Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
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Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#2One issue I've run into with BitBar is that you would need to install dependencies systemwide which I don't want to. A solution I found was to create a virtualenv for a specific script (or BitBar as a whole) and just put the path of the Python executable in the hashbang of the BitBar script, ie:
#!/path/to/the/virtualenv/bin/python
Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#3I like that they have some to show the number of unread Slack notifications, but the scripts are necessarily kind of hacky in order to deal with rate-limiting. It's ridiculous that Slack doesn't have such a feature built-in because people have been asking for it for years.
Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#4How does it compare to Swiftbar[0]? Any reasons to use Xbar over SwiftBar given that the latter was built with a stack that is more "native" to Mac than Golang?
Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#5I like that they have some to show the number of unread Slack notifications, but the scripts are necessarily kind of hacky in order to deal with rate-limiting. It's ridiculous that Slack doesn't have such a feature built-in because people have been asking for it for years.
Doesn't fix it, but supposedly there's an undocumented api endpoint here: https://api.slack.com/api/client.counts?token=token_here
It will return "has_unreads=true" for channels that have unread notifications. So perhaps better than a naive brute force traversal.
Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#6I can't find any reasons why it was rewritten.
Was it C before? (I can't tell, because https://github.com/matryer/bitbar redirects to xbar)
Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#7How does it compare to Swiftbar[0]? Any reasons to use Xbar over SwiftBar given that the latter was built with a stack that is more "native" to Mac than Golang? [0] https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar
This was the first question that came to mind for me too.
Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#8I can't find any reasons why it was rewritten. Was it C before? (I can't tell, because https://github.com/matryer/bitbar redirects to xbar)
Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#9I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far:
https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck
https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
#10Bitbar-esque tools are fantastic. There are a wide variety on Linux, watching with slightly different formatting, but converting isn't a big pain. Being able to toss something together to display a portion of a curl call in a few minutes is great. I used to hate the top bar concept years ago when I was a windows user, but after switching to Unix for the past handful of years, I couldn't go back.