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I am not the target audience for macOS menu bar managers like Ice. You can drag-reorder icons in pure macOS without any third-party software, and the additional options seem unnecessary.


Why would anyone write comment like this? Like does it add anything to the discussion? Who cares that you dont use menubar apps so you dont need Bartender.


Because some people may just need this so it is good for them to know, in conjunction to this

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16lpfg5/hidden_prefe...

> to change the spacing in the menubar and I found out it changes two preferences:

```

    defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int X

    defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int Y
```

> which can be reverted with

```

    defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing

    defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding
```

I learnt about these in a similar topic here. I do not need anything more from a bar app really, so I do not need to install an additional app for sth that I can just handle through a couple of preferences changes in the terminal. For people who do need more functionality, they can get one of these tools.


I opened the README and Usage section only showed how to reorder items, nothing else. This app is utterly unnecessary for that purpose. I thought, perhaps other macOS users are unaware of that, and my comment would help.


It shows how to reorder them into groups that are hidden temporarily and/or permanently. Very useful to keep a clutter free and optimised workspace.




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