After nearly 2 months with laptop only, I finally could switch back to my tower.
And surprise, the menu buttons have got some nice glowing neon like highlighting on mouse over.
Much nicer than what I had seen up to now there on the laptop
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I had not expected such an effect of the video hardware and the video settings on the menus,
especially some bad on low performance GPU (Intel HD3000 of my laptop)
No doubt, the menus still need a bit of work

Some items are not 3D (e.g. some buttons like "send message" or
And the Back button at the bottom left has no color, where the others have green or red - which is a bit too bright when not highlighted.