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Make an option so that closing the app exits rather than minimising to tray
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The only way to currently close the nextcloud talk application in Windows so that it no longer takes resources involves right clicking on the tray icon in Windows and clicking close. The X button in windows has historically meant the application stops and memory is released and the - button minimises the application. Some applications use - to minimise to tray instead of the taskbar. There is a missing function here for something that has become more common with applications and this is why most applications make tray minimisation optional.
In this case I think my preferred functionality is an option for close to close the application instead of minimise, I don't want to run it all the time after its launched.
Describe the solution you'd like In the settings list next to start with Windows another option for close minimises to tray which can be turned off or on and defaults to the current behaviour of on.
Describe alternatives you've considered It might be preferable from a Windows point of view to make the minimise button minimise to tray and have the close button close the application completely. This would likely further warrant another option for minimise to taskbar instead of the tray as an option in the settings.
Another possibility is a custom button on the bar which has been done by a few other applications to add the function of minimise to tray.
The X button in windows has historically meant the application stops
It has not.
The X button is a window control button. And like other window control buttons, it means "Close the window". Like _ ("Minimize") only means "Minimize the window", not "Minimize the entire application".
An app might quit on the last/main window close.
But it is typical for Windows apps to stay in the system tray (that's why there is the system tray). Especially for the messengers. Unlike other OSs without the system tray.
And even without the system tray. You can open 2 web-browser windows. Pressing "Close" on one window only closes that specific window. It doesn't quit the entire web-browser with all the windows, does it?
Another possibility is a custom button on the bar which has been done by a few other applications to add the function of minimise to tray.
We always use system buttons. Not every desktop environment allows adding custom buttons.
Regardless of the comment above, we'll likely add this feature, as it might be useful for users not using Talk all the time.
And the opposite option for OS without the system tray, where "close" means "minimize"
it would be useful to deal with #1018 currently when closing it goes into the background, but with the missing tray icon there is no way to bring it back due to #1091
