Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
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Re: Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
#2Glad that there are now open source options after Bartender was acquired.
Re: Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
#3Not the submitter, but I installed this a couple days ago to replace Bartender. For those not following along at home, the Bartender author just sold it to some sketchy app mill. It’s an app that legitimately requires screen recording permissions to work. I trusted the old author’s reputation. I have zero trust in the own owner.
Ice isn’t as good yet. It’s not nearly so configurable. For example, you can either hide all icons or none. You can’t decide to show some of them all the time. That’s a bummer. I’ll still happily accept that trade off to replace Bartender, which I’d previously purchased several versions of. It’s dead to me.
Great job so far, Ice. I hope you keep improving!
Re: Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
#4I know some people like it, but I find the top menu bar on a mac extremely non ergonomic.
The argument goes that it's an easy spot to hit: Just move your mouse to the top.
But they forget that in order to use the menu bar you have to activate the app!
In other OS's, if you want to pick an item from an inactive app, just click - it will activate the app, and pick the item from the menu bar at the same time.
Not so with a mac. If you click on an active area of an inactive window on a mac, the click is eaten, and you have to click a second time to actually do what you are trying to do. Same with the menu bar, first you have to activate the app, then you can click a second time on the menu bar.
I do not like it.
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#5I particularly like the explanation on naming it ice:
> Because your menu bar becomes like ice, allowing your menu bar items to slide away
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#6Hidden Bar is good enough
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
Re: Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
#7Not the submitter, but I installed this a couple days ago to replace Bartender. For those not following along at home, the Bartender author just sold it to some sketchy app mill. It’s an app that legitimately requires screen recording permissions to work. I trusted the old author’s reputation. I have zero trust in the own owner. Ice isn’t as good yet. It’s not nearly so configurable. For example, you can either hide…
It’s missing a lot, especially for a MacBook with a notch. I went with ibar until ice or any other app gets more features that bartender had.
-Difficult to configure unless you don’t have a lot of apps in the top bar. -No way to scroll through the list. -Does not offer a way to show the extra icons in a bar that displays below. -No search functionality. This is something I used frequently. -Folders which were recently added to Bartender was a nice option.
I do hope the developer is planning on adding more features.
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#8I would love to try this but hesitant as I couldn't find a privacy policy.
Can it be added or maybe I just couldn't find this?
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#9I use Hidden Bar (https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden) for this. It works well enough despite not being updated in a while, though there is a bit of jank. Just tried out Ice and it seems to be a nice, lower jank replacement!
Re: Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
#10Not the submitter, but I installed this a couple days ago to replace Bartender. For those not following along at home, the Bartender author just sold it to some sketchy app mill. It’s an app that legitimately requires screen recording permissions to work. I trusted the old author’s reputation. I have zero trust in the own owner. Ice isn’t as good yet. It’s not nearly so configurable. For example, you can either hide…
You can always show some icons by moving them to the right of the open/close icon