[Request]Don't hide icon when using

[rukkora]

Describe the bug

I installed HiddenBar and I love it so much, but I have a problem. I want it not to hide icons automatically when I use shown icons. Otherwise I want an option for hiding all icons on startup. Thank you.

[phucledien]

Hi @rukkora, glad to hear that you love the Hidden Bar app. We really appreciate it ❤️

I want it not to hide icons automatically when I use shown icons.

As I understand, this means you do not want the menu bar icons to be hidden automatically when the context menu is opened. (correct me if I'm wrong) I believe this cannot be achieved because we cannot detect this kind of event. So at least for now, I think you should extend the auto-hide time.

With the option of hiding all icons on startup, we will update it asap.

Once again, thank you for using and give a nice commend for our app 👍

[rukkora]

Sorry for my poor English. Your interpretation is right, and I'm glad to hear that you'll start developing option of hiding all icons on startup!

Thank you so much!

[Supremesir]

I don't know how they did it, but Dozer don't hidden menu bar icons automatically when the context menu is opened. I guess it might be focus loss or something? Thank you so much!

Hi @rukkora, glad to hear that you love the Hidden Bar app. We really appreciate it ❤️

I want it not to hide icons automatically when I use shown icons.

As I understand, this means you do not want the menu bar icons to be hidden automatically when the context menu is opened. (correct me if I'm wrong) I believe this cannot be achieved because we cannot detect this kind of event. So at least for now, I think you should extend the auto-hide time.

With the option of hiding all icons on startup, we will update it asap.

Once again, thank you for using and give a nice commend for our app 👍

[viettrungphan]

• I think we have 2 way to implement this:

• Lookup window list to see is there any opening menu.
• Using ML to identify menu bar opening, this required screen record permission to take a top-right screenshot then check it has any opening menu. This also required us going to collect a lot of menu bar images both on dark and light themes to train CoreML model. I considered the first solution since it not required any permission, if it does not work well we will come with the second one.

[vordenken]

Hey guys, are you making progress with this feature? I like using hidden but this "bug" is really annoying... If you need support or testing candidates just hit me up - would love to help get this sorted out. cheers

[p-z-l]

@vordenken The problem is that macOS doesn’t officially provide such API for detecting menu bar usage. So I have to use some tricky workarounds, we just have to take time to make sure that it works reliably.

[MoKhajavi75]

Hey

I really appreciate your wonderful tool! I hope we get this update soon 🎉