Copyq: option to switch mouse buttons for tray icon

[deathtrip]

Opening dropdown menu with left click, and opening window with the right.
Basically the oposite of what is the default now, as some people might find it more convenient that way.

[hluk]

That seems strange to me. I don't know any app that does this. Why is that more convenient?

[deathtrip]

On linux KDE, all system icons are opened with a left click. While the right click gives a context menu to change the widget settings etc.

[hluk]

Qt GUI framework doesn't directly support the new tray area used by KDE, Unity and others.

KDE developers are the first to properly implement new tray for Qt (there is also sni-qt but only for Qt4 and it doesn't work that well).

Since it's currently KDE implementation, it's probably up to them to swap the mouse button behavior. (Note: I don't check whether left or right button was pressed when user clicks the tray icon.)

[sudhirkhanger]

This would be a very good addition. KDE, GNOME, Ubuntu, etc. are all moving away from system tray icons having left and right click options. That way users don't have to worry about what functionality belongs to left-click and what belongs to right-click. AFAIK libappindicator protocol used by Ubuntu and KStatusNotifierItems in KDE all advice single-left-click for further options.

[gbcox]

If we're talking about the tray area (both xembed - kde4 and libappindicator - kde5) it appears to me that copyq is working exactly as it it suppose to work. I don't see any difference between it and other apps in the tray area. As @sudhirkhanger mentioned libappindicator (which is the new method replacing xembed) changed the meaning of right vs. left so everything is standardized. People may be getting confused between the behavior in xembed and system notifier (libappindicator).

[sudhirkhanger]

@gbcox libappindicator is a gtk+ support library based off KDE's KStatusNotifierItems. GNOME design doesn't advocate use of system tray. Basically, the whole of Linux UI is moving towards a consistent left-click-only paradigm.

[gbcox]

@sudhirkhanger yes, I understand that... which is why I used the term "tray area" rather than "system tray".

[syserss]

I'd appreciate adding this function back into CopyQ. It had it previously and I rarely use the CopyQ window. Everything that I typically need to do I can get from the tray menu. I would highly appreciate if you brought the option back for those that would prefer. Quite frankly I appreciate apps that give me the option of making it how I want and tend to drop those that make me conform to their approach.

If you are unwilling to make it a documented feature, Would you at least be willing to share how we could modify it ourselves to achieve the same. As I mentioned before, switching the default behavior used to be an option.

[hluk]

@syserss The option to change the mouse button for opening tray menu has never been implemented before.

Since this is somewhat popular issue I've implemented the option but it's not accessible from configuration dialog since it only works on Windows and few desktop environments on Linux. So to enable the option you have to open config file ~/.config/copyq/copyq.config and add tray_menu_open_on_left_click=true under [Options] section.

(This will be available in whatever version comes after 2.7.1.)

[sudhirkhanger]

@hluk Thank you for making our lives much more easier :).

@gbcox Any plans if we will see this patch before next release of CopyQ in Fedora?

[gbcox]

@sudhirkhanger Sure... I'll take a look.

[gbcox]

I've opened: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359526
I currently have an update in bodhi to fix copyq translations. I'll stage this one after it gets pushed to updates. If you want to speed things up, please leave karma.

I actually like the current way it works... after this patch basically both the left and right key do the same thing - but to each his own.

[sudhirkhanger]

@gbcox I don't see any recent copyq package in bodhi. The latest one is copyq-2.7.1-2.fc24 (the translation one).

[gbcox]

@sudhirkhanger yes, but it is awaiting karma. Otherwise I have to wait 7 days before I can push to updates. This one needs to go first.

[sudhirkhanger]

Oh! okay updated and gave the karma to copyq-2.7.1-2.fc24. Thanks again.

[gbcox]

Yes, the F24 update for the translation fix has been autopushed - and I just submitted this build for testing. It could take days however (you know how bodhi can be) so if you don't want to wait, you can get it here from koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=785247

Whenever it finally gets on bodhi, please leave karma so it gets pushed to updates.

Thanks!