Bug 428873

Summary: Option to minimize arbitrary applications to system tray
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Luca Allulli <l.allulli>
Component: System Tray widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: materka, nate, nick87720z, philippe.roubach, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
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Description Luca Allulli 2020-11-09 08:11:08 UTC 
This is a feature request. I would like to be able to show selected applications in the system tray, instead than as a task manager button, when minimized.

This behavior is very handy for daemon-like applications, where you use the GUI only upon notifications, such as Thunderbird, a running music player etc.

Currently this behavior can be achieved through third-party programs such as KDocker. However:

- KDocker and similar programs do not work on Wayland, and AFAIK cannot, due to protocol restrictions
- Plasmashell would be much easier and more flexible than KDocker for the user. User shall be able to:
  - right-click on the taskbar button, and "send application to System Tray"
  - define a rule for the application, so that it is automatically started in the system tray, etc.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-11-09 18:01:15 UTC 
*** Bug 332127 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-03-09 04:43:17 UTC 
Not sure how much enthusiasm there would be for such a thing... :)
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-11-30 04:25:25 UTC 
This isn't something I think we're interested in doing, sorry.
Comment 4 Luca Allulli 2022-11-30 08:36:22 UTC 
All right, thank you anyway :-)
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2024-04-09 14:48:13 UTC 
*** Bug 485261 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***