cogentcore
Desktop features: borderless window and systray
Describe the feature
Suggested Features:
Borderless Window: Allows creating windows without standard borders and title bars, enabling custom window designs and an immersive user experience.
Hide Taskbar Icon: Provides an option to prevent the application’s icon from appearing on the taskbar while running, suitable for applications that primarily run in the background or rely on a system tray icon.
System Tray Icon and Menu: Supports adding an icon to the system tray (notification area) with a context menu, allowing users to interact with the application conveniently from the tray.
These features will enhance Cogent Core’s flexibility and usability on the Windows platform.
Relevant code
A systray app is an intriguing thought ; However, systray apps are specific to desktop.
I'm not sure I can picture that as a builtin feature for any platform besides desktop.
it should still be possible to include a systray app using other libraries like fyne.
Custom / borderless windows might also be an interesting feature as well - though, again, it presents challenges for cross-platform compatibility and might be a feature specific to desktop if it's ever implemented.
@lujihong @0pcom Yes, these are interesting ideas that we can implement at some point, although they are not a very high priority for us given that they are platform-specific. However, they shouldn't be too hard to implement; we can use https://github.com/fyne-io/systray for the systray functionality, and we can set glfw.Decorated to gflw.False for the borderless window.
If anyone is interested in filing a PR for these features, that would be great. You can add fields to core.Stage for the systray and decoration control; a simple Decorated bool that defaults to true would work for that. If someone attempts this, please ask me any questions you have and I can help you get things working.
Otherwise, we will get to these features at some point, but not anytime soon.
I want to know how to control the display and hiding of windows so that they can be used with a third-party tray library.
