GTFO of my menu bar
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GTFO of my menu bar
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Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#2Every application should provide a monochrome icon!
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#3Isn't the better option to just not install crap on your computer? This sounds like complaining that you don't like television shows on a certain channel when you have a thousand to choose from...
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#4I'm not sure being ignorant of things running inconspicuously in the background is much better than having an icon there.
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#5Every application should provide a monochrome icon!
Just got a MacBook Pro and the Dropbox icon has been bothering me. Sure enough there was a setting for this! Thanks :D
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#6Isn't the better option to just not install crap on your computer? This sounds like complaining that you don't like television shows on a certain channel when you have a thousand to choose from...
Adobe CS and testflight are two pretty key tools that were camping in my menu bar, and both are tools that have been necessary for my job at some point. Not just crap I can do without
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#7When apps install in the menubar, my biggest concern isn't their visual presence, but the resources they are taking up by being one of those apps. The Adobe updater app for example doesn't need to be anything more than a cron job.
I only tolerate the Adobe app because I use Illustrator and Photoshop, but I certainly don't need the other crap like Behance and Typekit. the the Google+ification of services everything. If you want to add a cloud component to things, fine, just make sure it's 100% optional and that I only need to be aware of that option at install time and never see it again if I choose not to install it.
I really wish all things like these were first written at terminal CLI apps first and that the GUIs were optional defaults that you could forego entirely.
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#8I never would have noticed that the Dropbox icon was the only colorful icon up there if I hadn't read this article. Oh well.
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#9When apps install in the menubar, my biggest concern isn't their visual presence, but the resources they are taking up by being one of those apps. The Adobe updater app for example doesn't need to be anything more than a cron job. I only tolerate the Adobe app because I use Illustrator and Photoshop, but I certainly don't need the other crap like Behance and Typekit. the the Google+ification of services everything. I…
I don't think you get to complain about these sort of things when you make the choice to use OSX.
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#10I never would have noticed that the Dropbox icon was the only colorful icon up there if I hadn't read this article. Oh well.
You can change it to be monochrome in your Dropbox preferences.