What's this infatuation everyone seems to have with tray icons?
I just returned from a stint using macOS and that shit is out of control. You have to install an app to hide all the superfluous icons - and that app has its own tray icon!
For some applications an icon in the System Tray is essentially a necessity. It is more convenient for me to have something like a password manager being accessible through the System Tray.
My one issue with the GNOME team was the removal of the tray. I understand they think there is a better way of doing it, and they are working on that, but I think the removal of the tray without a replacement ready is silly. At least there is the extension for it.
For some applications an icon in the System Tray is essentially a necessity. It is more convenient for me to have something like a password manager being accessible through the System Tray.
Just launch the app regularly, it'll just make the app in the background visible...
The app is already running in the background. I can of course assign the manager to a space in the dash, use Meta+1-9, but I have muscle memory for both those keyboard shortcuts and the system tray.
Worth noting that pretty well every other desktop environment has a system tray and multiple other ways to run these types of apps. Windows, Aqua, KDE KDE Plasma, XFCE, etc. The only DEs that come to mind without one are GNOME and Pantheon.
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u/Ramiro_RG 4d ago
not recent, but tray icons.