Bartender 1.2.2 Beta
This Beta release contains many internal changes to provide Mavericks support, allow us to add some of the new great features and to better support some apps that had compatibility issues with Bartender. As such if you could report any issues you find it would really help.
New Features / Improvements
Mavericks Support
- Bartender now fully supports the Multi-monitor features of Mavericks, including multiple Menu Bars and spaces. Bartender will hide the menu bar icons on each menu bar, and will display the Bartender Bar on the Active Space/Screen.
- Show For Updates for System Items
- Show for updates now works with system items, no need to say any more, give it a try its great.
- Show For Updates, Image recognition
- Bartender now uses image recognition to detect changes in Menu Bar Items, this prevents false positives, i.e. showing when a update didn't really happen and an app just refreshed its state.
- Show For Updates, remaining in the Menu Bar until timeout
- Previous versions of Bartender would show items in the menu bar from the first update until the timeout, then hide and show again if another update happened. Now an item will show in the Menu Bar from the last update until the specified timeout, so if updates keep happening the item will stay in the menubar.
- Power Usage
- We have improved Bartenders power usage dramatically to help extend battery life for users of Mavericks.
Compatibility
- We have been making major changes to the control code of Bartender to improve compatibility with the few apps that didnt work well with Bartender, these should see a huge improvement, and all apps should work better with Bartender.
- Dragging to Bartender
- You can now drag items to Bartenders Menu Bar Icon and the default click action will be performed allowing you to drag and drop to apps hidden by Bartender.
- Fullscreen detection
- If you are on Mountain Lion or newer versions of OSX, Bartender will now detect when switching to a fullscreen app and automatically hide the Bartender Bar, it will then reopen it when you switch to a non fullscreen space, works very nicely on Mavericks with fullscreen apps on a separate display.
- OSX Compatibility Checks
- Bartender now checks that it is compatible with the version of OSX you are running and will prompt you to inform us of compatibility issues.
Bug Fixes
Grey System Items
- In previous versions System Items would appear slightly grey, instead of black when in the Bartender Bar, this has been fixed.
- Bartender filesystem location limits
- In previous versions of Bartender had to be in a location accessible by sandboxed apps, such as /Applications/ instead of say ~/Applications/ with this release this is no longer required and Bartender works from any location.
- System Items not present on new OSX installs
- On new installs of OSX, System Items would not be populated in Bartender Preferences until they were edited in System Preferences; this now works.
- Dynamic System Items
- Previously dynamic system items would not show in Bartender Preferences, they now show as expected.
- Skype Support
- With the latest update to Skype they included a security measure that unfortunately also prevented Bartender from working with it. We have found a way to still work with Skype.
LaunchBar Compatibility
- Currently LaunchBar does not display a Menubar item that needs controlling as such we detect this and do not allow settings to be added for LaunchBar.
- Using discrete graphics on late 2010 MBP's after 10.8.3
- Bartender should now not switch to discrete graphics.
- SystemUIServer high CPU usage on rare occasions
- For some users on rare occasions SystemUIServer would display high CPU usage, this is now fixed.
Tunnelbrick Compatibility
For some users TunnelBrick would create multiple menu bar items when used with Bartender, this is now fixed.
Custom Menu Bar Icon Image large in drop down in Preferences
Selecting a large image for the menu bar icon of Bartender would cause the drop down to display this image larger than other items, this is now fixed.