Franz: Infinite system tray icon in ubuntu

[amir1376irani]

Description of bug
opening many system tray icon instead of just one!

To reproduce

1. Open Franz
2. Go to File -> Setting
3. Open Setting tab.
4. Under General section you see Show Franz in system tray
5. change it several times

Expected behaviour
To have only one system tray icon when activating it

What really happens
It will add an icon every time you activate but will not remove it when deactivated

Screen shot

Desktop

• OS: ubuntu 18.04
• Franz: 5.0.1

Additional info
Only last created icon works (can show Franz or make it exit)

[vishnureddy17]

This issue seems to affect many Electron applications running on Linux with GNOME. A temporary workaround for GNOME users is to press 'alt+F2' and then enter 'r' to restart GNOME.
See https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/17622

[amir1376irani]

I'm aware of that, but isn't there a way to have consistency for that tray.destroy even on GNOME and KDE desktops?
By the way thanks for referencing this issue there, they may make more progress by checking this too.

[vishnureddy17]

I'm not sure, since I don't have much expertise with Electron and/or GNOME and KDE.

[chfanghr]

No progress. Instead of using tray in electron, I tried using kde’s tray service directly via D-Bus, destroying the process which holds the tray every time I need to update the tray, and , fortunately it works, though this solution make change of tray not smooth at all, you will see the tray blinking . Actually, this bug is not caused by desktop itself.

Refer this question https://stackoverflow.com/q/23458215/8618856

[chfanghr]

It seems that I found a bug in tray implementation.

https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/e7c48922e77b0043f2d829b4e8c44c0d2b45d500/atom/browser/ui/tray_icon_gtk.cc#L20

When JavaScript api is called , the call will pass to this function to do the exact job , but as you can see, it just create a new tray without destroying the previous one , which may cause the issue.

[rrhythmsharma]

@chfanghr brilliant job, did you try to fix this?

[chfanghr]

I don’t know how to, because I cannot find the _icon variable . Perhaps it’s generated on runtime in linux_ui/... ??? I can not even find the header. That’s quite confusing . I am not familiar with electron’s build system indeed.

[rrhythmsharma]

me too, I tried to solve it but I didn't understand it correctly, though we can inform electron community core developer they can figure it out something

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