Thank Larry for that. It appears Apple isn't sticking its fingers in its ears and going 'LALALALALALA!' after all, at least as far as Leopard is concerned. Of the six things that most irritate me about Mac OS x 10.5 (and I'm not alone in any of these, it seems), BabyGotMac reports that two of them will be fixed in the imminent Mac OS X 10.5.2 update: the translucent menu bar (which reports suggest will become an option within Desktop preferences) and the lack of list-based menus from the Dock (which will make a return in a 'Stacks' option cunningly called 'Lists').

This is the sort of thing that makes me happy, because I'm sad like that, but it also shows that Apple isn't ignoring everyone's bitching. Which is nice. And if you're wondering what the other four things are, two are perfectly user-fixable (the ugly 3D Dock theme, which I've hacked, and am desperately hoping Apple will leave be, and the content of Stacks not being obvious, which can be dealt with using overlays), and two are pretty critical things that are likely to be fixed by Apple ASAP anyway (Mac OS X randomly not being able to connect to a wireless network upon booting/waking, and Finder not being able to unmount volumes).

Now I have to find something else to be grumpy about.