Font size in menu has decreased

[magicus]

At first I thought I was getting slightly mad, but I can swear that the menu text has changed in some of latest beta releases. It used to be the case (at least in BitBar) that the plugin output and the fixed text from xbar/BitBar was the same size. Now, the latter is as it used to be, but the former is smaller. See screenshot. (Effect is greater and easier to see when you compare with e.g. Time Machine drop down menu)

[matryer]

@magicus You're right - although it's not entirely obvious why. Perhaps @leaanthony can shed some light on this, could be a new default in Wails.

[matryer]

v2.0.17-beta has the new font size fix.

[matryer]

@magicus please try the latest release and we can close this if you agree the font sizes are back to normal.

[leaanthony]

There's been no underlying change so this is pretty curious!

[matryer]

OK well they're set explicitly for now. So closing this. Thanks everyone.

[magicus]

Actually, the new beta is ... well... I'm sorry to say, but it's just at bad but the other way around -- now the font is too large. :-( The "Preferences" is still what I'd consider normal font size -- it's the same as in BitBar, and in other tray icon menues. But now the plugin output is larger than this...

[matryer]

@magicus OK I'm going to try one more tweak that will go out in the next release. (will be v2.0.20-beta+)

[Joshfindit]

I was just noticing that my fonts are smaller with xbar than they are with BitBar.

xbar to the left of the dropbox icon, bitbar to the right

On my system (10.13.6 and xbar v2.0.37-beta), the BitBar font is the system default, and xbar is something else.

@matryer Is it possible to expose the default font/size/style as a preference in xbar? I feel like MacOS is not making this easy with the change in APis due to font rendering on HiDPI displays.

[leaanthony]

Will test on High Sierra and get back to you 👍

[leaanthony]

PR #677 should fix this. Screenshots from High Sierra 👍

[Joshfindit]

The reason that I asked about a preference is that, in my experience, stuff like this is extremely fiddly.

View in full to see that the tops and bottoms of the characters don't line up in the menubar. Line height for menus is bang-on though