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Frameless window on MacOS #14

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@egardner

Electron supports a few different methods for running an app without the gray menu bar on MacOS (apparently this works on some Linux distros as well).

In my opinion this goes a long way towards making the app feel "native". Compare this (default navbar):
screen shot 2017-02-14 at 5 15 00 pm

To this (no navbar):
screen shot 2017-02-14 at 5 16 06 pm

Of course, the UI elements in the top left start to collide and will need to be adjusted for this approach:
screen shot 2017-02-14 at 5 08 03 pm

I'm going to explore some design solutions for this problem in the ui-improvements branch, and if folks like the results I'll merge into master.

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