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nate-parrott / Flashlight

The missing Spotlight plugin system
http://flashlight.nateparrott.com
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Minimize to menu bar #244

Open kylerog opened 9 years ago

kylerog commented 9 years ago

Is there any work being done to allow the app to be displayed in the menu bar / status bar rather than the dock (as a user toggle-able preference)? Such as how Dropbox and Caffeine work.

nate-parrott commented 9 years ago

You can quit the app and it should still work until you explicitly turn off "enable spotlight plugins." (Even across restarts) The UI definitely needs to make this more clear. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:41 PM Kyle Rogers notifications@github.com wrote:

Is there any work being done to allow the app to be displayed in the menu bar / status bar rather than the dock (as a user toggle-able preference)? Such as how Dropbox and Caffeine work.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/nate-parrott/Flashlight/issues/244.

kylerog commented 9 years ago

Good to know! I guess I am wondering then if it would be more clear that it is still active (as well as provide a way to easily deactivate) if there was an icon in the status bar or if that would just get in the way for people

nate-parrott commented 9 years ago

Not sure — a menu item seems like the accepted way to indicate something's running in the background, but I'd hide it myself. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:12 PM Kyle Rogers notifications@github.com wrote:

Good to know! I guess I am wondering then if it would be more clear that it is still active (as well as provide a way to easily deactivate) if there was an icon in the status bar or if that would just get in the way for people

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/nate-parrott/Flashlight/issues/244#issuecomment-68782171 .

kylerog commented 9 years ago

So do you think a preference switch to either hide or display? Personally I prefer to see what's running but I understand some prefer your method. I'm working on a solution that would do this right now but wanted to see your thoughts were before submitting a pull request.

nate-parrott commented 9 years ago

Sure! Go ahead. You'll probably want to add the menu item code to 'SIMBL' target, which runs in the background whenever flashlight is enabled. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:37 PM Kyle Rogers notifications@github.com wrote:

So do you think a preference switch to either hide or display? Personally I prefer to see what's running but I understand some prefer your method. I'm working on a solution that would do this right now but wanted to see your thoughts were before submitting a pull request.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/nate-parrott/Flashlight/issues/244#issuecomment-68786280 .

kylerog commented 9 years ago

Awesome, thanks for the heads up