I wonder if this is a mistake. I thought the hack was not the menu bar but messing with the icons in the finder so they have a status icon on top of the normal

I wonder if this is a mistake. I thought the hack was not the menu bar but messing with the icons in the finder so they have a status icon on top of the normal file icon (so a checkbox if they're uploaded to the server). That's quite a bit less common than menu bar changes and I think when they first did it, there was not an API for it (not sure if there is now in Lion).