Feature Proposal: KDE Plasma minimize to tray
Categories
(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: d1nuc0m, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0
Steps to reproduce:
Using Mozilla Thunderbird 78.10.0 on Artix Linux (5.10.32-1-lts Kernel, Plasma 5.21.4 Desktop Environment, KWin Window Manager).
Actual results:
It is possible to minimize Thunderbird to the taskbar and keep it running, but it is not possible to minimize it to system tray. Closing the window effectively closes Thunderbird, there is not a way to have it running in background and at the same time not in the taskbar.
Expected results:
Feature proposal: introduce the possibility to minimize Thunderbird to system tray, so that minimizing the window leaves it in the taskbar, while closing the window leaves Thunderbird running in background (with notifications etc) and an icon in the system tray.
Just to give an example, a UI behavior like Telegram Desktop on KDE Plasma.
Despite the fact that GNOME officially removed support the system tray, Canonical maintains an extension that enables that by default on Ubuntu.
I think there are many users who would support the idea of a system tray icon for Thunderbird, even (or especially...) under GNOME.
Currently, in order to keep receiving email notifications, Thunderbird's window must be kept visible, often distracting the user. Even if the window is placed in a different workspace, it gets in the way when Alt+Tab'ing to switch application.
Looks like a duplicate of bug 1627479 to me. "Close to tray" is at least part of the discussion (bug 1627479 comment 3).
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Comment 3•3 years ago
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(In reply to fe_60 from comment #2)
Looks like a duplicate of bug 1627479 to me. "Close to tray" is at least part of the discussion (bug 1627479 comment 3).
+1. Thanks.
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