Signal-desktop: Use tray icon by default
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Bug description
Right now, the tray icon is not default and one must start Signal with --start-in-tray or --use-tray-icon. Instead, I would suggest having --use-tray-icon be the default and --start-in-tray be a configuration option.
Steps to reproduce
- Start Signal-Desktop.
- Notice that there is no tray icon (and unless you read the changelog, you wouldn't know it even exists, since
--help, and-hdon't do anything when it comes to Signal).
Actual result:
No tray icon.
Expected result:
Tray icon appears.
Platform info
Signal version:
Signal v1.1.0.
Operating System:
Debian GNU/Linux x86_64 sid/experimental, kernel 4.14.12.
Linked device version:
Signal 4.14.10 (Android 7.0, Samsung Galaxy S7).
chiraag-nataraj
All 10 comments
This is because it's still in testing. Thanks for your vote of confidence. I'm going to close this.
scottnonnenberg
on 11 Jan 2018
Hi @scottnonnenberg, any new insights on this topic? Thank you.
chikamichi
on 4 Aug 2018
I am having the same experience as OP--I typically resort to --help or man if I can't find documentation/wiki online and failing that, I was surprised there's no notification tray so I googled until I came across this issue. With the nature of this app and the lack of --help, the default should be a tray icon.
I'm currently going through the changelogs to figure out what other features I may be missing out on.
rieje
on 28 May 2019
Is it time to turn this on yet?
endolith
on 14 Nov 2019
Also wondering if this can be turned on as it's been almost a year
fkumro
on 21 Dec 2019
10th of march 2020, do we have an ETA?
Plarpoon
on 10 Mar 2020
This issue is still tracked here: #2210
TobiasWenzel
on 26 Mar 2020
agreed. I thought there was a problem with my system tray
codywohlers
on 15 Jul 2020
Welcome to 2021. Still no default tray support. :(
daveseff
on 10 Jan 2021
With the recent WhatsApp debacle and Signal's obscene increase in popularity it's time to make this the default.
This is what's usually expected, and a lot of people trying out Signal vs Telegram are going to notice the lack of tray and of the configuration option and weigh it negatively, as I almost did!
AgustinLado
on 18 Jan 2021
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Most helpful comment
With the recent WhatsApp debacle and Signal's obscene increase in popularity it's time to make this the default.
This is what's usually expected, and a lot of people trying out Signal vs Telegram are going to notice the lack of tray and of the configuration option and weigh it negatively, as I almost did!