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Add "system tray" direction (easy issue)

Open make-your-soft-better opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

I have placed the "system tray" applet on the right side of my lxpanel, between the "windows list" and the "keyboard layout". When a new application opens with an icon in the system tray, it appears on the right, near the "keyboard layout", and all previous icons move to the left. This greatly spoils the view - it is impossible to get used to where the icons are, because they are constantly moving. On Windows, new icons appear on the left, and it doesn't look so broken.

Example on LXDE:

Looking cool. 1

Open Discord. 2 Looking broken. Network-manager applet and "volume icon" moved to live in another country. System icon, system icon, DISCORD, system icon...

At this moment, the "system tray" applet cannot be configured. I suggest adding the ability to customize which side the icons will appear - on the left or on the right. Thus, LXDE will become much more convenient and beautiful thanks to such a small detail. I don't think this is a difficult task, and that it will greatly increase the overall weight of the LXDE. But it will make it very pleasant for everyone who likes to set up their own system.

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If you want to add the ability to move icons in the system tray, then you should also be able to change the direction of new icons.

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for LXDE! This is the best minimalistic DE!

make-your-soft-better avatar Aug 04 '24 08:08 make-your-soft-better

I add it to the feature request here https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-panel/issues/2124

kurokawachan avatar Sep 27 '24 12:09 kurokawachan

@kurokawachan As far as I understand, has such functionality been added to LXQT, or has it been rejected? And I do not know what to do with LXDE, the last updates were 2 months ago - at first I thought that something had happened to the author, considering what country he was from (judging by the colored avatar), but judging by his activity, so far everything is fine. The author has not yet accepted the request to fix the freeze. Is it worth make a fork and knocking on all Linux distributions about updates in their repositories, or is it worth waiting for the author and asking him why he does not accept requests?

make-your-soft-better avatar Oct 30 '24 00:10 make-your-soft-better

Hello @make-your-soft-better

  • it ("system tray" direction feature) has been added to LXQT, with active help of maintainer of LXQT
  • it ("system tray" direction feature) has not been added to LXDE
  • I don't plan to implement it unless I know for sure the maintainer of LXDE is actively reviewing it
  • request to fix the freeze has not received any review
  • I do not know why the maintainer of LXDE don't do about it
  • I don't know about forking LXDE, however a previous attempt by someone else seems not succeeding link

kurokawachan avatar Nov 05 '24 06:11 kurokawachan