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Bartender for Mac

Bartender 5.0.48

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What's new in this version:

New Features:
Image comparison triggers (formally show for update image comparisons) are back:
- With macOS 14.1 Apple implemented changes I requested so I could recreate this feature without macOS showing the screen capture purple menu bar item
- Any previous image comparison show for updates from Bartender 4 should automatically be converted into triggers for you

Re-added the ability to leave menu bar items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item:
- This feature will keep any items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item always visible, even when Bartender swaps out your shown items for your hidden ones

Re-added the ability to always or never swap out shown items for hidden items:
- This was previously done automatically, only when there wasn't enough room to show your items unless swapped, now you can choose to keep it automatically, or never do this, or always do it

Fixed:
Image comparison triggers firing for certain color changes:
- There was a bug in Bartender, that would mean icons that just changed colors a certain amount would not fire the image trigger condition. This has been fixed.

Image comparison triggers not getting checked when icon had transparent center:
- There was a bug in Bartender, that would stop it checking icons with transparent centers sometimes (it thought they were blank icons). This has been fixed

Proton VPN popup showing when it shouldn't:
- Looking at the opensource code for Proton VPN I saw they already had a specific compatibility fix for Bartender, this did not work with Bartender 5, I have changed Bartender 5 so this compatibility fix can work again. Big thanks to the Proton Devs.

Menu bar style not applying correctly on some none english language systems:
- Due to name changes some none english language systems the wallpaper would not get drawn around rounded menu bar styles, this has been fixed

Compatibility with Bitwarden app:
I have found a workaround to prevent Bitwarden showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved

Typos and spellings:
Thanks to the users reporting these. They have been fixed.

Smaller bug fixes and improvements:
- As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through the other bug fixes