Cornice v0.3.0

Added

• An always hidden zone. Switch it on and you get a second divider, drawn as a double line. ⌘-drag it left of the first one, and whatever ends up behind it stays hidden even while the chevron reveals the rest. Off by default, because it takes one more slot in the menu bar.
• ⌥-click the toggle button to open and close that zone, or bind a keyboard shortcut to it. The divider itself is not clickable on purpose: widened, it is an invisible strip most of the width of the screen, and a click target that size would swallow other applications' clicks.
• The leftmost divider is always the always hidden one. Drag one past the other and their jobs swap, so there is nothing to configure and nothing that can end up disagreeing with what you see.
• A switch for looking once at GitHub at launch, off by default. If something newer exists it appears in the right-click menu and in Settings. One anonymous request, nothing sent, and Cornice still never installs anything over itself.
• Eight new strings in all fifteen translated languages.

Fixed

• The Menu Bar tab was splitting its list at the toggle button, which sits at the right-hand end of the bar and means nothing. With the icons revealed that filed almost everything as hidden. It reads the dividers now, and lists three sections when the always hidden zone is on.
• Numbers in Settings follow the language you picked in Settings. They were following the system's instead, so a Russian machine showing the English interface put "1,5" next to "Thickness".

Changed

• The settings window is as tall as the tab you are on. Behaviour had outgrown one fixed height and its last controls fell below the fold, while Appearance sat half empty at the same size.
• The Appearance preview shows both dividers when the zone is switched on, at real size, as it already did for one.

Install: download Cornice.dmg below, drag it onto Applications.
The build is signed for development and not notarised, so the first launch is
right-click the app, Open, then Open again. Once is enough.

Requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple Silicon.

Cornice v0.2.1

Fixed

• The 0.2.0 download was built six commits early, so none of the fixes below reached it. This build has them.
• The keyboard shortcut now works with auto-collapse switched on. Revealing without touching the mouse used to put everything away again about a third of a second later.
• The build no longer carries get-task-allow. That entitlement let any process running as the same user attach to Cornice and borrow what it holds: Accessibility, once gestures are on, and its event tap.
• In Settings, each gesture arrow sits next to the words it belongs to instead of across the window from them.
• An auto-collapse delay saved below 0.2 seconds now reads as 0.2, which is what it has always done anyway.

Changed

• The settings say what they do. "Hide again when the pointer leaves the menu bar" instead of "Hide again automatically", "Start with the icons hidden" instead of "Start hidden", "Toggle button" as the heading for the button you click. The delay slider starts at 0.2 seconds, the smallest value the pointer check can honour.
• A shortcut can be set to the keys it already has, and a combination taken by Cornice's other action now says which one instead of blaming something unnamed.

Install: download Cornice.dmg below, drag it onto Applications.
The build is signed for development and not notarised, so the first launch is
right-click the app, Open, then Open again. Once is enough.

Requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple Silicon.

Cornice v0.2.0

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

Cornice v0.1.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SnowDrit/Cornice/commits/v0.1.0