Cant open zeal from tray.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

This is a blocker. I forgot my hotkey. Zeal is inaccessible.

Archlinux, zeal-git 0.2.1.10.g57185b4-1, cinnamon

[trollixx]

What's your desktop environment? AppIndicator menu has a Show/Hide item (since 0.2.0). And a tray icon is expected to support single mouse clicks. As a quick solution take a peek in `~/.config/Zeal/Zeal.conf`.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Cinnamon 2.8.6-1. I checked this. The hotkey doesn't work either, but thats an other issue.

[trollixx]

Interesting. I'll need to install Cinnamon, and check. It's unclear whether it is a tray icon or indicator. Do you have `sni-qt` or `sni-qt5` package installed?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Do you have sni-qt or sni-qt5 package installed?

No. I just installed sni-qt but nothing changes. However pacman description says its a qt4 plugin. sni-qt5 is not available in the official repos.

Maybe this is of interest. I know nothing about tray icons and indicators, but somehow regarding user experience there are two categoreies of tray icons: The first opens the app on leftclick, rightclick opens a context menu. The second opens the context menu on left click, right-click opens the context menu of the cinnamon systray applet, wich contains the systray icons. Zeal and Telegram behave like the latter.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Additional things that may be helpful:

• Zeal and Telegram are both qt5. Goldendict (qt4) is of the first group.
• This SO answer

[trollixx]

Looks like the problem is Cinnamon specific: linuxmint/cinnamon#4946 One of the comments mentions that it's possible to disable indicators (icons which show menu on left click) via “System Settings” -> “General” -> “Enable support for indicators”. I need to figure out whether Cinnamon is compatible with Unity's indicators. If so, a detection of Cinnamon in Zeal will fix the actual problem.

[trollixx]

I've got Cinnamon 2.8.6 on Mint 17.3, and I cannot reproduce this. Zeal is always using tray icon, so I can do a left click to show and hide it. I am not sure how to make it an indicator...

[trollixx]

@ManuelSchneid3r, please verify that the problem is fixed for you.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

With support for indicators

Without support for indicators

zeal-git 0.2.1.44.ga96c79b-1

[trollixx]

Hm, I it's definitely not using indicator API. What are values of XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP and CINNAMON_VERSION environment variables?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=X-Cinnamon
CINNAMON_VERSION=2.8.6

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Just debugged it. USE_APPINDICATOR is somehow not set, detectAppIndicatorSupport not executed.

[trollixx]

Wait, you are using zeal-git from AUR, right? Install libappindicator-gtk2
[0], and then rebuild Zeal.

1. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libappindicator-gtk2/

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Okay eventually it works. libappindicator should be at least a optinal dep in the PKGBUILD. Furthermore somehow I encoutered moments where CINNAMON_VERSION was not set.

From the user experience point of view, I find this indicator annoying. The old style "toggle visibility on left click, context on right-click" was much more convenient.

Thank You

[trollixx]

Yeah, UX is terrible. I don't know why everyone is switching to indicators. I will add an optional dependency to the AUR package. With the switch to Qt 5.5 (once Ubuntu 16.04 is out), I am going to remove all custom handling for different kinds of system trays. What you experienced initially is exactly that - QSystemTrayIcon with D-Bus backend. Unfortunately, I don't see an API to tell what backend is being used do I can add hide/show entry in case of it's an indicator.

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