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Not having a tray is painful for Dropbox. #75

Closed cassidyjames closed 7 years ago

cassidyjames commented 7 years ago

Discussion: Do we stay with upstream or re-enable the hidden tray? —@sarahpandabeara

cassidyjames commented 7 years ago

I strongly recommend sticking with upstream GNOME on this one, as the "system tray" is an artifact from 15 years ago, and has been deprecated for several years. The only reason apps like Dropbox still use it is because distros have shipped backwards-compatible workarounds for a long-deprecated feature.

Dropbox needs to update to support the much-better cloud providers API in GNOME—and very likely will, either officially or in the form of a community solution. Other apps now have standard APIs for notifications, cloud providers, MPRIS, search providers, .desktop actions, etc. for platform integration. Allan Day, the chief GNOME designer, has written about their reasoning and I agree with it wholeheartedly.

If we do decide to continue shipping legacy tray support, we should at least do what Ubuntu is doing, which is including an appindicator extension.

WatchMkr commented 7 years ago

Is there an extension to add the bottom left tray functionality? In case customers need the crutch before upstream pushes changes and they prefer that functionality to Topicons.

jackpot51 commented 7 years ago

Not that I have seen @WatchMkr

cassidyjames commented 7 years ago

@WatchMkr Ubuntu is shipping their appindicator extension which would probably be what I'd recommend they install if they want a compatibility layer for now.

cassidyjames commented 7 years ago

@WatchMkr what do we want to do here: up-up-stream (GNOME) without a tray, or up-stream (Ubuntu) with their appindicator extension?

WatchMkr commented 7 years ago

Up-up-stream GNOME. Write an app indicators doc to point users to.

jackpot51 commented 7 years ago

So, gnome-shell-extension-appindicator works well enough. I have been testing it some. This is what I would recommend users install, with sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator. They can enable it with https://extensions.gnome.org, gnome-shell-extension-prefs, or gnome-tweak-tool

cassidyjames commented 7 years ago

Done in https://github.com/system76/pop-docs/commit/ee2b293e4be2861952ef957eea979609accbd2a1

Live at http://pop.system76.com/docs/status-icons/

BenMorel commented 4 years ago

Link is dead 😕 http://pop.system76.com/docs/status-icons/

leviport commented 4 years ago

Looks like some stuff got rearranged since that link was shared. Here's where that article lives now: https://support.system76.com/articles/status-icons/

BenMorel commented 4 years ago

Thank you! A 301 redirect would have been nice.