alt Hacker NewsI like it so far.
Some features I'd like:
- XL bar size - even large feels a bit small on a 6K display
- I have grouped windows off, but it would be nice if there was an option to still sort the chips by app, so all the app's windows are listed adjacent to eachother
- If not using the suggest idea above, it would also be nice to be able to drag and drop chips to sort them in the order I want
- Make the Applications menu open for clicks on the entire bottom left area of the screen so I can slam my cursor in the general direction, where it ends up at the bottom left pixel, and click like I could in Windows to open the Start menu
- Ability to give a desktop a name
- Ability to map a key or sequence (e.g. opt, opt) to open the Applications menu, again like how you could open Windows' Start menu with a key
Bugs:
- Clicking a chip to minimise a window, then clicking it again to restore it sometimes causes the window to change size.
- Quitting boringBar spawned three stacks of these: https://postimg.cc/WhmwHGNz even though it already has permissions granted. Clicking "Allow" just spawns another one so they never go away. boringBar is not running in Activity Monitor. Had no choice but to reboot.
Hey! Thanks for checking it out. Regarding your feedback:
- This has been said by another user as well. I am on a 4K monitor - if possible could you share a screenshot of how it looks like currently?
- That's a fair ask. I will take a note of it.
- Drag and drop is something I am working on as well. It will be released in the next version of the app.
- Again, fair. I think I got used to it because I've been using it for a while. But this is being worked on as well and will be released in the next version.
- Ability to give a desktop a name is easy enough. I'll work on this.
- Ability to map a key or sequence for the app menu - you can already do this from the boringBar settings: Just right click on the empty space in the bar and select settings. You can then record a shortcut there.
Regarding the first bug: I do not have a fix for it yet, but I am trying to reproduce it as of now.
I'll try to reproduce the second one as well - this shows up if you are trying thumbnails for the first time - but only just one pop up and not this many.