left-click on libappindicator indicators

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 15:25:19 UTC 2016


On Monday 21 March 2016 15:10:17 Raman Gupta wrote:
> Currently (or at least as of Plasma 5.5.5 on my Fedora 23 machine),
> left-click on libappindicator-based indicator's in the plasma system
> tray does.... absolutely nothing.
> 
> An example of this indicator is pidgin with the pidgin-indicator
> plugin (https://github.com/philipl/pidgin-indicator).
> 
> On Ubuntu Unity, both left and right-click apparently open the
> indicator menu. Personally I am not fond of this behaviour, but it is
> better than doing nothing.
> 
> I would prefer if Plasma could detect whether a tray icon provides a
> window, and if so, Plasma did application show/hide when tray icons
> are left-clicked. Essentially a minimize to tray/restore from tray
> function. Thoughts?

that is the behavior of our client side implementation.
What i am not sure is that since libappindicator didn't want that behavior, it 
maybe doesn't export the window id?

-- 
Marco Martin


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