I'm having to adjust the CSS for every site just so I can make out the menu.

Once installed admin_menu becomes the main navigational tool for the admin side of the site. Removing the opacity helps me to focus better on what I'm doing and allows me to read the text more easily.

Would you consider a patch to remove the opacity?

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mcrittenden commented

IMHO the translucency is great. I could live with a checkbox to disable that but I wouldn't want to get rid of it altogether.

Plus, it's easy enough to just override in the theme's CSS like you said.

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psynaptic commented

Why do you think it's great? You just said you like it, not why.

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mcrittenden commented

psynaptic: because it looks nice without being annoying, at least IMHO. I've never had any trouble reading with it.

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psynaptic commented

I thought that might be the case; because it looks cool.

It's much more readable when you set the opacity to 1. Try it and let me know if you think it performs better, if it's easier to read.

It's not a huge thing for me to do this for every site I build but it is quite tedious. I can't understand why people would choose form over function.

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mcrittenden commented

It's barely translucent as is. My point was that form is ok as long as it doesn't affect function, which IMO is the case here. But let's see if sun has anything to say.

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psynaptic commented

Ok, time for some screenshots..

These are the last 3 sites I developed and as (hopefully) you can see the menu is not usable with the default opacity setting:

http://skitch.com/freestyle/bsyef/admin-menu-example1
http://skitch.com/freestyle/bsyeg/admin-menu-example2
http://skitch.com/freestyle/bsye8/admin-menu-example3

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sun
Primary language German
Location Karlsruhe
commented
Status: Active » Fixed

What you guessed, but probably didn't know is that each sub-menu level has 12% less opacity than the parent menu level. That's why deeper levels of the menu are harder to read than upper levels.

Latest 3.x-dev contains a fix for this already, so I'm marking this as fixed.

btw, you can always override the opacity in your theme with a one-liner.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.