Enhancement: Tray and notifications

[sr-tream]

A some ideas for this great app:

• Hide app to tray
• Notify about new videos in subscriptions
• Restore old video list after start program, and update list in background

[PrestonN]

Hide app to tray

What benefit would this have over minimizing the window? If notifications are implemented then I can understand having it there as a notification indicator. Right now in the app's current state I do not see much of a reason to do this.

Notify about new videos in subscriptions

This is a duplicate of #1

Restore old video list after start program, and update list in background

I'm assuming you're talking about subscriptions? This is something that SkyTube does, except they still update in the foreground of the app. They store the subscriptions into a database. Once it is loaded, they display that database and then get an update to the user's subscriptions. While I believe this is something that I can do, I think you'll be pleased with the next update. I was able to speed up the process of getting subscriptions to the point where I do not believe that this is needed. Subscriptions now load in only a couple of seconds on my machine and should be a much nicer experience than how it is currently.

[sr-tream]

What benefit would this have over minimizing the window? If notifications are implemented then I can understand having it there as a notification indicator. Right now in the app's current state I do not see much of a reason to do this.

Yeah, it for notifications.

I'm assuming you're talking about subscriptions?

Yep

[je-vv]

I believe the tray would be pretty important, when using freetube as a music player, getting rid of it from the toolbar, but keeping it iconified in the tray, and providing control options through right click, like pause, play, stop, besides a setting option also available with right click. That's way different than minimizing, and uses way less space, just the tray icon...

[omega3]

What benefit would this have over minimizing the window?

I still prefer classic task manager like this one over icon task manager. So the issue is that when I am in web browser and do my stuff I don't want too many programs on task manager that are not used because it is a distraction of attention but I still want to have program running for actions like for example open youtube link in freetube (by redirecting link via browser add-on). Then it would maximize.

It is really legitimate request with valid use-cases.

[je-vv]

Well, that might be a matter of taste. I actually dislike having a crowded task bar, that it's really hard to identify what you're looking for. I prefer a tray, or now a days called notification area, nothing in the taskbar, particularly if it's something that might be run for long periods of time and you can just interact with it with pause/resume/stop/start buttons and so on.

Perhaps it's a tendency to avoid the tray, but that's somehow now days replaced but more crowded stuff... Like on gnome and kde, now a days besides the panel, you need an extra dock, which is nothing less than another panel. So you end up with one or two panels plus a dock.

To me the tray is the cleanest desk option. It should work such that when you minimize it doesn't go to the task bar, as shown on your image, but instead it minimizes to tray, so not polluting the task bar.

At times it's even a matter of tendencies imposed by major DEs, which is also sad. I'm getting feedback from other SW, that on gnome the tendency is not to have tray, and then that must be followed, as if following what gnome does would make things any better...

So it's a matter of taste, and ultimately it boils down to a developer preference.