1918035 - want pref for showing/hiding system tray icon

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

We should add a pref to hide/show the system tray icon.

For windows we have minimize-to-tray-label - https://searchfox.org/comm-central/search?q=minimize-to-tray-label&path=&case=true&regexp=false
The behavior on linux should probably be the same and use this same setting. That is, don't show the icon when Thunderbird is maximized.

Comment 1

[Francesco]

You mean "add UI for the existing prefs mail.biff.show_tray_icon and mail.minimizeToTray"?

Comment 2

[Anje]

Are you talking about this which is already in version 115.15.0 and beta 131.0b5

• Settings > General
  

• Scroll down to 'Incoming Mails' section
  

• uncheck - 'Show a tray icon for unread messages'
  

• Then restart Thunderbird for it to effect.
  

OR

• In Config Editor:
• mail.biff.show_tray_icon
• set to 'false' to switch it off

I find that option displays icon or not in Tray.

The main reason for the person at that link asking for help to switch it all off is because two identical icons each for a different profile is not helpful.
I run two versions of TB on different profiles, it's easy for me to see which is which because one is a 'beta' version actually says 'Beta' on icon, but you can understand how difficult it would be if you have two different profiles both running off a release version.
How do you which system tray icon is for which profile ?

Comment 3

[Eugene Savitsky]

Attachment: no setting for tray icon

I'm on TB 131b6 and I do not have such a setting.
openSUSE Tumbleweed, if it matters.

Comment 4

[Francesco]

On Windows, there is an button: "Change preferences for the app icon [App Icon Options]". Maybe that should also be enabled for Linux.