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Menu bar: the menu follows the in-app appearance - #286

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On macOS 26 the menu bar is transparent and takes its light or dark tint from the wallpaper. The menu used to copy the status item button's appearance, so in Dark Mode with a bright wallpaper it opened light.

The menu now takes NSApp's effective appearance when it opens: the appearance chosen in Settings, or the system's mode when set to follow the system (tao's set_theme sets NSApp.appearance, nil for follow-system). The two lines on the bar itself still follow the menu bar, so they stay legible on any wallpaper.

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On macOS 26 the menu bar is transparent and takes its light or dark tint
from the wallpaper, so in Dark Mode with a bright wallpaper the menu opened
light. The menu now takes NSApp's effective appearance: the appearance
chosen in Settings, or the system's mode when set to follow the system.
The bar's own two lines still follow the menu bar so they stay legible.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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