Bartender 3.1.5

Bartender lets you organize your menu-bar apps by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to Bartender’s Bar. You can display the full menu bar, set options to have menu-bar items show in the menu bar when they have updated, or have them always visible in Bartender’s Bar.

Features

• Lets you tidy your menubar apps how you want.
• See your menubar apps when you want.
• Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see.
• Have the clean looking menu bar you want.
• Rearrange your menubar items as you wish.

What’s New in Bartender 3.1.5

New Features / Improvements

Notification Center can now be hidden

Its been a long time coming, and now Notification Center can now be set to “Always Hide” or “Always Show”.

macOS 10.15 Catalina Support

This release will now ask the user for the new “Screen Recording” permission required for Bartender to work.
It needs this permission so that it can capture images of the menu bar items, it does this for 3 reasons, to make “show for updates” work, to display the menu items in preferences, and to create a smooth transition when switching states.

Bug Fixes

Rare crash fixes

We receive occasional crash reports of a crash we have not seen here, this build now has fixes to hopefully prevent the crash, or give us some more information about it.

Crashing when macOS does not apply Accessibility Permission Correctly

There is a bug in macOS that can cause Accessibility permissions to fail for an app, even though it has been setup correctly and is reported as such. Bartender now tries to detect this and help the user fix the issue by toggling the permission.

Item position being lost

There is a another bug in macOS that can cause menu items to appear overlapped and loose there order, Bartender has always tried to detect this and recover the positioning (but not the order), some users are experiencing the order of there items being lost, Changes have been made to try and prevent this.

UI layout issues on Permissions Screens

The permissions screens had layout issues in macOS version older than 10.15, this has been fixed.

Previous Test Build Crash

Previous test builds introduced a possible crash, more work has been done to fix this.

Hiding left menu not activating

Some users have experienced issues with the left menu not being hidden when needed, work has been done to fix this.

Bartender was not added to permissions list

On macOS Catalina, Bartender was not getting added to the screen capture list in preferences before prompting the user, this has been fixed.

Some UI elements not correct colour in dark mode

These should now all work correctly in Dark mode.

Apps without Display Name would be not be displayed correctly

Apps that do not have a display name could end up without a name in Bartender Preferences, this has now been fixed.

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