There's also Bartender, Hidden Bar etc., but they all come with some downsides.
I just don't get why Apple doesn't recognize this as a problem. Do the engineers working on macOS all have two of these 5:1 aspect ratio ultra wide monitors!?
Whenever I look at my partner's Macbook I'm having a flashbacks from Win9x/2000 times when tray area was filled up.
But Microsoft managed to deal with that issue - years ago. With XP they introduced collapsible tray area and later, it also become possible to rearrange icons.
Somehow for Apple the problem doesn't exist or they assume that their users will choose a 3rd party solution. Frankly, it's them who should provide the solution straight within the operating system. Especially when Apple computers revolve nowadays more around laptops which by definition have smaller display area.
Worse - even if you have two, Apple just duplicates the menu bar on both screens.
Especially with the abomination that is The Notch, the menu bar has been overcrowded for years. No offense to OP. I’m talking about the 5 or so items I can’t get rid of in there.
Just a heads up Ice is abandoned and broken on upcoming versions of MacOS. I still need to look into an alternative
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/06/alternatives-bartender-...
Thank you for posting this, I've been increasingly frustrated with ice recently and have been considering paying for bartender, now i won't.
Thaw is a fork of Ice which is maintained and woks on Tahoe.
https://github.com/stonerl/Thaw
There's also Bartender, Hidden Bar etc., but they all come with some downsides.
I just don't get why Apple doesn't recognize this as a problem. Do the engineers working on macOS all have two of these 5:1 aspect ratio ultra wide monitors!?
Whenever I look at my partner's Macbook I'm having a flashbacks from Win9x/2000 times when tray area was filled up.
But Microsoft managed to deal with that issue - years ago. With XP they introduced collapsible tray area and later, it also become possible to rearrange icons.
Somehow for Apple the problem doesn't exist or they assume that their users will choose a 3rd party solution. Frankly, it's them who should provide the solution straight within the operating system. Especially when Apple computers revolve nowadays more around laptops which by definition have smaller display area.
Worse - even if you have two, Apple just duplicates the menu bar on both screens.
Especially with the abomination that is The Notch, the menu bar has been overcrowded for years. No offense to OP. I’m talking about the 5 or so items I can’t get rid of in there.