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I only use WPMU for testing plugins, but I found the automatic activation of the admin bar to be one royal PITA. Surely it would have made more sense to have it disabled by default, and allow people to enable it if they wanted.

Additionally, I have one plugin active that created one top level menu item - that caused the admin bar to go onto 2 lines - badly - at my screen size. When I eventually found the setting to turn it off I was surprised to find so few settings. Surely there should be more you can configure to make it even remotely useful. Things like using the icons instead of text would solve a lot of wrapping issues.

I also think that replicating the while menu, unless you are going to remove the standard left hand menu, to be OTT - so another setting to choose what is displayed might make it more useful as well.

Apologies if thisis in the wrong section.

it is not in the wrong section, but you should have searched before posting: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=10850

I did see that - although it is about the admin bar the content of the thread was sufficiently different for me to think that this deserved a new thread. Apologies if that isn't/wasn't the case.

k, maybe I was too quick to reply, but the link I gave, I think contains a link to a modded version too :-) maybe that one is better suited for you?

I think you're missing the point - I don't use MU on a regular basis - I was venting my complaint about a feature added and enabled by default.

As a non-regular MU user I can't see the benefit of it at all - so I assume others find it very very useful for it to have been added to the core.

It's an easy way to get to any other blog you own on the entire system.

I mostly think it was plunked there to solve this issue, which was handled differently in previous releases.

Elfin I agree the bar is a problem for a lot of people that work at lower resolutions and I think I know the plugin you were testing.

Thank you very much.

If you ever need to have a plugin tested on MU let me know and that way you won't have to worry about the admin bar.