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Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back
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[cosmetic] Suggestions for tray icon #1645

Open noyannus opened 4 months ago

noyannus commented 4 months ago

Currently the tray icon only appears when a backup is running, and its popup give information about that backup only.

It would be nice to have permanent icon (or an option when to display it) that, when clicked, displays info about the status of all profiles: last backup and its success status, or simply a list of the most recent 5..10 backups with an icon to indicate status. Also it could show a badge whenever a backup failed, as an early warning if something starts going wrong.

aryoda commented 4 months ago

Thanks a lot for your feature request. I think this (at least partly) a duplicate of #1370 and the idea of indicating errors more prominently is intriguing.

Since #1592 requires an overhaul of the systray icon logic (root cannot show a systray icon for another user) it is "overdue" to implement this (after our Qt6 migration). It is on my TODO list.

buhtz commented 4 months ago

Yes, thanks for this report.

I would like to throw another Issue into the pit. #1018 is a feature request of my own (from 2019). It is about given a status report about all existing snapshot profiles: Timestamp of last run, with or without errors, etc. And all this in a machine readable format (e.g. JSON).

I wasn't sure where to use this information but would like to start with a simple JSON output and then see what is coming. I a persistent BIT systray icon is a good place to use such kind of information.

I would keep this Issue open and treat it as a feature request about having a "status of all profiles" accessible via the systray icon.