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Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Nicely unobtrusive. And the approach of showing progress rather than a pedantic number is a clever innovation - much more relevant for many uses. Is there a way to pause it?

No, there's no way to pause it right now. I will add this to the feature request list. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

#35
I just bought it; great idea and execution! Some feedback:

- Pause: say I set it to two hours and sometime later a client rings and we have a 30min conversation. A pause button would be very helpful.

- Full screen mode on 10.7: the bar isn't narrower than on normal mode.

- A way to set the default snooze length

Good job!

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The app handles full screen mode (3rd of 4 screenshots on the app store).

Yes sir, the full screen support was actually the longest part of my development! :) I ended up open sourcing a little bit of code from Timebar — code to detect when the user is switching to/from a full screen app. https://github.com/shinypb/FullScreenDetector

Ah so it does. Nice! I'll be giving this another go around in the morning then :)

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

#37
Very clever! Some feedback:

* Text can get truncated sometimes: http://f.cl.ly/items/1G3L1F2D3P032T2F3m3E/Screen%20Shot%2020... * Is it possible to change the actual menu bar color? The overlay kind of makes it hard to make out the other items in the menu bar. Maybe an opacity setting would help.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

#38
Good idea! Two things:

- Spotlight searches makes it flicker

- Make it narrow for non-native (i.e. not only lion style) full screen aswell. It's awfully disturbing together with full screen iTerm, MacVim etc.

Other than that it's quite neat! I'd rather have it fill than empty though, maybe make that an option? ;)

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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post #35

I just bought it; great idea and execution! Some feedback: - Pause: say I set it to two hours and sometime later a client rings and we have a 30min conversation. A pause button would be very helpful. - Full screen mode on 10.7: the bar isn't narrower than on normal mode. - A way to set the default snooze length Good job!

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