[MlMt] MailMate 6255 - New hidden preferences for message counts / counters

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 7 May 2025, at 17:30, Devyn Osborne wrote:

> 6255 release notes include a couple new hidden preferences related to 
> message counts and counters. Please excuse the naive questions:
>
> 1. “New: Hidden preference MmBadgeButtonMinimumWidthString can be 
> used by users disliking circular message counts.” Is this for the 
> notification badges? What is meant by circular message counts?

It's for the mailbox list within MailMate. In earlier macOS releases, 
these had a larger minimum width. Some macOS release changed this such 
that small counts would result in a circular count and I also changed 
MailMate (I try to match Apple design choices by default).

A user did not like this change (which is pretty old I think) and I 
provided him with this option to get it back. It can be used like this:

	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmBadgeButtonMinimumWidthString 
-string "99"

The minimum width would then be the width required to have a badge with 
the number 99 even if the count was just 1.

> 2. “New: Use MmStatusBarShowZeroCounts if you want the menu bar to 
> show counters even when they are 0. This is useful with some types of 
> third party menu bar apps (r6255).” What are the command lines to 
> enable and disable?

This was for a user using an app which can reorganize and show/hide 
counters. This did not work well when 0-counts would trigger MailMate to 
(temporarily) remove the count. It's used like this:

	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmStatusBarShowZeroCounts -bool YES

These are not very essential general features, but they might mean a lot 
to these particular users and they only took a few minutes to add.

-- 
Benny
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