Add a feature to hide status bar icon

[niw]

Add a feature to hide status bar icon

[niw]

Released HapticKey 0.4.3.
There is known automatic update issue. See #22.

[niw]

@brightsider you meant, the icon on the status bar?

[brightsider]

@niw yeah

[niw]

Okay, update this ticket.

So... actually adding feature to hide icon on the status bar is just a trivial implementation, however, it’s not trivial to provide a way to restore it in the application interface because the icon on the status bar is the only entry point of this application interface.

There are a few possible solutions, but non of them are perfect.

1. Hide icon only when the application is launched with a specific argument.
2. Shows a dock icon instead when icon has been removed from the status bar.
3. Always shows icon when application is re launched.

Anyways, without proper communication in the user interface, this feature may confuses users...

[d53dave]

I have seen other apps go route (3) and I liked it.

The way they communicated was to show a popup saying that a user can reach the application again by starting it from the applications folder.

[niw]

@d53dave Thank you for the input! I’m exploring the solution for route option 3 now.

[niw]

Added an option to hide the icon in the menu bar by the commit f555d80. I’m going to close this issue.

[brightsider]

@niw thanks