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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon oconnor663

Tray icon

Open roberth1990 opened this issue 11 years ago • 20 comments

An icon in the tray on the desktop would be very nice, please.

roberth1990 avatar May 17 '13 16:05 roberth1990

Merging with #34

oconnor663 avatar May 17 '13 17:05 oconnor663

So a tray icon is out of the question?

roberth1990 avatar May 17 '13 18:05 roberth1990

Oh my bad, I misinterpreted this. Not out of the question. The app currently quits when the main window is closed, though, so we might want to rearchitect it a bit to run in the background if we add a tray icon. Not sure how that would interact with Gnome 3.8, which seems to hide the tray below the visible desktop.

oconnor663 avatar May 17 '13 18:05 oconnor663

Well an option to enable and disable it would be useful for gnome users.

roberth1990 avatar May 17 '13 18:05 roberth1990

Has there been done any work on this?

roberth1990 avatar May 21 '13 23:05 roberth1990

No, I'm not working on this one myself, since the current design of the app is simpler/portable and works well for me. If anyone else wants to try it, though, I'd be happy to merge it.

oconnor663 avatar May 26 '13 03:05 oconnor663

I tried it for ubuntu, but got problem with using indicate library. Anyway I will take a look.

ghost avatar Jun 24 '13 11:06 ghost

:+1: for a 'close to tray' option!

Rubeast avatar Nov 03 '13 21:11 Rubeast

minimizing his great app into tray would be awesome. love it also as it is now. i neither know python nor qt, but i found this on stackoverflow, mb this will help some creative mind to implement this option =)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/758256/pyqt4-minimize-to-tray

faugeh avatar Dec 25 '13 19:12 faugeh

Tray icon (mimize to tray) is absolutely needed. Without it it's useless to me.

uiii avatar Jan 15 '14 15:01 uiii

I want to work on this feature. I already have some working code but it will need some further improvements. Jack, can I make a new branch to work on that one? If I will get it to a point where you are pleased with it, you can merge it back into the master.

dantelecan avatar Jan 19 '14 10:01 dantelecan

Absolutely, fork away. My time for fbmessenger recently has been taken up by issue #45, so I'd love the help.

oconnor663 avatar Jan 19 '14 16:01 oconnor663

Great.

dantelecan avatar Jan 19 '14 18:01 dantelecan

The tray icon code has been merged from pull request #58. I don't see the icon on Ubuntu, though. It looks like installing sni-qt fixes the issue, so we might need to take a dependency on that. Can anyone else confirm this issue/fix?

oconnor663 avatar Feb 13 '14 22:02 oconnor663

@dantelecan, can you confirm that you have sni-qt installed, and that uninstalling it breaks the tray icon? The issue with the tray icon not getting the right image might be related to #59.

oconnor663 avatar Feb 13 '14 22:02 oconnor663

Hey, great. I can confirm tray icon works in Manjaro (Archlinux) linux without installing anything more.

uiii avatar Feb 13 '14 22:02 uiii

The next step is to show tray icon notifications (new message, ...).

uiii avatar Feb 13 '14 23:02 uiii

@oconnor663 Installing sni-qt did not fix the issue #59 for me on Kubuntu 14.04.

rohandhruva avatar Feb 14 '14 00:02 rohandhruva

Yes @rohandhruva, I wouldn't have expected sni-qt to help with your issue. It will only help people who don't see the tray icon at all, and maybe just on Unity.

oconnor663 avatar Feb 14 '14 00:02 oconnor663

@oconnor663, I already had sni-qt installed (I tested on a live cd mode inside VirtualBox). And yes, if I removed the sni-qt, the tray was not displayed anymore.

dantelecan avatar Feb 14 '14 07:02 dantelecan