Ice 0.10.2

What's New

• Improved the logic for retrieving menu bar items.
• Menu bar item images no longer update if the app isn't focused, leading to increased efficiency and the purple screen capture icon appearing less often.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that would occur when the Ice Bar was longer than the width of the screen.
• Fixed a visual glitch where menu bar items wouldn't initially show in the "Menu Bar Items" settings.
• Fixed faulty menu bar item image caching.
• Fixed a bug that caused the visible section's arranging interface to disappear in "Menu Bar Items" settings when the Ice icon was disabled.
• Adjusted the menu bar split appearance shape to have even padding on both sides when using the inset appearance on screens with a notch.

Full Changelog: 0.10.1...0.10.2

Ice 0.10.1

NOTE: This is a hotfix release for a bug that was introduced in 0.10.0 that could prevent one or more sections from hiding.

What's New (0.10.0)

• Menu bar items can now be shown in a secondary bar below the menu bar! (look for "Use Ice Bar" in the "General" settings pane).
• Added ability to move menu bar items individually in a new "Menu Bar Items" settings pane.
• Menu bar appearance can now be inset on screens with a notch.
• Ice now ensures that the always-hidden section stays to the left of the hidden section.
• Added the ability to disable the always-hidden section.
• Ice now launches in the background by default.
• Ice now uses the GPL-3.0 license.

Bug Fixes (0.10.0)

• The menu bar appearance overlay should now work with fullscreen in apps that don't use the default macOS fullscreen interface, such as VLC and Keynote.
• Reliably check for default macOS fullscreen spaces.
• Fixed mouse location checks in fullscreen and when using multiple displays.
• The menu bar appearance now renders at the correct size across multiple displays with different sized menu bars (i.e. when one display has a notch and the other does not).
• Fixed screen flicker when playing DRM media.
• Improved reliability of application menu hiding.
• Fixed excessive CPU usage by menu bar overlay panel when switching apps.

Full Changelog: 0.10.0...0.10.1

Ice 0.10.0

What's New

• Menu bar items can now be shown in a secondary bar below the menu bar! (look for "Use Ice Bar" in the "General" settings pane).
• Added ability to move menu bar items individually in a new "Menu Bar Items" settings pane.
• Menu bar appearance can now be inset on screens with a notch.
• Ice now ensures that the always-hidden section stays to the left of the hidden section.
• Added the ability to disable the always-hidden section.
• Ice now launches in the background by default.
• Ice now uses the GPL-3.0 license.

Bug Fixes

• The menu bar appearance overlay should now work with fullscreen in apps that don't use the default macOS fullscreen interface, such as VLC and Keynote.
• Reliably check for default macOS fullscreen spaces.
• Fixed mouse location checks in fullscreen and when using multiple displays.
• The menu bar appearance now renders at the correct size across multiple displays with different sized menu bars (i.e. when one display has a notch and the other does not).
• Fixed screen flicker when playing DRM media.
• Improved reliability of application menu hiding.
• Fixed excessive CPU usage by menu bar overlay panel when switching apps.

New Contributors

• @smbl64 made their first contribution in #126
• @eltociear made their first contribution in #132

Full Changelog: 0.9.0...0.10.0

Ice 0.10.0 (Beta 6)

What's New

• You can now right click items in the Ice Bar
• Ice Bar now dynamically changes its color depending on its location
• Menu bar appearance can now be inset on screens with a notch
• Added the ability to disable the always-hidden section
• Ice now ensures that the always-hidden section stays to the left of the hidden section
• Ice now uses the GPL-3.0 license

Bug Fixes

• Fixed menu bar item image capture
• Items and their images are no longer cached during a move
• Items are no longer arranged while the mouse is moving or a mouse button is down
• Fixed application menus occasionally not hiding
• Fixed a bug where appearance overlays would move to another screen on multi-display setups where one screen had a fullscreen space
• Menu bar appearance now renders at the correct size on different screens when one of them has a notch

Full Changelog: 0.10.0-beta.5...0.10.0-beta.6

Ice 0.10.0 (Beta 5)

What's New

• Ice now informs you if a menu bar item is unresponsive when you try to move it
• Workaround for a timeout caused by certain event tapping apps, such as Magnet
• Ice now attempts to wake up menu bar items if they aren't responding to events
• Removed ability to pin the Ice Bar for now (will be included in a future release)
• Drastically improved menu bar item image caching speed and efficiency
• Menu bar items now dynamically update in the Ice Bar
  • Note: Currently, items update at an interval of every 3 seconds. In a future update,
    there will be an option to adjust the interval to get closer to real time display
• The Ice Bar has been redesigned, and now matches your specific menu bar styling
• You can now choose where the Ice Bar appears:
  • Centered below the cursor
  • Centered below the Ice icon
  • Left of screen
  • Right of screen
  • In addition to the above options, you can have Ice choose a dynamic location based
    on the current context

Bug Fixes

• Fixed menu bar items from disappearing from the Ice Bar immediately after it appears
• Fixed menu bar items not accepting clicks (hopefully)
• The Ice Bar should now reliably work in fullscreen
• The Ice Bar should now reliably work across displays
• The Ice Bar now respects the show on hover feature
• The menu bar appearance overlay should now work with fullscreen in apps that don't use
  the default macOS fullscreen interface, such as VLC and Keynote
• Fixed screen flicker when playing DRM media

Full Changelog: 0.10.0-beta.4...0.10.0-beta.5

Ice 0.10.0 (Beta 4)

What's New

• The secondary bar is now called the Ice Bar in settings
• The Ice Bar now appears centered under the Ice icon
• The Ice Bar can now be pinned to a specific location on-screen. Access this feature by right clicking the bar.
• The Ice Bar now shows asynchronously, after the menu bar item image cache is updated

Bug Fixes

• Items in the Ice Bar now render at the correct aspect ratio on different displays
• Fixed menu bar items being detected in the wrong section
• Improved menu bar item image cache reliability
• Ice no longer restores temporarily shown items if they are manually moved
• Hit testing for items in the Ice Bar is more reliable
• Ice no longer triggers a GUI scripting warning in Little Snitch
• Fixed a regression in the previous betas that was causing the menu bar appearance overlay to cut off some shown items

Full Changelog: 0.10.0-beta.3...0.10.0-beta.4

Ice 0.10.0 (Beta 3)

What's New

• Allow secondary bar to be moved via drag
• Temporarily shown items are now rehidden when showing the secondary bar
• The secondary bar now waits for item menus to close before rehiding temporarily shown items

Bug Fixes

• Fixed inconsistencies when toggling between the secondary bar and standard mode
• Fixed secondary bar not appearing on external displays (hopefully)
• Fixed secondary bar not updating with current items
• Items in the secondary bar should now be displayed with the correct aspect ratio (hopefully)
• Don't show sections when Command+dragging if using the secondary bar
• Cache item images to prevent excessive screen capture use
• Showing item menus is now more reliable

Full Changelog: 0.10.0-beta.2...0.10.0-beta.3

Ice 0.10.0 (Beta 2)

What's New

• Menu bar items can now be shown in a secondary bar below the menu bar

Full Changelog: 0.10.0-beta.1...0.10.0-beta.2

Ice 0.10.0 (Beta 1)

What's New

• Menu bar items can now be moved individually in Ice's settings
• Ice now launches in the background by default

New Contributors

• @smbl64 made their first contribution in #126
• @eltociear made their first contribution in #132

Full Changelog: 0.9.0...0.10.0-beta.1

Ice 0.9.0

What's New

• Slight UI redesign

Bug Fixes

• Fixed menu bar items not hiding on secondary screens when the "show section dividers" feature is disabled
• Fixed menu bar appearance not applying across multiple displays
• Menu bar appearance now updates more reliably when the focused application changes
• Fixed mouse cursor detection not working across multiple displays. Features like "show on hover" and "show on click" should now behave correctly on external displays
• Fixed an occasional bug where hotkeys weren't deleting

Other Changes

• Optimizations
  • Menu bar appearance only updates the components that need it
• Slight menu bar appearance design refresh
• You can now change the opacity of the menu bar border

New Contributors

• @cdcharlebois made their first contribution in #79
• @daemedeor made their first contribution in #86

Full Changelog: 0.8.0...0.9.0