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guysoft / backupfriend-client

Backupfriend wx widgets client
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Make wx.adv.TaskBarIcon not the only option, or at least not default #8

Closed guysoft closed 3 years ago

guysoft commented 3 years ago

Getting reports that the icon is sitting in a strange way on OSX, and that it does not appear at all on GNOME desktop running Pop!_OS.

This is strange, that is GNOME desktop, and wxpython uses gtk. It says so here too: https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/wx.adv.TaskBarIcon.html

What we could do is have an option to "minimize to systray" and now have that on the first boot.

gabay commented 3 years ago

The problem on my machine is caused by Gnome3 not accepting taskbar icons by default To fix - the user must install this tray icons gnome extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1503/tray-icons/

We can check if the taskbar is available using wx.adv.TaskBarIcon.IsAvailable() (On my machine, it returns True/False when the extension is enabled/disabled, respectively)

guysoft commented 3 years ago

Ok, it seems like making a dialog pop up testing wx.adv.TaskBarIcon.IsAvailable() and stating if its missing is a good current solution.

guysoft commented 3 years ago

Tested and works on Mac Windows and Linux