Sort your menubar icons
Tigerstorm (1010 points) | Thu, 2006-02-16 20:47
Have you ever wanted to move the clock, bluetooth, volume, screen or any apple standards icon in the menubar? If so.. Check this simple tip out then..
This tip is tested on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, but may also work on previous versions..
The trick is so simple but is probably undiscovered by many users.. You're probably asking yourself, do I need to edit some files, open up the system folder or type any hidden keyword.. No it's much more easier then that..
Just press CMD or Apple button on your keyboard and hold your mouse over the icon in the menubar and just drag the icon where you want it to be, this way you could sort your menubar icons in your own personal order.. Or you could always use the orginal positions.. :)
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I always wanted to do that but never figured it out. Now I have the icons the way I want it. I use OS X 10.3.9
Great Tip!
I've been using this function since X 10.2, so it pretty much works everywhere.
What is does NOT work on is the SpotLight icon and programs such as Xscope, Adium, Temperature Monitor, and StickyBrain that don't use Apple's spec for menu extras.
If you don't want a certain menu extra up there at all, you can just drag it off the menu bar with this same method. It poofs away.
yeah some of mine that dont work with that, is adium, konfabulator(yahoo widget engine), icontroller, and gmailstatus.
all native OS items comply fine with it though.
thanks
d. graf
still at large
...don't use Apple's spec for menu extras
Actually, its not that the developers are not following Apple's spec for menu items, its that Apple doesn't provide access to API used for those 'draggable' menu items. The non-draggable menu-items use the class NSStatusItem, the draggable menu-items use a private class (meaning their is no documentation on how to use it) called NSMenuExtra (which actually is an extension of NSStatusItem). As the author of a menu-item application, App Stop, I've received alot of requests asking the application to be draggable; but, the fact is its alot harder than you would think to make the menu-item draggable.
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