Reorder Third Party Menu Bar Items

[jeremybuff]

I am having a bit of an issue. I understand that holding down command, clicking on an OS X menu bar item and dragging right or left will allow me to reposition the menu bar items. However, how do I do this with third party applications?

I can only reposition Leopard's menu bar items. Does anyone have any ideas that they would be willing to share?

 

[r.j.s]

So far, the only solution I see is to quit the apps, and reopen them in the order you want them to appear ... from right to left.

 

[jeremybuff]

Man, it just seems like there should be an easier way for this. I'll search around the Internet and see what I can dig up. So far, I have not found anything useful.

 

[r.j.s]

Good luck to you, if you find something, post it here so we can share. It seems to be a fairly common question.

 

[jeremybuff]

I will certainly repost. I noticed that Apple never official released information so that developers could create menu bar items, so they are all "hacks". I guess they didn't want Mac OS X to become cluttered like Windows. Oh well, I'll keep searching for it.