On Tuesday, 7 May 2024 03:19:30 CEST Duncan wrote: > 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.
AFIU, this may be more related to window manager (e.g. kwin) than X or Wayland, but that does not make much difference for Pan. > 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. The only notification mechanism left is based on dbus. > Anyway, pan's "StatusIcon" should correspond to: > > Preferences > Miscellaneous > System Tray Behavior > Minimize to tray Good point. Without StatusIcon, this option is no longer used, I'll have to remove it. > 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. Since this feature is deprecated in Gtk3, it won't be fixed. I don't even know if StatusIcon is available in Gtk4. > (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...) Indeed. I think Pan is more suited to "interactive" usenet browsing. There are other solutions to download in the background, hellanzb for instance. All the best _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
