Thanks for the ideas. Unfortunately …
The grey menu at the right is in fact harder to read, sorry.
From the UI design point of view, you need minimum 160 of 255 contrast between letters and background. Grey background is to avoid. So you best have either have white background and black letters, or black background with white letters. We have a dark standard theme, white panels would not fit. Same goes for the tooltips. Black fits better.
The transparent menus are discutable. I love the way it is. But i don’t know where this is defined anyways ^^
Same goes for the icons. For me it’s a gods gift not to have the need to read the text. I read the text two or three times to khow what is where, then i orient at the icons in the text menus. Faster 