# SimpleTopBar

A native macOS menu bar app that shows a compact top bar with every app that is
running on your Mac, split into two sections:

- **Apps** — regular apps that live in the Dock.
- **Background Apps** — accessory/agent apps without a Dock icon. This section
  is a **dropdown**: it stays collapsed to a single header, and when you expand
  it only the first few apps are shown. The rest are hidden behind a
  **Show N more** row so the list never overflows the panel.

Click any row to activate the app, or right-click for Activate / Hide / Quit.

## Install with Homebrew

```bash
brew tap TZGyn/tap https://gitea.tzgyn.dev/TZGyn/homebrew-tap.git
brew trust TZGyn/tap
brew install --cask simpletopbar
```

The tap is hosted on Gitea, so the full URL is required. Homebrew may print an
"Unsupported tap" warning — it's harmless.

## Build from source

```bash
swift build                 # debug build
swift run SimpleTopBar      # run from terminal (app appears in the menu bar)
swift run SimpleTopBar --self-test   # headless check of the dropdown logic
./build-app.sh 0.1.0        # release build + SimpleTopBar.app bundle + icon + codesign
./release.sh 0.1.0          # build-app.sh + dist/SimpleTopBar.zip + sha256
```

## Around the Background dropdown

The background section is collapsed by default. Expanding it reveals
`AppListModel.backgroundPageSize` (5) apps at a time; when more are running a
**Show N more** button reveals the next page. Collapsing resets the page.

## Releases

`./release.sh <version>` builds and zips the app to `dist/SimpleTopBar.zip` and
prints its sha256. Tag `v<version>`, attach the zip to a release on the Gitea
repo, and bump `version`/`sha256` in the cask in
[TZGyn/homebrew-tap](https://gitea.tzgyn.dev/TZGyn/homebrew-tap).