Function to Hide the (useless????) menu bar in window app

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Thinh Nguyen

• July 31, 2018 18:03

We need something clean and clear writing environment, so I think it will be good idea to hide the menu bar ( edit/view/window/help) in the windows app. We almost never use it, and we dont care about it

Actually I dont use windows app, I prefer Chrome app ( it's gonna shutdown soon ) because in that app, there is no menu bar

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  JORGE TOLEDO GARCIA

  • October 23, 2018 16:27

  I just wanted to say +1 to this. The app would be much cleaner and more beautiful without that redundant and mostly useless menu. 

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  rawbytz

  • October 24, 2018 13:57

  Another option is to use Chrome's native shortcut feature via the "Customize and Control" menu:
  
  ⋮ > More Tools > Create Shortcut

  Make sure "Open as window" is checked. This creates a distraction-free Chrome instance that you can launch via chrome://apps or pin it to the taskbar. 
  
  The lone caveat is you lose off-line capability. The benefits are numerous:

  • extensions
  • copy links (via right click on a bullet)
  • multiple instances.

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  Yusuf Akbulut

  • October 31, 2018 09:16

  this. i like to use desktop client but that bar hurts my eyes.

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  Alexander Sheboltaev

  • November 18, 2018 09:37

  There are not much votes, but please remove the menu bar, as it seems to be a pretty simple change,

  and unfortunately there's no more an option of creating a Chrome app -- the shortcut just opens it in a browser.

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  rawbytz

  • November 18, 2018 17:52

  @Alexander  
  
  chrome://apps > Right click shortcut > Select "Open as window"

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  Alexander Sheboltaev

  • November 18, 2018 18:27

  @rawbytz

  Oh, thanks! Didn't know that.

  Still has some little disadvantages though: like slower startup time & doesn't work offline...

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  Miguel

  • February 24, 2019 13:23

  yes, please get rid of that menu bar!

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  Keith Wilson

  • April 02, 2019 23:34

  Adding my voice to this as well. If we cannot hide the bar can we get it to match the color scheme of the theme chosen?

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  Kevin Koslowski

  • September 07, 2019 09:07

  I like the offline support of WorkFlowy through the desktop app. But what I dislike is the horrible grey chromium style menu bar (on WIndows). The default windows menu bar on Windows 10 is white and integrates gently with the overall desktop theme. But the non-native menu bar is for one thing not very usefully (actually never used it, and the "toggle developer mode" feels a bit hacky too) and for another thing it breaks the immersive feeling of WorkFlowy. On Windows if the menu bar isnt shown by default, you can always show it by holding the "Alt"-Key. Wouldn't that be a good compromise? Maybe it could be activated via "Window"-Options or something like that. Would really appreciate. Thanks.

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  Gonçalo Cabrita

  • October 24, 2019 21:52

  Could we get an update on this?

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • October 25, 2019 01:49

  Hi! We are working on some major releases for before year end... and in the new year we will try and work our way down the bugs and suggestions lists to the items that have not been as urgent as the fires we have to put out on occasion. 

  ~ Frank

   

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