Apparently Quicksilver is your only third-party menu bar icon, and all the others are built-ins.
Things like the clock, Airport icon, Volume control icon, Time Machine icon, etc., are built into Mac OS X. Apple uses a special method for those icons (which, among other things, allows them to be reordered by Cmd-dragging). In the interest of preserving system stability, Apple makes non-Apple software use a different method to put icons in the menu bar. This means (1) that such icons cannot be mixed in with the Apple ones, and (2) that Cmd-dragging does not work as a method to reorder the icons within this group. The groups of icons in the menu bar are always drawn in this order (from right to left): Spotlight icon, other built-in icons, third party icons. Within each section, it is possible to reorder the icons by various means, but it is not possible to move icons from one section to another, or to change the order of the sections. So what Quicksilver's setting does is allow the Quicksilver icon to be the rightmost icon in its section, but it will still always be to the left of the built-in icons. And since Quicksilver is your only third party icon, being first or last on a list of one makes no difference. In short, only Apple could change this, and they aren't likely to. On Aug 30, 9:58 am, JadeMatrix <[email protected]> wrote: > What I meant was, as I disabled Spotlight, the Spotlight icon is no > longer in the menubar. I want to reposition the Qs icon to be the > rightmost of the third-party icons, so it seems to replace the > Spotlight icon. It's that I can't reposition it at all. When I try > to command-drag, the drop-down menu appears; when I try this on other > icons, it allows them to be re-ordered. > > Something to note: command-drag also doesn't work on Visor's icon. > > On Aug 30, 8:24 am, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, that's not possible. Menu bar icons exist in three > > classes: the Spotlight icon, the various OS X native icons, and third > > party icons. The three cannot be mixed together; it is only possible > > to rearrange icons within their respective groups. It has been this > > was since at least Tiger (when I first entered the Mac world). > > > On Aug 29, 7:16 pm, JadeMatrix <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Quicksilver â54, OS X 10.5.8 > > > > I'm trying to reposition the Quicksilver menubar icon to replace the > > > Spotlight icon (which I've disabled). However, the "Left" and "Right" > > > options in the Qs prefs don't work, and when set on "Normal" it can't > > > be repositioned with command-drag like other icons. I seem to > > > remember a previous version working, though (at that time I thought > > > this feature was annoying :) . > > > > I tried this first on a G5 iBook, and then on an Intel iMac.
