tosh6d ago

Tailscale's New macOS Home

https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape

How notch traversal works on MacBooks

Tailscale now has a full windowed UI. Before that, our app had to learn how to tell you it was hidden by The Notch.

Show threadpaxys6d ago
I haven't had enough menu bar icons to run into this but is it really the case that the notch just hides whatever icons happen to be behind it? Like, the OS doesn't handle this incredibly obvious edge case? Why not just put an overflow dropdown next to the notch (something Windows XP managed to figure out)? I know software quality has been going down in recent versions of macOS but this is absurd.
Show threadlatchkey

One of the mentioned apps, Bartender, was sold to a third party [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584606

I think they've cleaned it up since then [1], but in the age of supply chain attacks, very concerning. Personally, even as a paying user of Bartender, I moved to the open source solution, at least I can watch the github for changes.

[1] https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Lets-Try-This-Again/

Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer | Hacker News

Apr 2 at 6:55pmWeb
Show threadInsideOutSanta6d ago
The other mentioned app, Ice, is unmaintained and no longer works on Tahoe. There's a maintained fork called Thaw.
Show threadlatchkey6d ago

Thanks, I'll check out Thaw. I've been using Ice without problems:

https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.13-dev....

Release Ice 0.11.13 (macOS Tahoe Beta 2) · jordanbaird/Ice

Note This beta release fixes a majority of known issues introduced in macOS 26 Tahoe. What's New Adopted liquid glass design. Reorganized settings interface for more intuitive navigation. More he...

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