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Add system tray support #886

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@rand0x0m rand0x0m commented Apr 11, 2019

This is more like a blueprint. It is not ready to merge. Decisions about the system tray image should be taken. And package.json should be changed accordingly. I built it for personal use and it works fine with some custom icons.

It would be nice to save user preference on 'light' or 'dark' icon on exit. A design decision should be taken here.

Lastly, shutdown hook needs to be checked again.

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akobabkov commented May 5, 2019

Hi! I've done this kind of thing before. I unfortunately this feature, and not finished. Your version looks cool! But will it run on OS Windows?

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Sorry for the delay in reviewing this. I have dropped some comments/questions. Please let me know what you think.

"pack": "gulp build && build --dir",
"dist": "gulp build && build -mwl --x64"
"pack": "electron-builder --dir",
"dist": "electron-builder"
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could you explain the reason for this change? Why are we now running the command this way?

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what is the reason for removing the build config?

@@ -118,11 +162,12 @@ app.setAppUserModelId('com.ifedapoolarewaju.desktop.igdm')

app.on('ready', () => {
createWindow();
createTray();
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this functionality should probably only apply to a windows machine


mainWindow.on('minimize', function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
mainWindow.hide();
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this functionality should probably only apply to a windows machine. Also, what is the difference between "minimize" and "hide"? 🤔

@@ -45,7 +48,19 @@ function createWindow () {
}))
})

mainWindow.on('closed', () => mainWindow = null)
mainWindow.on('close', function (event) {
if (!app.isQuiting) {
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I think we can just use this clause instead, or not?

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@ifedapoolarewaju Hello, please mind that this is just a sketchy pull request and it could had been an enhancement request with some code. I've only tested it on debian stable (i3-gaps latest, polybar latest) and it works fine. I did some modifications to package.json for my own testing purposes (more specifically I had issues with gulp and hence I tried to avoid it) and I also removed some targets from the building process in order to speed up my tests. Of course master's configs won't need any change on an upcoming merge.

I also added this dependency "electron-json-config" (yes I know that adding a dependency just for 2 lines of code hurts but I may be useful later, although it depends on the design and the features it wants to provide) to save the color of the icon the user had before exiting, cause I didn't want to mess with cookies. I'm pretty sure the pro version uses something similar for the dark theme.

If you are into the idea, please let me know, so that I can remove any conflicts from the configs. But you have to take some decisions : 1) Which icons will be used for the notification tray (I used the ones that where shipped with the app but iirc I did some simple conversions and transformations on them)? 2) How user's preferences will be retrieved?

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@rand0x0m so this tray support applies to windows and linux systems?

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@ifedapoolarewaju Yes it does. Sorry for the late reply but I've been really busy lately.

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Isn't the tray thing slowly passing out? 🤔

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