I'm fine with them, those are gamers. But transparency, ohh now that's so anti-performance i'm going to puke all over and make it opaque again!
As a matter of fact, the little arrow you see in my taskbar just aside "Raccourcis", which means "Shortcuts", will toggle about 36 apps i use the most. It's only an additional bar i've compacted so I could only see the arrow. Clean and still better than having to navigate thru my godly classed start menu that has like 10 levels.