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Allow to disable the tray icon on platforms that don't know the concept #2213

Open SISheogorath opened 3 years ago

SISheogorath commented 3 years ago

What would you like to be added: Ability to disable the tray icon and with that the run in background functionality. By either using a CLI flag or a setting in preferences. (Automatically would be even greater but is, as far as I know, not possible in a meaningful way in electron.)

Why is this needed: The desktop environment of GNOME 3 removed the concept of tray icons. Therefore a tray icon can never show up.

Environment you are Lens application on:

Nokel81 commented 3 years ago

For some more information, if the Tray icon doesn't show up. What does Lens do when you close the window? (Since iirc on linux there isn't normally process persistence when the UI closes).

SISheogorath commented 3 years ago

Currently it remains running, since electron successfully registers the tray icon, even when it never shows up, resulting in lens running in background with no indicator for that.

defenestration commented 3 years ago

I would also like the option to be able to just disable the tray icon, even for OS that do support it (macos here).

dparker18 commented 3 years ago

I would also like the option to be able to just disable the tray icon, even for OS that do support it (macos here).

Agreed. For me the forced tray icon when closing the app is clutter and mildly obnoxious.