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Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by victor106 »

hbn wrote: post #34
hombre_fatal wrote: post #21

Earlier 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.

Interesting. do all these apps work the same way? Apple does not provide any API's to modify the menubar?

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by mdasen »

I love the idea of putting things in the menu bar, but it seems like the apps still have to be taking up space in the dock. I can't have WhatsApp, Signal, FB Messenger, Slack, Discord, etc. tucked away running in the background and popping up in my menu bar when there's something to respond to. I have to have them crowding my dock with half a dozen icons.

Is there a way to hide the items from the dock and just have them in the menu bar?

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by gwbas1c »

mdasen wrote: post #42

I love the idea of putting things in the menu bar, but it seems like the apps still have to be taking up space in the dock. I can't have WhatsApp, Signal, FB Messenger, Slack, Discord, etc. tucked away running in the background and popping up in my menu bar when there's something to respond to. I have to have them crowding my dock with half a dozen icons. Is there a way to hide the items from the dock and just have t…

When I did Mac programming a decade ago, there was an app metadata flag, inside the bundle, to hide the icon in the Dock.

Now that apps are digitally signed, it might require a few more hoops to manipulate the app. (Your Mac protects you from running tampered apps.)

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by guzik »

belthesar wrote: post #38

This 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. [1] https://xbarapp.com/ [2] https://swiftbar.app/

glad you mentioned xbar, and your comment is ranked high (so maybe someone can help me out). I've been a long-time user of xbar, but recently it stopped showing up in the menubar on macOS 15.2. Even a simple script with just print doesn't display anything. Anyone else running into this?

btw. I'm starting to think xbar might be abandoned - it hasn’t seen updates in a while.

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by savolai »

jedberg wrote: post #44

The problem I have is too many things in my menubar. I like having all the info at a glance, but when I go mobile, only a few items fit before it runs out of space. Not sure what a good solution there is.

Relevant? https://badgeify.app/how-to-fix-mac-menu-bar-icons-disappear...

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by latchkey »

savolai wrote: post #46
jedberg wrote: post #44

The problem I have is too many things in my menubar. I like having all the info at a glance, but when I go mobile, only a few items fit before it runs out of space. Not sure what a good solution there is.

Relevant? https://badgeify.app/how-to-fix-mac-menu-bar-icons-disappear...

Bartender was sold off and became dubious in nature.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584606

Ice (mentioned several times on this page) is the open source replacement.

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by [deleted] »

belthesar wrote: post #38

This 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. [1] https://xbarapp.com/ [2] https://swiftbar.app/

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Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by [deleted] »

Nezteb wrote: post #40

Another 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. [1] https://github.com/matryer/xbar [2] https://menubarx.app/ [3] https://github.com/exelban/stats

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