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Does it really need to sit in my menubar?
by webwielder2 5y ago
Does it really need to sit in my menubar?
- JadeNB 5y agoI've never understood why apps get the final say on what goes in my menubar in macOS. Skype says I need a menubar icon; I say I don't. Why does Skype's opinion trump mine?
- ativzzz 5y agoBecause the Apple software product model isn't built to be customizable by the end user.
- leppr 5y agoI don't understand how you can be surprised at a lack of customization options on an Apple OS. It's literally one of their selling points.
- JadeNB 5y agoYes, exactly—Apple decides what's best for me. I know they'll fiddle with my menubar as they please. But it's very much outside their usual mode of operations to let random other apps decide what's best for me.
- EricE 5y agoIt would be nice if it were built into the OS, but especially when I had smaller screens on a laptop I found Bartender an invaluable application.
- turadg 5y agoFwiw there are some apps to hide menu bar icons: - Open source https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer - Freemium https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/ https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/ - $15 https://www.macbartender.com/ https://www.macbartender.com/
- smoldesu 5y agoThat's what I was thinking. On top of that, if it's only a menubar app, why wouldn't you write it in some platform-agnostic language? I have a similar "toolbar sitter" app I wrote with a couple Rust crates and a free afternoon, and that compiles to Windows/Mac/Linux fine. I guess it's more of a Swift exercise than a full-fledged program.
- rknightuk 5y agoYou're right it was more of a project for me try out some stuff rather than having a plan to release an app for everyone.