• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    I’m more concerned that it requires Accessibility and Screen Recording privileges to do the same job that Hidden Bar does without any of those.

    Not that I don’t trust the author here, since the source code is open after all – I simply do not have the time to audit it myself. And even if I did, I’d have to turn off auto update in order to prevent a similar switcharoo sneaking by without my knowledge.

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      5 months ago

      @MacNCheezus Hidden Bar definitely looks interesting. Unfortunately, as with Ice it also does not include a way to change the spacing between the icons, so you would still have to use the terminal commands to do that, but I do appreciate the fact that it doesn’t require those permissions. I have no idea why a program that only manipulates the visibility of items in the menu bar would need those permissions.

      • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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        5 months ago

        It works for me. I used to be a paying customer of Bartender until I upgraded to Sonoma and was asked to pay yet again.

        Hidden Bar may be somewhat minimalistic but it does the part I really need well enough. The extra features were nice but not really necessary.