Ability to hide the app

[mark5422]

Currently, there is no option to hide the app and as such it always has its window available. It would be a nice enhancement to the app to be able to hide it from view.

[siwalikm]

Doesn't this solve your issue?

[mark5422]

That does solve the problem in a way but also could be considered just moving it to a different location by adding it at the end of the dock.

What would be ideal would be a Hide command in the apps menu bar. My workflow involves hiding apps rather than minimising them. May just be because I don't want the clutter in the dock however.

[siwalikm]

can you give example of some apps which displays such behaviour?

[mark5422]

[mark5422]

It's a system-wide ability on the Mac. I did download the code and saw that it wasn't a native Mac app so that could just be a limitation of the way it was created.

[siwalikm]

Okay, I now get where you're coming from!
Thanks for raising this issue @mark5422! I'll surely try to incorporate this in future versions so keeping this issue open for future reference.

[iamajvillalobos]

What about menu bar placement? I was surprise it didn't have that option :)

[chipotle]

I know it's nearly two years on, but I'd like to chime and add encouragement for this. I'd also like the volume control, but I'm pretty sure Coffitivity Offline is the only Mac app I've ever seen that doesn't have the "Hide (Application Name)" and "Hide Others" commands in the application menu. (I admit I'm genuinely surprised Electron doesn't just provide that automatically on the Mac -- it's there in Visual Studio Code, Slack, and Spotify, and I figured it was built into the framework just like it is for "native" apps!)

Edited to add: it'd also be nice to just have a little more keyboard support for common keyboard shortcuts. Just now I wanted to pause Coffitivity so I could attend a virtual standup, and hit [space] to pause, which worked, followed by Command-M to minimize it again, which didn't work. Again, this is a standard Mac shortcut that normally goes in the View menu; I know Coffitivity Offline is very minimal but maybe it's a little too minimal in this respect. :)

It looks like Electron actually has system-defined standard menus on macOS available, which might be worth looking into.

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/menu#standard-menus

[siwalikm]

Thanks for bringing this up @chipotle, honestly this issue had slipped my mind. I'll try to work on a newer version by this quarter (hopefully) and try to add support for in-app volume controls and hide option in native menubar.

Regarding the kb-shortcuts, its a reasonable ask, I'll try to add a shortcut to minimise.