Add ability to set any tray as "disabled".
Which icons are you unable to set to disabled that you would like to disable? Please explain the issue rather than proposing a solution.
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(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Which icons are you unable to set to disabled that you would like to > disable? Please explain the issue rather than proposing a solution. I can't set applications tray icons as disabled https://imgur.com/a/tksBVSH
Aha, I see it now. So we don't offer a "disabled" option for tray icons that come from apps because we can't know whether the apps would be broken by you disabling their system tray icons. Some apps might display *only* a tray icon as a visible UI, and if it was gone, you'd have no UGI method of determining if it was running. Perhaps we could warn you about this though, and tell you that hiding apps' tray icons is done at your own risk. Because, yeah, it's really annoying when you have an app that doesn't offer an internal method to disable its tray icon.
*** Bug 497665 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> So we don't offer a "disabled" option for tray icons that come from apps > because we can't know whether the apps would be broken by you disabling > their system tray icons. Some apps might display *only* a tray icon as a > visible UI, and if it was gone, you'd have no UGI method of determining if > it was running. > > Perhaps we could warn you about this though, and tell you that hiding apps' > tray icons is done at your own risk. Because, yeah, it's really annoying > when you have an app that doesn't offer an internal method to disable its > tray icon. Thanks for the perscpective! I was sure there was a reason I couldn't find it anywhere. If you permit my two cents, my use case for this bug is a little more specific. I have multiple screens with multiple instances of the system tray widget. It would be nice to be able to set it disabled on one off them and while keeping enabled on the other. Maybe the option could confirm that there is at least an instance of system tray where the icon is present and prevent the removal (or message about the problem) only in the last one. I have no idea on the work it presents but this is my perspective as an user, hope it helps.
We could make a "Disable" option for app-provided tray icons simply hide it on the tray widget being configured, yeah.
Yes, please! I am also all for this "Disable"-Option! ... to de-clutter the menu from icons of third party apps.
If the user realizes, that this icon was his only way to interact with the app ... he can always go back and enable it again. ... The only necessary warning would IMO be: "If you disable this entry, you might not be able to interact with the app. In this case just re-enable it!"
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5283
(In reply to Bug Janitor Service from comment #11) > A possibly relevant merge request was started @ > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5283 Oh, Nate Graham, this is so beautiful! ... Thank you very much! .. :-)
You're very welcome! It's something I've wanted for years.
Git commit 13a2b93ec46bc529e5f95cadd58e2b359626dcd3 by Nate Graham. Committed on 14/03/2025 at 14:42. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. applets/systemtray: allow fully disabling app SNIs Some people don't like app-provided SNIs, but some apps don't offer an option internally to disable their SNI. This is annoying. As such, offer the option to hide app-provided SNIs from the System Tray. When the user does this, a message will be shown warning them that it's at their own risk since it could break the app. Implementation-wise, the cleanest way I found was to save the list of disabled SNIs in a new config file key, rather than adding them to the existing extraItems key; extraItems was designed to only hold plasmoid IDs, and re-engineering it to accept SNI IDs as well ended up being much more complex and fragile. Related: bug 470798 FIXED-IN: 6.4.0 M +4 -0 applets/systemtray/package/contents/config/main.xml M +55 -20 applets/systemtray/package/contents/ui/ConfigEntries.qml M +2 -1 applets/systemtray/systemtraymodel.cpp M +7 -0 applets/systemtray/systemtraysettings.cpp M +3 -0 applets/systemtray/systemtraysettings.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/13a2b93ec46bc529e5f95cadd58e2b359626dcd3