Tray icon question/confusion

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I read that there are limitations on libappindicator so that we can only show a context menu for the tray icon on linux (https://github.com/tauri-apps/tray-icon/issues/104)

I know a lot of apps can handle left and right click:

• Nextcloud (Right: Context menu, Left: Tray popup)
• Webcord, discord, keepass, signal ( Right: context menu, left: open app)

I'm wondering how they managed it if the tray components have no clue if I clicked left or right ?
Is there a way to open a custom window on click instead ?

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i assume they simply didn't use libappindicator

there was some legacy gtk3 alternative but that was deprecated in gtk3 already and not part of gtk4. then there's the sni standard but that's a mess as well (we'll migrate to that anyway)

Is there a way to open a custom window on click instead ?
afaik nope, that would go via a click listener as well

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Thanks for your reply 🙂

So, just to confirm, the only option at this moment is to open a small menu and there is no other option ?

I'll manage XD

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correct

or i guess you could try the tray-icon pr that tries to implement SNI support but not sure if that's in a working state

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tray-icon/pull/201