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> Most software doesn’t use the whole menu bar anyway. No, but all those little things you've installed that put up a menu bar item on the right add up - I'm s
by egypturnash 5y ago
> Most software doesn’t use the whole menu bar anyway.
No, but all those little things you've installed that put up a menu bar item on the right add up - I'm sitting at a cafe on my laptop right now, and the menu widgets come to pretty much the center. If I unhide the less-frequently-used ones that I hide with Bartender then they're covering 5/6 of the width of the screen.
I am an artist and spend a lot of time with Illustrator in fullscreen mode, with no visible menus. It'll be pretty annoying to have this thing jamming into the middle of my work area. Especially given that I think I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've used the cameras hiding in the frame of my previous Macs. Anyone playing games will be annoyed by it too.
Hopefully they will not make this same move in the next round of Airs, as that's what my next computer's probably going to be.
- mbreese 5y ago> spend a lot of time with Illustrator in fullscreen mode, with no visible menus My guess is that for these situations and for full screen games, you’ll see the screen size reduced by the notch height. And if not, I’m sure there will be an extension that makes the menubar a black rectangle. Not optimal, but there are ways around the notch, if it bothers you too much.
- banana_giraffe 5y agoYep: They hinted at this with some of the screen shots they showed: https://imgur.com/a/McNBTHY https://imgur.com/a/McNBTHY I don't know enough about MacOS GUI development, but I'm guessing if an app requests a full screen display, it gets told the resolution is the resolution minus the top, and that's just blacked out.
- egypturnash 5y agoI guess sometime next year I'll get to find out if Illustrator actually requests Full Screen Display or if it just throws up a window with no chrome that covers the menu bar! I am pretty sure it does the latter.
- josephg 5y agoSounds easy enough to fix in software if its a problem. Mind you, if it is a problem, who knows how long it'll take adobe to actually fix it.