Bartender clone

[Habbie]

Suggested by Bram Heerink

[cmsj]

(see macbartender.com. I suspect this will be very non-trivial!)

[Habbie]

I imagine that is going to be so completely insane to make, that I'm not even thinking about it
they inject code into each process that adds a menubar icon
22/10/2014 16:19:35.483 Hammerspoon[49951]: Bartender: Loaded BartenderHelperSeventyFour

• @cmsj

[Habbie]

Thought I had today: what if instead of reimplementing Bartender, we could talk to an existing instance? Does it expose any scripting endpoints?

[cmsj]

Looks like Bartender does have Applescript bindings, but I don't see anything remotely useful in them - looks almost like boilerplate stuff.

[cmsj]

I'm very unsure that this extension can, or should ever exist. The task required of it is very complex and is likely to be pretty fragile. I'm going to close this issue unless someone can present a good case for it, and someone indicates they'll work on it.
(I think having extension wishlist issues open for months/years is unlikely to be healthy)

Any dissent?

[Habbie]

👍 from me. If somebody wants this, they can talk to the Bartender people to get applescript endpoints and take it from there.