TBF - It still does "just work," The fact that it doesn't completely fit into your (and my) preferences doesn't really change that, and if that's the standard, then everything will fall short of it.

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oaweoifjwpo an hour ago | parent [-]

If the icons are just hidden and you can't find them in order to use the programs you have running, that's not "just working". That's broken functionality. Windows has solved this with the overflow menu for literally decades.

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cpach 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I vastly prefer Mac over Windows, but I think you have a good point. This is definitely one area where Microsoft found a more reasonable solution.

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quietsegfault an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I have never seen anyone with enough menu bar icons to have them hide, nor have I known anyone who ran into that problem. It’s a bug that should be fixed, but I just don’t think it’s as big of a deal as it’s made out to be.

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oaweoifjwpo an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Just because you have never personally seen a bug occur doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

This very article is about how Tailscale frequently gets reports of them being hidden.

And I personally have had the icons hidden. My work laptop has a lot of stuff running on it (much of it is mandatory: VPN, custom company processes, Google Drive, etc) and combined with my personal preferred programs (f.lux, etc) it occasionally hits the limit and goes under the notch.

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Kaliboy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did we read the same article? It literally drove them to create a new application.

	▲	oaweoifjwpo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This is the fairly standard Apple defensework where "it just works, but if it doesn't work it's probably not a real problem" despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

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inopinatus 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

"I don't have any experience with that problem, it follows that no-one has that problem".