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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Mac OS X “Tiger”: Menu Barf

July 14th, 2004


Am I the only one who thinks the blue-background Apple and Spotlight
menus, at opposite ends of the previewed OS 10.3 “Tiger” menu bar, give
the appearance of being, well, clicked-upon?

Coloring a menu
header blue and inverting the icon or text underneath is how Apple has
(for the last ten years) shown an active menu, which is a pending
action. To see a screen that seems to have not one but two
perpetually pending actions tingles my spider-sense, and in a Very Bad
Way.

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