Need to find a free app for #Mac that does this with the system tray icons (I can’t remember the official name for this section of the desktop on MacOS). Screenshot shown. Basically just shrink the padding for all of them. I don’t need ANY other functionality, no hiding icons for example. Just more compact padding.
@bitterseeds Ugh. I’m not giving up yet - I have way too many icons in that area and the default spacing is triggering my OCD badly. There is no way I’m paying $16 for such a thing though. Will keep hunting.
@dhrystone@bitterseeds Bartender lets you adjust icon spacing and hide icons in a second tier. I’m a cheapskate when it comes to spending money on apps and especially utilities (I use Lulu instead of Little Snitch, for example), but for a $16 one-time payment, Bartender is a must-have for me. The functionality should really be sherlocked, but I doubt that’s going to happen.
@EpiphanicSynchronicity@dhrystone Oh. I use Bartender already. I want access to those apps via the menu bar but honestly, iStat Menus is what I want to view all the time and iStat Menus takes up quite a bit of space. I do think Apple should have come up with a solution since they put that big ass notch at the top of the newer Macs. They caused the problem, so they should have had an option like Bartender to fix it.
@bitterseeds@EpiphanicSynchronicity 1000% agree. I’m happy to drop cash on things I believe are worth it (eg #MonaApp and #Obsidian), but if all the code does is take a padding of x pixels and make that x-10 pixels then screw dropping sixteen clams on it. I’m spoiled because Windows has the excess icon hiding built in, and 7TaskbarTweaker bartenderizes the spacing for free.
I’m seeing a LOT of Mac apps out there charging for features which are free on Windows and I don’t know why. Is it because people think that Mac users must be made of money because they can afford a Mac in the first place? Polar opposite is Linux stuff, I actually don’t even know of any Linux apps one needs to pay for. But yeah. If I find a free systray icon spacing compactor I’ll post the link.
@dhrystone@bitterseeds I agree with you that it should be built into the OS, but if you don’t find a free option, which is going to annoy you more over the next six months—dropping the $16 dollars once or staring day after day after day at a menu bar that bugs you every time you look at it?
@dhrystone@EpiphanicSynchronicity Yeah, it's a bit much for what it does honestly. I have an X1 Thinkpad with Linux on it and a AMD desktop workstation running Linux. I've paid for exactly one app outright which is Master PDF Viewer/editor and that was mainly because I hate Okular and the rest of the PDF tools under Linux kind of suck balls.
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