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What happens on non-notch macs, if the active app has enough menu items that your menubar is full? What would happen to the iStat app (or any other menu item?)
by ninkendo 5y ago
What happens on non-notch macs, if the active app has enough menu items that your menubar is full? What would happen to the iStat app (or any other menu item?) Would it be drawn-over? Perhaps partially so? I honestly have never even come close to this scenario on any desktop/laptop (even when I try my best to make it happen, like launching every menubar app I know of, and setting the display settings to the highest zoom level) so I don’t even know what the behavior is.
It seems to me like the notch is removing something like 10% of your available menubar area, but… that’s not that much. If you’re running into issues where menubar items have to draw into the notch area, it stands to reason you’re running very close to not being able to see them even without the notch, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: I was able to get my 2016 MBP to have an overflowed menubar, by setting the display settings to “Larger Text” and opening Xcode (which has a lot of menus). It straight-up drops menu items that aren’t able to be rendered… no overflow scrolling or anything. You have to switch to another app (with fewer menus) to see the missing items. I guess the notch makes this 10% or so more likely to happen?