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by FireBeyond 3771 days ago
That's a hugely wide menu bar app. Chews up nearly a quarter of the menu bar on my MBP.
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I loved the idea of this Bar Widget, but I had the same issues are you @FireBeyond.

Luckily you can easily hack the plugin as there's just 1 small file you have to edit (gh.5m.js)

The way you calculate your percentage is also super weird @Shikkic. It's all about daily contributes, but yet you calculate your percentage via the total contributes? I mean common, that will just give a fucking huge numbers. Also total contributes are not a stat I care about. Either way love the idea and the execution is quite cool :) Using it right now (albeit a tiny bit modified version)

here is a screenshot of my modified version (much smaller width, and some stats that I don't care about removed): http://www.imgpaste.net/image/AQBp

Yeah I need to make a few tweeks but thanks for the feeback! I love what you did to it, it looks great!
Yeah I wasn't sure if removing or abbreviating the names would be confusing. I went with being a bit more explicit on the labels.
Maybe you could go with different layouts that you can set via the env file? Like Compact mode (for people like me that have a 13" laptop) and a normal mode. Or perhaps your config can go more complex than that. But I think if you download this plugin, you will also know what those numbers mean, I would think. I'm a UX noob though.