Target hidden menubar

[jannis-baum]

Would be cool to have a native way of targeting right-side menubar items when the menubar is set to autohide! (For items on the left side it's not needed since we can access them by searching with cmd+shift+/

Hacky non-native solution as reference: #129

[godbout]

will investigate. danke schön my dear Jannis!

[jannis-baum]

bien sûr bg😊

[godbout]

i can't find a way to do that properly natively. seems it's like the Dock, but even worse. you need to change a defaults, but then you need to kill each individual app for them to reflect the change. like even if you set the menu bar visible through defaults but you've only killed Finder, all the other apps will not show the menu bar lol. so it seems that indeed, if this is integrated natively in Wooshy, it has to be some sort of hacking, like moving the cursor up there before clicking. still pondering if i should add this hack in Wooshy (currently 80% yes).

[jannis-baum]

Another option would be to add a keybinding for when Wooshy is active that moves the cursor up. I had my hacky version set up to always move the cursor to the menu bar before it opens Wooshy but found it annoying after a while. Now I have cmd+m in Wooshy set to move the cursor to the menu bar and then close and reopen Wooshy to get the targets. This way it still works but is less intrusive.

[godbout]

i want to avoid as much as possible people having to do anything.

what i'm thinking is:

1. check if the wanted UI Element is a menu bar Element
2. if yes, check if the menu bar Setting is set to autohide
3. if yes, move the cursor first, wait, then select
4. if no, don't do anything. things as smooth as before

of course that would be if Wooshy catches the menu bar items even when the bar is hidden. haven't checked yet if it's the case. but in any case, i would like to find a way where the user doesn't have to think about it at all.

[jannis-baum]

Nice that would be great! I thought it wasn't possible to get the menu bar elements when they aren't visible but maybe it is

[godbout]

Nice that would be great! I thought it wasn't possible to get the menu bar elements when they aren't visible but maybe it is

no idea yet.

also probably checking whether the menu bar is set to autohide using the defaults is slow. so i'd have to maybe check the setting at start, and maybe in the background after each of Wooshy's click? or find another quick way to check, maybe with some screen dimensions that may change if they menu bar is not here (like edgeSafe dimensions blah blah blah). so yeah. still a lot to dig into. and not yet sure if the UX would be great at the end. but if it is, then we definitely add that. maybe something similar would even work for the Dock aww.