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aprilis / messenger

Unofficial Facebook Messenger app for elementary OS
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Don't say that Messenger is not running, but run it instead #13

Closed Philip-Scott closed 7 years ago

Philip-Scott commented 7 years ago

Like the title says :)

If you can start the popover with just the loading message, it would be a way better UX

aprilis commented 7 years ago

I really don't like the idea of this dialog, but I can't find a better solution. The problem is that when I run the app after activation from a chat icon, Plank associates any window opened by this process with that icon. It brings many problems, for instance when the main app window is opened and you click the chat icon, you can't view a chat bubble but Plank shows/hides the main window instead. You can test it by commenting the fake = true; line in file Main.vala. If you know any better workaround for this problem that would be great.

Philip-Scott commented 7 years ago

Try using Granite Application and filling in the results. Or maybe replace the dialog with a comand that launches the messenger process, and then ends. That way the main process would launch from outside of plank :)

Here's an example to the application class: https://github.com/Philip-Scott/Spice-up/blob/master/src/Application.vala#L42

aprilis commented 7 years ago

I've managed to make a workaround using additional script which opens the app and then ends. Thanks!