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Hi to all,
This is my first post to this list as I very recently started
using geary.
As far as I can remember, Unity doesn't display status icons by
default, they have to be white-listed in order to appear in the
system tray.
Since Unity does have a messaging menu, I think that default
behaviour would be appropriate.
The issue here comes with desktops that don't have a dock or
messaging menu, at least by default, and if I'm not mistaken that
would mean at least KDE, XFCE, LXDE, MATE and Cinnamon (as well as
some other less commonly used ones).
I happen to be a Cinnamon developer, and I have to say that the
absence of a systray for geary is kind of a deal-breaker for me,
as it prevents from properly running geary in the background.
I fully agree with the fact that the implementation of a systray
is pointless as far as GNOME users are concerned, and I can
understand that, geary being focused on gnome-shell, this is
necessarily low priority or even arguable.
However, implementing a systray would be a simple job, wouldn't
have any downsides for GNOME users, and would considerably improve
the user experience for those using one the desktops I mentioned.
I would be willing to implement it myself, provided that it
wouldn't be rejected on the basis of it not being useful for GNOME
users.
Just a few thoughts from a non-GNOME user.
Regards,
Gwendal Le Bihan
On 01/09/2014 08:31 PM, Jim Nelson wrote:
I see. What you're asking for is sometimes called minimizing to
the system tray.
From my perspective, as a GNOME Shell user, this isn't
terribly interesting. I'd be curious how GtkStatusIcon works
under Unity (does the icon appear in the top bar, or where?).
But even that's suspect because Geary is available via the
Messaging Menu, where it can notify the user of new mail.
What I'm trying to avoid here is having Geary icons all over
the screen -- in the dock, in the messaging menu, in the system
tray.
It occurs to me, though, that this might be useful if Geary
were to launch at startup:
In this situation, the user is running Geary "in the
background" with no window visible on the desktop. That would
be a good situation to use a system tray. I'll add a note to
that ticket.
-- Jim
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:53 AM, ZAKASOA Mirado
<meradoou outlook com> wrote:
Hi,
if Geary supports systemtray, this will make it work
in the background.
For now, I use chromium to read my mails (with
extensions for notifications) and to get a support
systemtray.
Thanks
Le jeu. 9 janv. 2014 at 0:39, Jim Nelson
<jim yorba org> a écrit :
I did a little digging and I think I see a more
general solution to this. GtkStatusIcon follows the
freedesktop.org system tray specification, which KDE
supports as well. So, this gives us a portable
solution.
The next question is, what would Geary offer in
the system tray? If the only function of the
systray icon is to bring Geary to the top of
display, I feel that the various desktops' docks do
that just fine. Is there something else we should
be offering? I can't think of anything.
-- Jim
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:03 AM, ZAKASOA Mirado
<meradoou outlook com> wrote:
Sincerly, I'm a single user and I don't know how
it works. But I found api documentations of KDE
on these links:
Gnote is an example of a gnome application
with systemtray support on kde. You can fin
source code on:
Thank you
Le ven. 3 janv. 2014 at 22:37, Jim Nelson
<jim yorba org> a écrit :
Since Geary is a GNOME
app, our primary concern is integration with
the GNOME desktop.
However, this is something we could
conceivably support, depending on how it
works. Can you point us to an API or
documentation on this feature?
-- Jim
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:43 PM, ZAKASOA
Mirado <meradoou outlook com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
There are no way to put geary on
systray with KDE 4 ? This app runs
correctly with KDE but the only
problem is that you can't reduce it on
systray.
Thanks
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