I actually wonder how I can get them out? Every background service wants some screen estate in the menu bar, but the app that I need is always hidden behind the notch of my MacBook. Why can’t I hide the ones I don’t frequently need?
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#32Since other people are sharing their fav menu bar manager, shoutout to bartender app: https://www.macbartender.com
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#33Great app! I'd love to support it through https://setapp.com/
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you see some other way to resolve this, I'm sure Ice welcomes contributions.
I don't think a project's core security concerns should be left up to my charity. I get why they need the permission to implement their cutesy drag and drop interface. But I'd like to hear why these apps can't continue to hide menu icons after you've revoked the permission. Ice and Bartender at least require you to grant it at all times last I looked a few months ago.
As far as I understand it works by grabbing screenshots of your menu bar and redrawing overtop of it. It can't do that if it doesn't have the permission to do screengrabs.
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#35Maybe you should rename your "lifetime duo" to "lifetime trio"?
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#36I actually wonder how I can get them out? Every background service wants some screen estate in the menu bar, but the app that I need is always hidden behind the notch of my MacBook. Why can’t I hide the ones I don’t frequently need?
There’s a great app called Bartender that does this. I’ve been using it for over 10 years. Very stable.
You should know at some point in the past year or so it was silently sold to a shady company which makes me VERY wary for something I gave screen recording permissions to. I'd never install Bartender on my machine again.
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#37Maybe you should rename your "lifetime duo" to "lifetime trio"?
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Perhaps it’s your phrasing? To use a particularly obnoxious phrasing from Wired Magazine as demonstration of how the tone of feedback can influence how it’s perceived:
Tired: “maybe you should rename X to Y”; lacks an explanation of why, ‘maybe’ is often sneering / condescending in this usage, assumes that proposed solution is correct
Wired: “fyi there’s a copy error on the site: X doesn’t match Z, should it be Y?”; explains the problem, asks if theorized solution is correct, makes proposing a solution optional
The chosen example tone is not intended as a reflection or judgment of you in any regard, but the necessity of this disclaimer supports my point.
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#38This seems like a polished, limited in scope version of what xbar[1] and SwiftBar[2] does. Personally, I love using the menu bar as the place for at-a-glance information. I currently use SwiftBar to provide status indicators for my audio devices with some hacky scripts I wrote to talk to my mixer.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think a project's core security concerns should be left up to my charity. I get why they need the permission to implement their cutesy drag and drop interface. But I'd like to hear why these apps can't continue to hide menu icons after you've revoked the permission. Ice and Bartender at least require you to grant it at all times last I looked a few months ago.
As far as I understand it works by grabbing screenshots of your menu bar and redrawing overtop of it. It can't do that if it doesn't have the permission to do screengrabs.
I deserve the downvotes for my first line, heh.
Maybe I can redeem myself by clarifying that the real frustration here is with bad macOS UX, not people trying to hack around it. I barked up the wrong tree.
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#40Another good name would have been "Barify".
I use a combo of xbar [1] and Menubarx [2]. I used to have several widgets just for system stats but eventually moved to mac-stats [3] for that.