✨: Improve menu bar layout/design

[lukepistrol]

Currently the menu bar item displays the icon as well as the current state as text. Except from when a backup is running where it will display the progress percentage.

I'd like to have a more pleasing approach. Maybe icons for the different states, maybe completely customizable.

Let's discuss how information should be displayed below.

[blackketter]

I've been messing around with an xbar script for monitoring Time Machine, but TimeMachineStatus is a much better solution. Some personal thoughts based on my experience:

• A percentage number visible while backup is in progress would be great. If an estimated time is available, even better!
• My script has status displayed as a single word: "Preparing", "Mounting", "Finding", "Thinning", which saves some space.
• Relatedly, if Time Machine isn't doing anything, the word "Idle" probably isn't needed, as long as an icon is still there.
• I miss the old spinning Time Machine icon from previous versions of macOS. TimeMachineStatus could bring it back!

[lukepistrol]

@blackketter Thanks for your suggestions! I will definitely have a look at those! 👍🏻

[blackketter]

Ha ha! That was fast!

[mp221510]

I don't know about how practical this would be but I'd love the option to only show one symbol at a time (no text) and to express the status with symbols comparable to e.g. the gobackward.45 for expressing the percentage, or arrow.3.trianglepath for tidying up.

Space on a MacBook Pro is really precious and showing text makes a quarter of my menu bar disappear for a brief moment.