The habit of cluttering the menubar with bitty icons when the full features of an application are available from the Mac OS X Dock is something borrowed from that, um, other operating system.

I really have no reason to use the BOINC menu when all of its features are available from the a click-hold on the BOINC Manager (6.2.18) icon in the Dock -- where, in fact, they should be made available according to standard Mac OS practices. The GUI of the Mac version of BOINC Manager could use a lot of polish, but I strongly suggest that one of the priorities for this should be to give users of the Mac Manager the option to show or hide the menubar icon.

TH

Running BOINC as a daemon or system service will enable you to close BOINC manager but keep BOINC running.

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Hmm... No, that's not it. I *want* to run BOINC Manager -- to be reminded that BOINC is running and to allow me to quickly click on the icon in the Dock so as to see my progress.

I just don't need or want the menuItem in the menu bar. I can see that a widget of this kind would be of use on Windows, but it's superfluous on a Mac and adds to the visual clutter of the screen. The menu bar should be reserved for control items that have no other direct interface (Mobile Me synching, speaker volume control, Spotlight queries, utilities like Hazel, etc.)

TH

I heartily agree. There is no need for a menubar item on the Macintosh for the reasons Terry has stated. This is what the Dock is for.

Very much agreed. This needs to be at least among the preferences.

I heartily add my agreement! The BOINCManager icon is in my Dock-- I don't NEED one in my menubar, too.

I'd like this feature, too. It'd be nice to be able to run BOINC without all the clutter.