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PSA: Bartender Mac App Under New Ownership, But Lack of Transparency Raises Concerns (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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I've been a paying user since 2015. This makes me sad, as it's one of my most beloved utilities and this isn't a good look. I'll keep running it without updating until it stops working or I find a replacement that I like. Also:

https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/06/bartender-has-a-new-owner/

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[–] cbarrick 30 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It's honestly wild that the core feature of Bartender (hiding icons in the menu bar) isn't builtin to macOS.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

You can use Hidden for this - https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It is and it isn't. Apple isn't the best at managing development resources, so they seem to get stretched kinda thin when they take on too many projects. I know they have all the money in the world. That doesn't make them effective at managing many teams on many projects. They're already falling on their face on some of their software goals, at least from the outside. I'm happy enough for third-party devs to fill in niche features so long as Apple doesn't block them from doing so.

[–] FooBarrington 1 points 3 weeks ago

That was pretty much my experience with most of MacOS - you have to pay for many basic features, and pray that the tools have been updated to work on current OS versions.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you hold command you can click on an icon and drag it out to remove it or drag it left or right to reorganize the menu bar icons. Baked in, no extra app needed

[–] paraphrand 16 points 3 weeks ago

Removing isn’t the same as hiding.

[–] Ghostalmedia 1 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn’t work for all menu bar icons, and sometimes people just want to hide stuff as with the old classic macOS Control Strip.