Pelmet 0.3.2-beta.5
Major UX overhaul of the Settings. Every tab got a pass. Menu Bar now holds everything about your icons, with a new "Show when it matters" card and System extras moved over from Behavior. A click on any tile there opens its options, a right-click gives you the panel's menu. General gets a Shortcuts card with every shortcut in one place, and permissions you've already granted fold into one quiet line. Panel and Search are shorter, and Apply only shows up when there's something to apply. It's all translated into the nine languages too.
Let me know how it feels, and what you'd still change.
Fifth beta of 0.3.2, on the beta channel only (Settings › About › "Get beta releases").
New:
- Show when it matters, for icons you keep hidden (#86, thanks @pzelnip, who asked for it). Battery shows while you're on battery or below 20%, Wi-Fi when it isn't connected, Focus while a Focus is on and Time Machine while a backup runs. Turn each one on in Settings › Menu Bar. If Battery or Wi-Fi is off in System Settings, the row says so.
- Media controls comes and goes while something plays again, like Camera & mic, with a While playing or Always choice. Sounds under 5 seconds don't count, so a screenshot shutter no longer brings it out for 5 minutes.
- ⌘-drag an icon from the menu bar onto the panel to hide it.
- Panel tiles reorder within a section, and a line on the bar shows where the icon will land.
- Typing over a panel you opened with a hover searches it.
- Show in Menu Bar brings out only that icon and puts it back after, instead of the whole section. At Instant it gives you 4 seconds to reach it (#26, thanks @cpierce).
- Alias and Shortcut… on any icon, from Settings or the panel, opens Settings › Search with that icon ready.
- The right-click menu on Pelmet's icon leads with Search and Settings, and shows the shortcuts for Hide Items and Show Always Hidden Too.
Fixed:
- Icons that come from a helper app take the app's name. Fantastical showed up as 85C27NK92C… (#81, thanks @2f4vwwb5t6-gif).
- An icon you move to Visible in Settings crosses the arrow on its own on a bar with none of Pelmet's own icons on it. It used to wait for them forever (#81, thanks @2f4vwwb5t6-gif).
- Opening an icon that sits behind macOS's « from the panel opens its menu. Pelmet read its own click as a click on the empty bar and opened the panel over it (#81).
- Reordering inside Hidden or Always Hidden applies, from the panel and from Settings.
- The panel and Settings show your icons in the same order after an Apply.
- When two moves would do, Apply moves the icon you dropped and not its neighbour.
- When the bar shifts while the panel takes its pictures, it takes them again.
- No more false "Didn't fit". An idle camera indicator, the panel's pictures and Pelmet starting up could each put an icon there for a moment.