Bartender Macbook

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Poochie Tenharmsel

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Aug 4, 2024, 3:53:38 PM8/4/24

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Ihave been using Bartender to hide meni bar items for years, def one of the first things I install on all my macs, but I have found myself working on a MacBook Air alot so with a much smaller screen even with bartender sometimes I feel like the menu bar is too cluttered on such a small screen.

I have Macros & apple scripts setup for interacting with many of my menu bar items. When they are visible the scripts work great but if the items are marked as hidden eh scripts don't work (obviously)

Also, has there been any progress made on eliminating the delay in GUI scripting if firing a script from KM? The 3 to 4-second delay isn't awful but if it could be eliminated while executing the script from KM that would be awesome.

While updating the bartender app, one of the permission that requires to be 'allowed' is allowing screen-recording by the app, otherwise it doesn't install. I am on macOS Catalina (v 10.5). Why would an app require screen recording, when all it needs is screen shot at start up. Moreover, a user can always choose which app he wants to appear in menu bar. Therefore, my question is - why does bartender 3 require screen recording? and why did earlier versions of macOS allow this?

Three months ago, I sold Bartender to Applause, a company with the resources and expertise to take the app to new heights. Applause shares my vision for Bartender and is committed to maintaining its core values while bringing in new features and improvements. I truly believe they are the right team to continue the journey and ensure Bartender remains a valuable tool for all of you.

I did write the post, to try and help clear up some of the concern caused by the lack of clarity. I also linked this to the same on surteesstudios.com so people could tell it was me (surtees studios is still mine). The reason the base url redirects is so that people looking for Bartender support get to the bartender website, in some of the license emails it linked to surteesstudios.com

Popular Mac app Bartender appears to have been quietly sold approximately two months ago, with neither the prior owner nor the current owner providing customers or potential customers with information on the sale.

The transaction came to light after some Reddit users saw a warning from MacUpdater letting them know that the company behind Bartender had been silently replaced. MacUpdater warned users that updates to the app from version 5.0.52 could be potentially unsafe due to the lack of transparency surrounding the situation.

I did use AppCleaner to remove Bartender, and that seemed to get everything, but I did first turn off the settings in Settings / Privacy & Security (under Accessibility and Screen & System Audio Recording) that Bartender has you set to allow it to work.

That is not a comment which suggests much experience or knowledge of the difficulties of writing this kind of application. Size is irrelevant. Maintaining software which has hooks deep in the OS is a distinctly non-trivial task and requires constant vigilance for, and rapid attention to, problems caused by application conflicts and OS updates. I found maintaining Apollo in the 1990s difficult enough. I expect it would be a great deal trickier now.

I am going to try this on my MacBook Pro. There is only one item that hides behind the notch. I have lived with a workaround which is to cmd drag another item to the left. This makes the one hidden appear. The other one disappears.

For anyone who still may be interested, Applause issued a new version 5.0.53, explaining (and apologizing) for the bad way they released it. The new version removes the Amplitude digital analytics framework entirely, explaining that they initially included it (as Adam said in his note) to get an idea of the user base.

I'm posting this because I have received multiple related requests due to the current Bartender controversy (PSA: Bartender Mac App Under New Ownership, But Lack of Transparency Raises Concerns - MacRumors) If you want to clean up your menubar...

This particular case may have been merely a matter of bungling, but there are cases when the owners of a small business may have no control over its sale. Examples include bankruptcy sales, a will that directs the executor to sell the business for the optimum return, or an owner who dies intestate.

This is the settings I ended up with.

Spacing 9

Padding 6

Spacing 10 makes the leftmost disappear.

I am not sure if you need to set padding at all if the only thing you want is to change spacing. I am happy so I will not experiment further.

I have been using Bartender since V3 to hide / show menu bar icons on my Macbook. Up until now I thought it was a great piece of software and really handy to have and use. However, apparently, it was sold from the original creator to the Applause Group, without any notification to the user base.

PSA: Bartender Mac App Under New Ownership, But Lack of Transparency Raises Concerns

It may be overblown / a lot of hype. I'm not sure just yet. The new version that was released via the update the other week does now send analytics data to api2.amplitude.com, so I have blocked it with LittleSnitch. I guess make up your own mind if you are still going to use the product. Apparently BetterTouchTool has similar features you can implement and is supposed to be good too, as well as another free software called "ice".

We are enhancing privacy in this update by removing Amplitude product analytics, which was added in version 5.0.52. This was originally included to count the number of users encountering issues with permissions outlined here:

Thats what I thought initially, however the developer of BTT seems to be taking all the ex bartenders feedback and implementing it. The developer of BTT has a lot of those features in his previously depreciated "notch bar" app? or feature, and he's re-implementing them into the BTT.