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| ▲ | Someone an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| And ‘every’ Mac developer thinks people will want to run their tool all the time. For this kind of read-only tool, I doubt that’s the case. A regular application probably serves most users better. Also, if you want users to have the option of permanently displaying this kind of info, a desktop widget (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit) may be a better option than a menu bar item. |
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| ▲ | sgt an hour ago | parent [-] | | Exactly, this should just be a regular app with an optional menu bar option for those who want to switch it on. |
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| ▲ | lxgr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Dock is usually full My menu bar is also full and, unlike the Dock, I can’t resize it to fit more. |
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| ▲ | poisonborz 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You can put it in a secondary onclick taskbar with Ice (similarly to Windows) | | |
| ▲ | alexcroox 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Just a heads up Ice is abandoned and broken on upcoming versions of MacOS. I still need to look into an alternative | | |
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| ▲ | UqWBcuFx6NV4r 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| OK, thanks. We understand what a menu bar is. How is this conducive to the typical usage pattern of an app like this? |
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| ▲ | kranner 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For some reason the app supports a separate standalone window mode as well [0]. It's not clear why the developer took the trouble to support two different modes when the menubar mode doesn't seem to add anything (like a live-updating icon for throughput). Well, I can think of one reason why it wasn't that much more trouble. François Chollet had a nice tweet [1] on why removing human cognitive friction is resulting in needless software complexity. [0] https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/blob/main/Sources/... [1] https://x.com/fchollet/status/2045929951539707957 | | |
| ▲ | jaffee 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > removing human cognitive friction is resulting in needless software complexity This is kind of a hilarious statement just on the surface. Isn't removing burden from humans the whole purpose of software? How can you call the complexity "needless"?! (the actual tweet seems to go into a bit more detail around being incentivized to find good abstractions) |
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| ▲ | awakeasleep 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Are you saying you wish this was a desktop app and you would just open it occasionally when curious? If so, it feels like a needlessly indirect and combative way to go about it. | | |
| ▲ | teh_klev an hour ago | parent [-] | | Why is it "combative"? Seems like a needlessly hyperbolic description of launching a desktop app. |
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