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AlynxZhou / showmethekey

Show keys you typed on screen.
https://showmethekey.alynx.one/
Apache License 2.0
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Close to tray #14

Closed Ashark closed 1 year ago

Ashark commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the project! Unfortunately, it currently has not yet similar possibilities with screenkey. Would you like to add close to tray function? So the app window will not be shown in the taskbar.

AlynxZhou commented 1 year ago

No, because I use GNOME and GNOME does not have a tray 😸.

Seriously, "Close to Tray" is something really strange to me, I mean when you click "Close", you do not want really "Close", but "Minimize to Tray and Keep Running"? I just dislike this, when I click "Close" I just really want to close it.

If you don't use it, I suggest to put it aside, or put it into another workspace. Being a screenkey alternative does not mean behaving the same as it. I'm sorry but I really dislike tray icon.

Ashark commented 1 year ago

No no no, close to tray is a must for some applications. These applications are meant to be working in background. Take for example obs. When you record some lesson, you do not want obs window to be in your taskbar, or even on another desktop. But still you want to see its status (recording or not icon in tray) and quick access to start/stop recording. I understand that gnome has different concept. And not having tray is a miss as I consider it. But anyway, thanks for the project. I hope maybe kdocker could support wayland and kde users could workaround this problem or qt analog appear.

AlynxZhou commented 1 year ago

No no no, close to tray is a must for some applications.

Not a "must for" for me.

These applications are meant to be working in background. Take for example obs.

I just put obs window aside and never minimize it...

you do not want obs window to be in your taskbar, or even on another desktop. But still you want to see its status (recording or not icon in tray) and quick access to start/stop recording.

You mean you don't want an icon on taskbar, but you can accept an icon on tray? You could always check this app's state from its main window, even if you minimized the main window, the floating window is always telling that it's working.

Yeah when starting to use desktop most of us accepted it should have a taskbar and a tray (maybe from Windows or others, AFAIK macOS has a tray, too), but I think they should be merged into one thing.

Though I am really not interested in "Minimize to tray", if someone wants it, they can try to implement it by themselves and sends a PR, I'll accept it. But please keep it disabled by default with an option, thanks 😸