SolvedMailspring [Feature Request] Add 'Hide menu bar' menu item

Are there any related issues?

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What operating system are you using?

Elementary OS

What version of Mailspring are you using?

1.0.3

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Bug?

Do you have any third-party plugins installed? If so, which ones?

No plugins

Is the issue related to a specific email provider (Gmail, Exchange, etc.)?

No, it concerns application's interface, not email accounts.

Is the issue reproducible with a particular attachment, message, signature, etc?

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Feature Request?

Does this feature exist in another mail client or tool you use?

Hidden menubar in the previous (1.0.2) version was great for sleek Elementary OS look. Now it is impossible to hide, so it is a bit of visual clutter some people will find unnecessary. Let the user decide if he wants to see the menubar all the time by creating a menu item or a checkbox in the Preferences, just like Firefox and Thunderbird do.

You can make this permanent by using a plugin :
create a folder for the plugin : 'hide-menu-bar'
create a file called 'package.json' in that folder :

{
  "name": "hide-menu-bar",
  "main": "./main",
  "engines": {
    "mailspring": ">=1.0.8"
  },
  "description": "Plugin for mailspring : hide the menu bar (Alt to toggle)",
  "license": "MIT"
}

then create a file called 'main.es6' in the same folder :

import electron from 'electron';

export function activate() {
	let win = electron.remote.getCurrentWindow();
	win.setMenuBarVisibility(false);
	win.setAutoHideMenuBar(true);
}

then in Mailspring :
Developer >> Install plugin
and select the 'hide-menu-bar' folder.

Hey folks - in the next release I'm adding a preference for this, as well as a new option to use the "right corner hamburger menu" and completely custom window controls. I think this will improve things a lot, especially on distros like Elementary where the standard window frame is very tall.

New options:

"Right corner hamburger" option - note the system window frame is not used at all, so it'll look like this (or your selected theme) on all Linux distros:

You just need to toggle the developer tools (Ctrl+Alt+I) and paste this in the console :
require('electron').remote.getCurrentWindow().setAutoHideMenuBar(true)
Then you can toggle the menu bar using Alt.
You need to do this everytime you restart Mailspring though.