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nikitabobko / AeroSpace

AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
https://nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/guide
MIT License
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Monospaced font for menu bar? #56

Open MatthiasGrandl opened 6 months ago

MatthiasGrandl commented 6 months ago

So I really love the subtle menubar that shows the current space. However the default font doesn't lend itself very well to this purpose as the different numbers/letters, have different widths, causing other menubar items to jump when switching spaces. The use of a monospaced font would alleviate this.

For example the MacOS default clock in the right of the menu bar seems to be using the equivalent of CSS: font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; to prevent jumping.

nikitabobko commented 6 months ago

I'm 100% agree that it needs to be monospaced. The menu bar is programmed in Swift UI and I tried to make it monospaced but it didn't work.

I suspect that macOS simply doesn't allow changing the font of the tray items. Are there any known apps that show their tray item in monospaced? macOS clock doesn't count. It's a system thing, it can have more privileges

MatthiasGrandl commented 6 months ago

So could it be worked around with icons? I am not at all familiar with SwiftUI MacOS programming.

But yeah I expected this to not be super straightforward :)

nikitabobko commented 6 months ago

So could it be worked around with icons?

The tray icon shows workspace names. Workspace names are not necessarily single-lettered

rami3l commented 4 months ago

When I was using Amethyst, I also used a companion app called SpaceId, and the latter seems to be using Swift code to generate the tray icon.

It works pretty well actually:

Unfortunately I have to stop using it due to AeroSpace having its own virtual desktop system (which is great in general except for this tiny detail).

I imagine having as many icons as my active monitors (the current ordering seems fine), each showing the identifier of the current virtual desktop of that monitor (just considering the case of 1-2 letters would be fine for most cases I believe). If a monitor is unbound, a ? is used instead.

ELLIOTTCABLE commented 4 months ago

SpaceId looks fantastic, and of course I find it via this thread, right as it becomes useless to me since I'm switching to Aerospace.

:+1: to adding a list of spaces to the titlebar, that doesn't shift around often.

(My vote would be: show all spaces that have ≥1 window; with the current one highlighted dynamically switch around between them.)