Closing the panel was not enough: SimpleTopBar stayed frontmost, so
Spotlight's search field never appeared. Deactivate the app when a tray
item is selected so transient panels can take focus, and allow a little
more time before the bar re-hides.
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Selecting a tile opened the app's menu while SimpleTopBar's own panel
stayed on top of it, and could leave menus such as Spotlight stranded
behind it. Dismiss the panel first so the selected menu is unobstructed.
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Control Center items sat in the same grid as third-party app icons, which
was hard to scan. Group them so Apple's Wi-Fi, Battery, Clock and friends
are listed separately from your apps' icons.
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Hiding other apps' icons worked, but Apple pins Spotlight, Clock, Battery
and Control Center to the right of the menu bar, so a third-party item can
never be placed after them to push them away. Document the real limit so
the behaviour is not mistaken for a bug.
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New status items land leftmost, which on a notched Mac lands under the
notch and is invisible, so the app appeared broken. Replace MenuBarExtra
with a managed status item that carries an autosave name and a persisted
preferred position, and add a diagnostic dump to verify placement.
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The Menu Bar section silently stayed empty because nothing prompted for
Accessibility permission until a button inside the panel was clicked, so
the app looked inert. Prompt once on first launch instead.
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The menu bar icon is now a hamburger whose panel gathers every other
app's status item via the Accessibility API, so tray icons no longer
need to be hunted down across the menu bar. Items can be opened from
the panel, and a best-effort toggle pushes them off the real menu bar
so they only live there.
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