Ability to modify the menu bar at runtime

[danmatthews]

I would love to be able to swap the menu bar icon at runtime to show different states (errors/new alerts/updates available etc).

[bbredewold]

Yep, that's on my wish list too. Maybe I'll write a PR for this.
Also it would be nice to make the icon optional, for text-only menu-bar-apps :)

[modernben]

I think this is a bigger discussion of being able to manipulate the MenuBar in general after boot. If you do this it'll change but currently, there isn't a method to grab the MenuBar instance after boot. Talking with another dev on discord he suggested putting the $bar into the service container and then grabbing it later (in a cron job or something) but I am still struggling with how to do that.

$bar = MenuBar::create()
    ->icon(public_path('menuBarIcon.png'));

$bar->icon('something_else.png');

[simonhamp]

This should now be doable in nativephp/laravel v0.6.3 and nativephp/electron v0.8.6.

Docs incoming.