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thunderbird / linux-sys-tray

Thunderbird system tray icon for KDE and Ubuntu GNOME
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Lack of docs #2

Open tomchiverton opened 4 months ago

tomchiverton commented 4 months ago

This repo was linked from https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-may-2024/ as "run them locally" but there are no docs, and the front page is just a giant dump of legal jargon.

V10lator commented 3 months ago

Building is as simple as this it seems:

git clone https://github.com/thunderbird/linux-sys-tray.git
cd linux-sys-tray/
cargo build

This gives me a target/debug/linux-sys-tray executable. Running this executable indeed adds a tray icon but the only option this icon has is to exit and I can't find any way to minimize Thunderbird to that.

Zorrototo commented 2 weeks ago

I wish they would work on it as an important feature. I always need to unlock Thunderbird with password when I start it, because I close all applications by habit when I finish what I do in them, but for Thunderbird I wish it could stay in background in a tray icon that I could click to bring back Thunderbird on foreground without the need to unlock the password manager again.

//EDIT: as of today, it builds, when you run it you have an invisible icon, with only an Exit feature when right clicking it.

Alecaddd commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the report, we will add some simple docs to show the easy steps to build. Minimizing to tray and all other expected features related to a system tray will happen moving forward, but it takes time. This is just the beginning. Thanks for your patience and support.