Ios-like Dark Menu Bar For Mac
Is this legit? A friend was telling me you can now enable “dark menus” on Mac OS X and that it makes the entire interface look more cool. What is it, and how do I become dark menu enabled? Though it sounds like something related to the Avengers or perhaps Batman, turns out that there is a new feature in Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite” that’s called “dark menus” and it has nothing to do with evil powers from another planet, Darth Vader or even Loki doing something mischievous. 🙂 Instead, it’s a way to flip the color scheme of the top menu bar and the bottom Dock on your Mac system. And it does look pretty cool. I have it enabled on my Mac and I like how it lets me focus just a bit more on the window I’m working in by blending the menu in with the actual edge of my MacBook Pro.
To start, here’s the standard top menu color scheme: Pretty standard stuff we’ve seen for years. Note that it’s slightly translucent too. On the bottom of the screen, the Dock: To enable dark menus go to “System Preferences” General and look at the very top of the window.
I’ve chopped it up a bit to make the screen shot smaller, but the top looks like this: See that option near the top? “Use dark menu bar and Dock”. Check it and things change instantly! Now the top menu bar looks like this: A huge change. The Dock change is a lot more subtle, however: As I said, I really like it, especially since most of my desktop images tend to be dark and have a lot of black in them. And who knows, perhaps this is a small step towards Apple letting us change some of the basic color scheme of Mac OS X.
Ios-like Dark Menu Bar For Mac Pro
Or nahhhh, probably not. Anyway, now you know how to enable it.