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Another top offender is F.lux. You set it up one time and forget about it, and yet it doesn't have the option to remove it from the menu bar.
I make Coffitivity.com and our Mac App is a menu bar app, and people love it. I'm not here to talk about that - we've never had a complaint about where it lives, where it lives is (as far as we can tell) is flawless in the menu bar. What is shocking is how many users report bugs about the app because they think nothing happens when they open it, even though we alert them precisely to where it is with a dropdown. To a…
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It's a little grey bell with an ugly and nonstandard menu attached to it. It showed up the other day on my machine and I had exactly the same rage reaction as the OP. I ended up learning that you can go to chrome://flags and disable it—but not before Google had bitten another chunk out of my formerly positive feelings towards them.
Oh, _that_ thing. It's sort of tricky to handle HTML5 Notifications without such a thing. What does Firefox do?
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Not everything that puts crap in the menubar is crap. The Google Chrome Notification is an egregious offender - it appeared without warning, ugly and unretinafied, and can only be (temporarily) removed by (1) doing everything it asks, (2) then quitting and relaunching Chrome. It's highly-visible systemwide placement for minor system-oriented tasks, and unnecessary given how much interface Chrome already has to work w…
Chrome is becoming worse and worse, just to push Google's interests further. I don't get why there are still hackers who don't use just Chromium by now.
When 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 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. I really wish all things like these were first written as public libraries and that the CLI/GUIs were optional defaults that you could forego entirely. That way, you could write higher-level programs to automate tedious tasks, without having to write extra code t…
Of course on OSX the historical way to do that has been for the application to provide an applescript library.
I make Coffitivity.com and our Mac App is a menu bar app, and people love it. I'm not here to talk about that - we've never had a complaint about where it lives, where it lives is (as far as we can tell) is flawless in the menu bar. What is shocking is how many users report bugs about the app because they think nothing happens when they open it, even though we alert them precisely to where it is with a dropdown. To a…
This I can confirm. Worse: we got some bad reviews (app's not working) in the app store for this.
After we decided to display the dock icon those reports went away. More curiously no one has complained about the dock icon yet.
Skype on Android has a permanent icon there. That team should be ashamed of themselves.
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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…
Argh yeah. Compiling ImageMagick is easier than using GIMP. Surprised someone hasn't made a LOGO-like language for raster editing. Is there any specific motivation to switch to linux? OSX might not be libre, but it mostly works (apart from setrlimit).
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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…
To be fair, it's a LOT better since they added the single window mode. I've been using it since then and I am quite satisfied (although I am not a heavy user). Maybe you should give it a more serious try. Inkscape is also pretty good I think.