status area missing icons

squalou commented 1 week ago

Hi,

I think this belongs to 'status-area' applet but I may be wrong.

It is about what used to be called "systray", "system tray", which requires extensions in gnome to work 'KStatusNotifierItem for instance)... I hope you see what I mean.

My issue is, I have some applications that do not show their icons, some do not show at all, some do work great, (and finally some electron ones refuse to update their icons at runtime but that's another story, electron being... electron)

Examples I have

Tuxedo Control Center (from tuxedo computers, one of my hardwares) : there is a space in the area, I can click on it, it does not always popup its menu, and its icon is never shown.
Synology Drive : no icon, no space for it.
an example working great : opensnitch

Another weird thing I noticed in this area is "another" network manager icon (with a non themed icon), that provides access to my network configuration, on top of the network applet. Is this expected ?

(and by the way network applet misses lots of things such as VPN connexions, which are accessible through the systray icon one so maybe these two are related)

Thanks for reading this feedback, I hope it may help somehow.

regards

git-f0x commented 1 week ago

Already tracked in #380. Though you could maybe add more examples of apps with issues there. The other network icon is nm-applet appearing in the tray because it has NotShowIn=KDE;GNOME; in its desktop entry, so it shows up in COSMIC.

squalou commented 1 week ago

Thanks for the info ! closing and having a look there.

BTW : nm-applet is pretty useful in fact, as at the moment it is more complete than native cosmic network applet. (example : I can switch on/off my vpn from nm-applet), so all in all it's a nice workaround, on purpose or not.

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status area missing icons #518