Menu bar: no simple way to show weekly % without the "W" prefix

[kedryte]

I want the menu bar to show just my weekly usage % for Codex and Claude.

• Weekly % always renders with a prefix: W 12%
• Auto % has no prefix, but often switches to the 5-hour window

The only way I found: Settings → Menu Bar → Layout → set scope to Codex → delete Auto % → click the second Weekly % chip. Then repeat for Claude.

That works, but it's hard to discover:

• The palette shows two chips labeled Weekly % (percent(.weekly) and lanePercent(.secondary)) that render differently (W 12% vs 12%).
• The lane chips only appear when a single provider is scoped, so each provider needs its own override.

Suggestion: an option to hide the window prefix (or a prefix-free Weekly choice in the percent picker), plus distinct labels for the lane chips.

CodexBar 0.69.0 · macOS 26.7.1

[clawsweeper]

Codex review: this still needs some work. Reviewed September 28, 2026, 10:59 PM ET / September 29, 2026, 02:59 UTC.

Summary
This is a concrete menu bar usability request. Current main can show a prefix-free weekly percentage through provider-specific lane tokens, but the two visually identical Weekly % choices behave differently, and the simpler global choice still adds a prefix. No related item found owns that remaining UX work.

Reproducibility: yes. The reported selection path and different rendered strings are supported by the current editor, renderer, and a focused renderer test; no live app run was performed.

Maintainer decision needed

Question	Recommendation
Should prefix-free weekly display become a global layout choice, or should the editor only clarify the existing provider-specific lane choices?	Add a global plain weekly choice: Make the weekly window selectable without a visible prefix for both providers and distinguish it from the existing lane token.

Why: The first option adds a persisted layout choice; the second preserves the current scope model but leaves the repeated provider setup. Source evidence establishes the tradeoff, not the intended UX.

Next step
Choose the intended global versus provider-specific layout behavior before implementing a new persisted selection.

Review details

Best possible solution:

Provide an explicitly named prefix-free weekly choice that works across Codex and Claude without changing saved layouts, and give the existing lane chips labels that reveal their different behavior.

Do we have a high-confidence way to reproduce the issue?

Yes. The reported selection path and different rendered strings are supported by the current editor, renderer, and a focused renderer test; no live app run was performed.

Is this the best way to solve the issue?

Unclear. A distinct global prefix-free weekly choice would address the repeated setup, but its persisted layout behavior needs a product choice before implementation.

AGENTS.md: found and applied where relevant.

Codex review notes: model internal, reasoning medium; reviewed against ed7e7c2dadc5.

Label changes

Label changes:

• add P2: The requested menu bar improvement has a working but hard-to-discover provider-by-provider workaround.
• add impact:ux-friction: Two Weekly % chips have different output, making the desired layout difficult to identify.
• add issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster: Current issue advisory state selects this label.
• add clawsweeper:source-repro: Current issue advisory state selects this label.
• add clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr: Current issue advisory state selects this label.
• add clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review: Current issue advisory state selects this label.
• add clawsweeper:needs-product-decision: Current issue advisory state selects this label.

Label justifications:

• P2: The requested menu bar improvement has a working but hard-to-discover provider-by-provider workaround.
• impact:ux-friction: Two Weekly % chips have different output, making the desired layout difficult to identify.

Evidence reviewed

What I checked:

• Reported workflow: The reporter describes two Weekly % chips, a provider-specific workaround, and the desired prefix-free selection on CodexBar 0.69.0.
• Palette and scope: The usage palette includes fixed weekly and provider-lane tokens; the editor supplies a provider to the palette only for provider-specific editing. (Sources/CodexBar/MenuBarLayoutEditor.swift:46, ed7e7c2dadc5)
• Different rendered text: The fixed weekly percentage adds a window prefix, while a lane percentage renders its value without that prefix. (Sources/CodexBar/MenuBarLayoutRenderer.swift:761, ed7e7c2dadc5)
• Existing behavior test: A renderer test expects the fixed weekly token to display W 60% and a lane token to display 10%. (Tests/CodexBarTests/MenuBarLayoutRendererTests.swift:674, ed7e7c2dadc5)
• Documented layout path: The UI guide documents global and provider-specific layouts and directs Codex or Claude weekly usage selection through a provider scope. (docs/ui.md:43, ed7e7c2dadc5)
• Feature history: Merged feat: add provider usage lanes to menu bar layouts #3039 added provider usage lanes; this identifies relevant prior work, not a fix for the requested UX. (Sources/CodexBar/MenuBarLayoutEditor.swift:52, 83e7deb3566e)

Likely related people:

• giuseppebisemi: Suggested for follow-up; no historical authorship or introduction is verified. (role: unverified routing candidate; confidence: low)
• steipete: Suggested for follow-up; no historical authorship or introduction is verified. (role: unverified routing candidate; confidence: low)

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[kedryte]

Just an idea: this would be a little bit bigger of a change, but you could have a single "Weekly" chip with a config popup that appears when you click it, with a checkbox for whether to include the "W" prefix. A lot of other lane tokens would probably benefit from the ability to add configuration options.