How the Mouse Pointer Deals with the Notch on the MacBook Pro

[Bads69d]

I was waiting for m2 to buy a macbook pro and i was okay with m1pro but i am definately not okay with this notch??? İ will literally not buy this and but the previous one because alllll iii sseeeee is the notchh!!!!

 

[Bads69d]

I was waiting for m2 to buy a macbook pro and i was okay with m1pro but i am definately not okay with this notch??? İ will literally not buy this and but the previous one because alllll iii sseeeee is the notchh!!!! So ugly

 

[Mainyehc]

How do you place a desktop wallpaper on top of the menu bar?

You don't. Obviously, you place it under it. But the menu bar is just a rectangle with a dynamic colour, picked by the OS in order to contrast with the background picture, with a glorified gaussian blur filter applied to it.

If you edit your wallpaper to have a matching black strip underneath your menu, it will look pitch black (or plain white, or neutral gray, or whatever colour you may wish to use instead of black, because in order to do those calculations the OS only samples the colours from that strip and not from adjacent areas; you'll never be able to emulate something as detailed as a Classic Mac OS Platinum look, sure, but you could indeed try to do something like a Leopard/Snow Leopard-like gradient if you so wished, too, maybe by using two contrasting strips and tricking the algorithm into creating the gradient for you).

Look at mine, for instance:

That's a very nice-looking wood-panelled wall in the background, from a group photo, but I really didn't like the way the brownish tones produced by that algorithm played with all my design software's UI chrome in dark mode, so I just did that trick, and I couldn't be happier.

Edit: I just tried doing that other trick I mentioned, and it seems that the OS applies an extremely heavy gaussian blur, with a radius much greater than the 24 pt. @2x / 48 px. of the regularly-sized titlebar height. So much so that you can only do noticeable gradients along the x axis, not the y axis, sadly.