GTFO of my menu bar • Hacker News Board

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

#21

Post by hablahaha » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:07 AM UTC

dmak wrote: post #2

Every application should provide a monochrome icon!

And a retina one!

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by tlrobinson » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:08 AM UTC

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #3

Isn'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...

Crap like Google Chrome? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=247814

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by baby » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:10 AM UTC

Especially now that there is this apple-like bar in Windows 7 and 8. Applications like Skype or Evernote don't need to be in the task bar anymore.

For things like Google Music, I'm glad it is in the task bar since it is actually doing a background job that kind fuck with you (if you're squatting a slow wifi for example). Not having the visual reminder just makes me forget that it is actually running.

EDIT: I just noticed that they removed Skype from the task bar. Now I'm not complaining anymore :)

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by baby » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:12 AM UTC

malandrew wrote: post #12

GuiA wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you get to complain about these sort of things when you make the choice to use OSX.

I'm on the verge of setting up my MBP to double boot to Arch or Debian and slowly moving as much as possible to Linux. Unfortunately, neither Illustrator or Photoshop are available on Linux. Are their open-source equivalents anywhere near the quality of their Adobe counterparts yet? I've yet to try InkScape, but I know that the last time I used Gimp, it was excruciating. I would rather work via ImageMagick, RMagick o…

and Netflix. Although it could be good for productivity.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by SmileyKeith » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:13 AM UTC

This drives me insane. As long as applications let me remove them I'm good to go though.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by hablahaha » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:14 AM UTC

Speaking of menu bars... I really dislike how the current application's menu bar can infringe on the icon bar on OSX. I realize that on Windows, icons also minimize, but on OSX you can't just show all the icons like you can in Windows. If I'm in an app with a lot of menus, I have to switch to a less menu intensive app to get to an icon I want (usually Hangouts) (is there some way to change this? - Google returned nothing). Back when I switched to OSX from Windows, I was baffled by the one bar to rule them all approach. While it has it merits, allowing the bar to show infinite icons and letting apps control their menu/options width detracts from its 'cleanliness'.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by lylebarrere » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:17 AM UTC

geetee wrote: post #5

dmak wrote: post #2

Every 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

I wish the monochrome icon for Dropbox would do a better job showing me when the app is syncing or in sync. That's the only reason I still have the color icon.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by moonie1 » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:21 AM UTC

Hold cmd-option and drag it out. Problem solved.

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by interpol_p » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:28 AM UTC

MaxGabriel wrote: post #6

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #3

Isn'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

The TestFlight one drives me nuts because it's non retina. This is made worse by the fact that it's genuinely useful for me so I have to keep the blurry thing in my menu. (I upload 10-12 builds per week and it makes it easy.)

Re: GTFO of my menu bar

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Post by w1ntermute » Sun, Dec 01, 2013, 2:41 AM UTC

malandrew wrote: post #12

GuiA wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you get to complain about these sort of things when you make the choice to use OSX.

I'm on the verge of setting up my MBP to double boot to Arch or Debian and slowly moving as much as possible to Linux. Unfortunately, neither Illustrator or Photoshop are available on Linux. Are their open-source equivalents anywhere near the quality of their Adobe counterparts yet? I've yet to try InkScape, but I know that the last time I used Gimp, it was excruciating. I would rather work via ImageMagick, RMagick o…

Just run those apps in a Windows VM. VirtualBox seamless mode is quite nice.