Hi Scott, Thanks for pointing out these issues that I wasn't aware of. I guess the best is to add support for these events in libayatana-appindicator, then. I already filed a bug there, I'll try to make a PR when I find some time.
Best, Valentin On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 21:39 +1100, Scott Leggett wrote: > On 2019-01-04.13:36, Valentin Blot wrote: > > Current implementation of AppIndicator does not handle click events > > or > > modifiers. A middle click on the icon of pasystray is supposed to > > toggle mute, but this is not possible with the AppIndicator > > implementation. I filed a bug to AppIndicator but in the meantime > > it > > would be better to fallback to the GtkStatusIcon implementation, > > which > > is done with the attached patch. > > Hi Valentin, thanks for the bug report. > > Unfortunately this issue is not so simple to fix. > > I cannot switch back to GtkStatusIcon for the following reasons: > > * it has accessibility issues [0] > * it doesn't work in some modern desktop environments[1]; > AppIndicator > support is more widespread > * it is deprecated upstream [2] > > As I commented in the upstream bug report [3], I believe it is > possible > to handle middle-click using AppIndicators, but this is something > that > should be fixed upstream. > > I'm not sure how other click events and modifiers can be supported > using > AppIndicators. > > [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861387 > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827458 > [2] > https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkStatusIcon.html#GtkStatusIcon.description > [3] > https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray/issues/102#issuecomment-453489596 >
