DK Dial 1.3.0

Danish radio as a physical panel in the menu bar, by Jesper GB Henriksen.

Six pads for the national stations, the programme now playing with its image and broadcast time, and a dial ringed with theme icons that reaches into the archive.

New in 1.3.0

Quitting moved to the dial's lamp. The quit chip used to sit at the foot of the panel, where a long track title could crowd it out of sight — one person could not find it at all. The lamp in the dial's corner never moves, so it lives there now, wearing a power symbol so it reads without a label.

The dial icons say what is playing. That left the lamp's old job homeless, so playback status moved out to the theme icons: the running theme lights white, breathes while its episode is fetched, and turns red if it fails. The unlit ring dropped to thirty percent so the lit one reads as lit rather than merely brighter.

The panel opens itself the first time. A menu bar app with no Dock icon and no window looks like nothing happened when you first open it. It now shows itself once, on the first launch only, so you can see where it lives.

The icon lost its white plate. The icon set had been generated onto a white rounded plate, which showed as a white square anywhere the background was not white.

Install

Open the disk image and drag DK Dial to Applications.

Requires: macOS 14 or later. Universal for Apple silicon and Intel. Signed with a Developer ID certificate, notarised by Apple and stapled, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning even offline.

Project page: https://jesperh.cv/apps/dkdial.html