Hide Dock Icon?
Hide Dock Icon?
Where is the "Hide Dock Icon" setting in WindowMizer 6?
Re: Hide Dock Icon?
The setting to Hide the WindowMizer Dock icon has been removed.
It overly complicates the underlying code because it effectively makes WindowMizer an agent or background-app.
Additionally, apps that have/use windows should not be agent apps because it hides the app's menu bar, and the menu bar does not reflect the current app per normal macOS interface.
It overly complicates the underlying code because it effectively makes WindowMizer an agent or background-app.
Additionally, apps that have/use windows should not be agent apps because it hides the app's menu bar, and the menu bar does not reflect the current app per normal macOS interface.
Re: Hide Dock Icon?
Thanks for explaining. Showing what are mainly background apps in the Dock seems to be what Apple now wants too. I don't care for the clutter, myself.
Re: Hide Dock Icon?
I agree that showing / hiding dock icons should be a simple System setting.
The problem with the current System design is that hiding the dock icon also removes the menu bar - which is stupid, but that's how it works. If the window-shading feature were baked into to System, it would behave more like a "background" app. In fact it would just be part of Apple's AppKit framework with a System Settings panel.
With regard to WindowMizer, and the way WindowMizer has to work (menu bars, placeholder's, etc), it very much is a foreground (windowed) app.
Thanks for asking about it, because it is a different from WindowMizer version 5 – it's gone now.
The problem with the current System design is that hiding the dock icon also removes the menu bar - which is stupid, but that's how it works. If the window-shading feature were baked into to System, it would behave more like a "background" app. In fact it would just be part of Apple's AppKit framework with a System Settings panel.
With regard to WindowMizer, and the way WindowMizer has to work (menu bars, placeholder's, etc), it very much is a foreground (windowed) app.
Thanks for asking about it, because it is a different from WindowMizer version 5 – it's gone now.