RFE: (bug?) Behaviour of Adium icon in Menu Bar.

[Skipchris]

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

[eevyl]

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.

[Skipchris]

*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 :)

[Son of a Preacher Man]

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

[dbomb]

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

[Skipchris]

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?

[evands]

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.