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mijorus / smile

An emoji picker for linux, with custom tags support and localization. I'll also put some random emojis here 🦁🐾🦔🦇
https://mijorus.it/projects/smile
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Tray support #14

Closed alexanderadam closed 2 years ago

alexanderadam commented 2 years ago

It would be great to have the option to keep smile in the tray and open the dialogue by clicking on it.

proninyaroslav commented 2 years ago

I think libappindicator would be the ideal option which is supported by all systems at the moment (and GNOME if you install a special extension).

mijorus commented 2 years ago

After digging in the GTK documentation a little bit, it seems that bringing back the appindicator support in newer versions of gtk is not an easy task.

As I am targeting flatpak, is not as easy as declaring a dependency that you can install with a terminal command. At the end, app indicators are discontinued (by default) in both GNOME and Elementary. They are clearly saying "do not use them".

Why should I bring it back? I am sorry, but tray support is not coming to Smile.