Removing "system bar" and making a clear desktop?

This is a weird one I bet, but I'm curious if it's possible.

Basically I Love the look and feel on OS X, but I'd love to just have a desktop when nothing is open. (Not like Dashboard or anything)

Here's what i want:

Docking bar invisible (Easy enough with that one mod program, just remove all docked items and make Finder not appear some how?)

System bar (top of window) autohide? or make it invisible? If it would appear only when I move the mouse to the top of the window OR alternatively, only when an application has focus... That would be awesome! Not sure if an app supports this

Hard drive invisible on desktop (I think if I rename it to ".Name" (period before the name) this works?)

Anyways, this all may sound weird but it'd be really cool to just have a desktop.. then use a shortcut or move the mouse to key locations to open up the various OS items.

Kind of like using Blackbox for XFree86

To prevent the harddrive from showing up, just go to Finder preferences and uncheck the 'harddrives' box.
The dock you could just hide (command+option+d).
The menu bar I fear will be the hardest to get rid of...


Maybe there's a shapeshifter theme to make it transparent...

nullriver has a free app called menushade, which also has a transparency setting. It should work quite well to camoflage it, at least.

http://www.nullriver.com/index/products

JohnnyH said:

nullriver has a free app called menushade, which also has a transparency setting. It should work quite well to camoflage it, at least.

http://www.nullriver.com/index/products

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That dimming feature is neat, probly help with laptops especially