Add option to change menu app animation speed (or disable animations) and option to disable icon bounce and popup animation

[waydabber]

Add option to change menu app animation speed (or disable animations) and option to disable icon bounce and popup animation

[smvueno]

Works fantastic, I disabled it just to gain 0.2ms extra speed 😂👌

[andremacola]

In my case, it's not about the extra speed but rather about maintaining the OSX standard in the sidebar menus' operation. It's more of a UI/UX obsession I have.

I'm glad the developer found it interesting to include it as an option, even though it's somewhat "irrelevant" to most people.

[waydabber]

[waydabber]

@andremacola - meanwhile here is an interim build with this feature implemented: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/releases/download/v2.0.0-pre-release/BetterDisplay-v2.1.0-b24931-pre.zip

[waydabber]

Interestingly, macOS GUI standards are getting somewhat murky nowadays as even Apple deviates from them. Take a look at how Control Center and Control Center menus work, they do everything slightly differently - animations, colors, transitions, GUI elements, sliders etc - than anything else in macOS. Interestingly none of those GUI elements are available in any public APIs to be reused by app developers - the sliders in BetterDisplay for example were built from ground up by me to replicate the Control Center look - originally made them MonitorControl (note: since then many other developers copied that code, for which I am glad). BetterDisplay v2.x takes some liberties and gets some of the ideas from the Control Center's UI but adapts them to its own needs while tries to provide some continuity with the v1.x versions which were Cocoa.

[andremacola]

You are right. The Control Center has its transitions, but they are internal transitions. What I'm drawing attention to is more focused on the initial opening click/first click of the tool.

I still make a recommendation that, whether animation is enabled or not, when closing the tool, it should not transition by scaling and fading to the center, but rather just a gentle fadeout like all the others.

Again, it's just an observation that won't make a difference for 99.9% of users. 😁

[waydabber]

Oh, so it's about the entire menu itself? Now that in fact is fully macOS compliant. There are two kinds of MenuBar Extra apps - one that uses NSMenu (that will just appear and fade out) and one that uses NSPopover - that has this opening/closing animation (built-in, non customizable but can be disabled). The v1.4.x used NSMenu but since that is very limited, the new app uses NSPopover entirely the way Apple's own best practice code demonstrates (except that thanks to a hack, the popover's anchor is removed as that looks super bad).

Unfortunately with NSPopover it is not possible to nicely fade away the menu upon close (I wanted that as well), the outgoing scaling animation is the default implementation which cannot be changed easily (ok, with some low level hacking it is probably possible).