Golden Gate and the Notch
Apple has added some light menu-bar management, specifically to deal with items that overflow the notch on some MacBook models. I’m glad that it’s taken this tentative step, though I wish it were more—it’s okay, Apple, you can sherlock all those menu-bar-management utilities out there—and of course, it should’ve happened back when the notch first appeared five years ago.
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Ridiculous it took 5 years to fix this, especially since application menus automatically skip to the right of the notch, so clearly they recognized that as a problem. It feels like a lot of macOS development these days is aimed at desktops with infinite screen resolutions without any consideration for the laptop line where screen estate is at a premium.
Related: how does this feature appear on desktops or Mac laptops without the notch (or height-reduced res to accommodate a screen-wide menu bar)? And do menu bar icons still disappear with no way to show them if there are still too many?
One last thing: it's incredible that Windows already had a solution for this in their software equivalent ("notification area", not system tray), dating back to Windows XP! Absolutely mindboggling that users have to resort to apps like Thaw and Hidden just to get a dropdown menu for hidden menu bar icons.
P.S. Also letting others know that the Terminal commands "NSStatusItemSpacing" and "NSStatusItemSelectionPadding" to adjust and tighten menu bar icon spacing no longer work in 27 Golden Gate, sadly.
I just run "Say No to Notch" which forces MacOS to ignore all the pixels to the right and left of the notch. Its great and honestly I forgot my MacBooks even have a notch.
