• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      5 months ago

      I’m not shy of command line config, so that’s good to know. I copied both Ice and the other recommendation from SixColors to my RIL apps. I’ll check them out when I start seeing reasons to move off of my present install of Bartender. Until then, it still does everything I want in ways that I like. Thanks for the heads up!

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      5 months ago

      I’m more concerned that it requires Accessibility and Screen Recording privileges to do the same job that Hidden Bar does without any of those.

      Not that I don’t trust the author here, since the source code is open after all – I simply do not have the time to audit it myself. And even if I did, I’d have to turn off auto update in order to prevent a similar switcharoo sneaking by without my knowledge.

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        5 months ago

        @MacNCheezus Hidden Bar definitely looks interesting. Unfortunately, as with Ice it also does not include a way to change the spacing between the icons, so you would still have to use the terminal commands to do that, but I do appreciate the fact that it doesn’t require those permissions. I have no idea why a program that only manipulates the visibility of items in the menu bar would need those permissions.

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          5 months ago

          It works for me. I used to be a paying customer of Bartender until I upgraded to Sonoma and was asked to pay yet again.

          Hidden Bar may be somewhat minimalistic but it does the part I really need well enough. The extra features were nice but not really necessary.

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      5 months ago

      Thank you! For me, ice is the perfect replacement for bartender even though it doesn’t have all those features yet