individual.NET, TaliesinSoft
at taliesinsoft(a)me.com wrote on 1/13/10 6:38 PM:

> I have long wanted to have the menu at the top of the screen to appear and
> disappear when needed, much as one can set the dock to do. A recent comment
> here in these forums again reminded me of that want.
>
> Not quite the same, but somewhat close, is the effect of installing a little
> applet called Menu Ecllipse which allows one to set the shade of the menu
> such that when not active it appears black. Thus the menubar is only visible
> when the cursor is upon it.


Since it doesn't gain you any real estate, I assume you want this primarily
for aesthetics?
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From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Jan 2010 00:03
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:02:26 -0600, Nick Naym wrote (in article
<C773C942.4FBEE%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>):

[responding to my opening posting in this thread in which I described the
application Menu Eclipse which allows on to have the menu bar at the top of
the screen fade when the cursor is not over it, the fade ranging from a
light gray all the way to a full black]

> Since it doesn't gain you any real estate, I assume you want this primarily
> for aesthetics?

Yes my use of Menu Eclipse is purely for aesthetics. I happen to like a
minimalist appearance of the desktop and that includes minimizing the
appearance of the menu when it is not needed.

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James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Jan 2010 09:34
As I mentioned in my preceding posting in this thread I am one who prefers a
"minimalist" desktop on my Mac.

Here are what to me is "minimalist"....

The dock, centered at the bottom of the screen and contains only the Finder,
Trash, and icons for currently open applications and folders. The dock has
been changed in appearance to something simpler than the default using the
applet Docker. The dock icons are set at 96 pixels square.

As mentioned in the preceding posting the menu has been transformed with Menu
Shade so that it becomes black when the cursor is not over it.

The desktop background changes at one minute intervals amongst a set of
soothing (at least to me) backgrounds, the current set being a series of
sunset clooud scenes.

There are normally no icons on the desktop.

The Finder window is normally in icon view with the icons set to be 128
pixels square. The main part of the Finder window is a modest gray in color,
similar to that of the sidebar but somewhat darker.

I am a user of Spaces, having sixteen spaces configured and with each of my
most used applications having their own space. I tend to run many
applications full screen.

So, "to each his own" and I'm happy with the above although I'm sure there
are those that will gag! :-)





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From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Jan 2010 11:11
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:29:26 -0600, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article <michelle-0AE227.08292614012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>):

[responding to my having stated]

>> The dock, centered at the bottom of the screen and contains only the
>> Finder, Trash, and icons for currently open applications and folders.
>
> How do you get icons of currently open folders on the Dock?

I guess I should have stated "currently active folders" instead of "currently
open folders". What I was intending to refer to was that when one clicks kon
the "-" in the upper lefthand corner of an open document that document will
be reduced to an icon in the dock.

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James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

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