Feature: Customize time format for meeting time in menu bar string

[KaiOelfke]

Issue that this suggestion fixes

I have not enough space in my menu bar. A meeting has the following text, if it's happening now:

"Event nam... now (25min left)" (My app is localized in German, so the actual English title is maybe slightly different)

I'd like to be able to customize the title to:

"Event nam... 25m"

Solution description

Provide time format settings from full length to omitted words with only the abbreviated time.

Alternatives considered

Currently I can only enable or disable time in the menu bar title. I want the time, but it should take less space.

Additional context

No response

[huyz]

For me in 22h 51m is still too long. All I need to see is 22h51. Why waste more space?

[darthwalsh]

Have the same problem. Some notes if somebody is interesting in implementing this:

The text 25min or 22h 51m is defined by this formatter: https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar/blob/b28e743c2f118670cadc0710bc2d60b57eb33a3d/MeetingBar/StatusBarItemController.swift#L1013-L1016

Then the (%@ left) seems to come from: https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar/blob/b28e743c2f118670cadc0710bc2d60b57eb33a3d/MeetingBar/StatusBarItemController.swift#L1031-L1033 https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar/blob/b28e743c2f118670cadc0710bc2d60b57eb33a3d/MeetingBar/Resources%20/Localization%20/en.lproj/Localizable.strings#L241

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I'm not sure what the UX for this would be. Another option in dropdown Status bar > Time > minimal? I don't know how useful making the time format fully customizable would be. But anybody with a new macbook with the camera notch has only limited menu bar space available, so maybe this new compact format should be the default?

[huyz]

Yeah, I forked and hacked the files myself locally. Pretty easy to build and regular upstream merges have been without conflicts.