Dominique Dumont posted on Sun, 05 May 2024 18:17:54 +0200 as excerpted: > While investigating compilation warnings, I've learnt that StatusIcon > are deprecated [1], so I've removed this feature from pan [2]. > > Actually, I could not see any difference in Pan bevahior after this > removal. > > Please get back to me if you see a problem.
So I run pan on wayland now and haven't had this set for awhile as AFAIK the standard was X-specific and the gtk folks saw no continued use for it so there's no similar XDG/wayland standard. There's still a notification tray in kde/plasma 5/6 running on wayland but it seems to be kde/plasma or possibly qt specific; no non-kde/plasma apps appear to use it. (IIRC vlc's qt5 front-end did with the appropriate option turned on, but I switched to another video player when I upgraded to kde/plasma/qt6 as there wasn't a qt6-based vlc available yet and I wanted to be rid of qt5, so I can no longer verify that.) Anyway, pan's "StatusIcon" should correspond to: Preferences > Miscellaneous > System Tray Behavior > Minimize to tray Behavior summary: The StatusIcon behavior was on X (only, not wayland), with the minimize to tray option enabled, but IIRC it was always partly broken and only worked when you minimized not when you used the wm-close functionality (which would have been expected to "tray" as well, with pan only actually quitting with the session or if File > Quit or its shortcut was invoked, but "closing to tray" if the wm close functionality was invoked), but if you DID "minimize to tray" under those conditions, the status icon functionality did (at least at one point) work; pan would stay active "in the tray", continuing to download messages if there were unfinished jobs and to do scheduled new-message checks, etc. I always wished (and still wish, now on wayland) the feature would be fixed to work correctly, including with window-manager-close actually traying pan instead, but as the said functionality seems to be kde/plasma specific on wayland and pan's gtk-based, I suppose there's less chance of ever actually having it working /correctly/ now than ever, so ... I guess might as well just remove the functionality entirely. (Besides, with today's relatively higher network speeds and faster solid- state "disks", there's less /need/ these days to have "a trayed/ backgrounding pan", than there was years ago when especially-cold-cache startup wasn't almost-instant and downloading a movie over dialup easily took days...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
