Change icon left click click behaviour

[autoteelar]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

make left click toggle hide/show app

Why would you like to do it?

because it makes more sense and every other app does it

How would you like to achieve it?

make right click stay the same, but instead of making left click a copy of what right click does, just make it quickly show/hide

you can also very accidentially close the app accidentially just by clicking once, as linux has some weird feature wher eyour mouse clicks stay until release.

tldr is just extremely annoying like that and i think it should be this way. i see absolutely 0 downsides and only upsides to changing this.

Have you considered any alternatives?

No response

Additional context

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[autoteelar]

simply just double clicking the icon as of now quits it, as the quit button spawns right under the mouse, although this is a WM thing, its still impractical and worth mentioning again another reason why this change is important to end users

[t3chguy]

make left click toggle hide/show app

This is how it is programmed to work, but the various compatibility layers in Electron/Chromium make it not behave as expected sometimes.

https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/blob/develop/src/tray.ts#L61

This is an upstream issue electron/electron#14941

[autoteelar]

thank you t3chguy, so its an electron thing and its already coded in element nice, hopefully we see these things worked out :)

[autoteelar]

wow, its been an unresolved issue for 4 years though, shouldnt that be an extremely easy fix? should take a few minutes letalone 4 years

[t3chguy]

Duplicate of #11772

[t3chguy]

@autoteelar unfortunately not, Linux has multiple tray icon implementations, fixing one will regress another, Element also relies on Electron handling it given handling all the world's tray icon implementations ourselves would expend a lot of developer time.

[autoteelar]

i guess things are just more complicated than the surface level appears to be, thanks for sharing