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[Feature Request]: Option to hide menu icon in macOS
Problem description
The Heroic app places an icon in the menu bar with no ability to remove it.
Feature description
I would like an option to hide the menu icon in macOS.
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/2017 made a similar request, but was closed without any discussion. To answer the question "why?" in that issue: because space in the menu bar on macOS is a limited resource, and the user should have the ability to choose which icons are present. Even macOS itself lets users add or remove system icons from the menu.
The menu icon does not provide any value to me (the Heroic app is present in the dock, so if I need to open it I can click there), so I'd like to remove the icon to make space for other icons.
Thanks!
Alternatives
As far as I can tell there are no alternatives.
I would also like an option to hide system tray icon. I use tiling window manager with vertical status bar with sworkstyle, which already puts one icon corresponding to heroic on status bar. I also never run game launchers in background nor in scratchpad, so I don't get any benefits of an actual tray icon but still takes precious space