User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-4557798-20150130013853

It's an improvement. You've gone from six steps backwards to four. The next step should be allowing us to customize the color to make it fit our wiki's color pattern. The white bar is an eyesore, and always will be. This will not change, no matter how many updates you give it.

The transparency doesn't actually solve my main issue with the bar; namely, the fact that it lowers the amount of content that will fit on the page. The search bar still covers up the information even if the bar itself becomes transparent. I'd much rather have a collapse button in the corner, like the bottom bar.