[Mac] Add "Hide app" and "Hide others" menu items

[jacob-carlborg-apoex]

All macOS application have a couple of standard menu items. google-chat-electron is missing the "Hide google-chat-electron" and "Hide Others" menu items. These are located in the application menu. Here's an example screenshot from TextMate how the these menu items can look like (you can see the keyboard shortcuts as well):

[ankurk91]

Unfortunately i no longer i have mac os vm to run this app into, i will try to install the vm soon.

As far as i remember, this app already have "Hide" menu. How can an app can hide other apps? Need to check if it is a native electron.js feature.

[jacob-carlborg-apoex]

As far as i remember, this app already have "Hide" menu.

No, it has a menu item "Close To Tray". This has the keyboard shortcut ⌘W. The standard keyboard shortcut for "Hide" is ⌘H. "Close To Tray" closes the window but the application is still active. It also has a different keyboard shortcut. The ⌘W keyboard shortcut is usually used for closing a tab or window for document based applications. The ⌘W keyboard shortcut doesn't really make sense for google-chat-electron on macOS, because it can only, as far as I know, have one window. It's not a document based application.

How can an app can hide other apps? Need to check if it is a native electron.js feature.

There's an API for that https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsworkspace/1530417-hideotherapplications.

The most important one (for me at least) is "Hide" and that is has the keyboard shortcut ⌘H, I'm so used to using that keyboard shortcut.

I've included a screenshot from Slack as well below. As far as I know, Slack is an Electron based application as well.

[ankurk91]

Thanks, i will consider your opinion soon