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OK - I'm almost apologetic about mentioning this: it's a tiny, tiny issue - but because of that it may only require a tiny tiny fix :)

The Adium icon in my menu bar is 'seperate' from the OS X icons - in a way that's slightly annoying to hover over them. For instance - if i click on the clock, for a menu, and drift my mouse left, over volume, language settings, and displays; their menus appear - I reach Adium, and it doesn't. Likewise, if I click on Adium for a menu and drift right, I can't access the OS X utilities without re-clicking.

I realise this may be a 'feature' of the OS itself for which there's no workaround - in which case feel free to slap me down like a fool - but I've no other apps to test it with.

Adium: 0.7/0.8b10
OS X: 10.3

Skipchris wrote:I realise this may be a 'feature' of the OS itself for which there's no workaround - in which case feel free to slap me down like a fool - but I've no other apps to test it with.

*slaps Skipchris*

Rather than a feature is a no-feature. Apple forbides any third-party app to become a true menu extra, so we have to use the public API for the thing which as you pointed out has several limitations.

eevyl wrote:
*slaps Skipchris*

Rather than a feature is a no-feature. Apple forbides any third-party app to become a true menu extra, so we have to use the public API for the thing which as you pointed out has several limitations.

:Grrrooowl: - how annoying of Apple.

Ah well - thought i'd ask.

I totally [heart] Adium - but you probably know that, otherwise I wouldn't be here :)

They forbid it, or they just don't document it? Seems a funny thing to forbid entirely..

Third Party menu items can become menu extras, but it is a hack and the devs of adium want clean code, so they don't want to use hacks. I really don't see why apple does not let third party apps have menu extras

would it be possible to create an xtra for this behaviour, for those of us pedants it bothers? Or does that fall outside of what can be done?

Skipchris wrote:would it be possible to create an xtra for this behaviour, for those of us pedants it bothers? Or does that fall outside of what can be done?

It'd be a separate application.. but would then fall nicely into a miscellaneous category on the xtras site which should exist at some point anyways. It'd need to communicate with Adium via applescript, I believe.