Linux Riot tray icon interactivity issues

[BloodyIron]

I think this may be a feature regression in the last few months, because I recall it being the way I prefer in an earlier version.

I'm on Ubuntu, with XFCE4, and when I left or right click on the "systray" icon for Riot, both come up with the menu to open/quit.

I think the left click should just open/minimize it (depending on its state), and right click bring up the menu.

It's really annoying having to click on the pull-down menu to open it.

Small change, but would be really appreciated.

Please? :)

[lampholder]

If this is a change, this could be another unintended side-effect of the electron version bump. Unfortunately I think the systray icon lives in a bit of a blind spot for us - there's no automated testing on it, and I don't know if anyone on the team regularly uses electron on a linux machine with a systray :\

So - thanks for this report, and if anyone has any ideas how we can keep an automated eye on systray behaviour I'd love to hear about them :)

[banholzer]

I have the same issue and its quite annoying having to click multiple times to show/hide riot.

edit:
Perhaps it has to do with the "platform limitations" stated on https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/tray.md

But I still wonder why it had worked before.

Platform limitations:

On Linux the app indicator will be used if it is supported, otherwise GtkStatusIcon will be used instead.
On Linux distributions that only have app indicator support, you have to install libappindicator1 to make the tray icon work.
App indicator will only be shown when it has a context menu.
When app indicator is used on Linux, the click event is ignored.
On Linux in order for changes made to individual MenuItems to take effect, you have to call setContextMenu again. For example:

[BloodyIron]

Yeah it did use to just be left click to open/close, right click for menu. That worked plenty well for me!

[gerroon]

This is a harsh drag for the elderly users of Riot.

[BloodyIron]

still really annoying

[gerroon]

@BloodyIron, I need to vnc to my mom's computer and click on Riot in the tray properly for her so that I can talk to her, she cant do it as of now due to this bug. It is that bad :(, it is so sad :(

She cant call me as well due to this issue.

That one extra click makes such a big difference for elderly people, especially for those with vision issues.

[Pointedstick]

In KDE Plasma with Riot version 1.0.1 this now works as expected.

[BloodyIron]

Hmm just tried in XFCE with 1.0.1, still doing the menu thing.

[pacien]

Looks like a regression in Electron itself: electron/electron#16462, electron/electron#14941, electron/electron#13087.