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sagacitytoday at 10:55 AM5 repliesview on HN

This is pretty nice, but why do a lot of Mac apps insist on living in the menu bar?


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mft_today at 12:40 PM

Agreed, especially for something like this that might get used a handful of times (I’m assuming most people don’t have myriad cables or want to check them regularly?)

The problem of course is that on my 14” screen the area to the right of the notch is already close to full and I don’t even have that many things there…

sleepingNomadtoday at 2:19 PM

It works for me, but I understand for others it might not. So, there's now a "Show in menu bar" toggle in Settings. Turn it off and WhatCable runs as a regular Dock app with a normal window instead.

poisonborztoday at 11:11 AM

Making 1 click to access is faster than typing the app name in finder. Dock is usually full and used for different type of apps. Makes also constantly visible output possible with standard ui patterns.

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jrochkind1today at 1:29 PM

oh no you're right, my menu bar is full already.

kdkdodjckejfjtoday at 3:29 PM

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