I totally agree that it would be nice for the menus to disappear if there has not
been any mouse input for x seconds. Even better would be if they were hot zoned
and hidden by default like display view.
I am not concerned to much with burn-in as it is pretty much a thing of the past.
I have an lcd that is used as an information center with some static images.
It has been running pretty much 24/7 for 2 years and there is no burn-in on it.
I would just like them to hide for asthetic purposes.
Just as a test change your wallpaper to black and then hide the taskbar to see if
the start orb has burnt in. It hasn't on my 2 22" Samsung LCDs which are 4 years old.