Option to change close button behaviour (minimize or send to background)

[iAweX]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

After update to v5.10 close button does not minimize to taskbar (dash to dock) on Linux. Behaviour of close button with tray icon disabled that existed for a long time was changed without offering the option to restore it.

#28824

Describe the solution you'd like

Option to change close button behaviour (minimize or send to background)

Describe alternatives you've considered

Restore previous behaviour

Additional context

No response

[ilya-fedin]

#8941?

[iAweX]

GNOME, by default doesn't have tray (you need to install 3rd party extensions to enable it) and minimize button (you should use tweaks to enable it) . Before tdesktop v5.10, cross (close button) with tray icon disabled just minimized app to taskbar, so you can see that app is running and switched to it from overview or using alt+tab.

In version 5.10 this behaviour was changed without any ability to restore previous behaviour. Now cross (close button) sends app to background, so you have to click desktop file (icon) to make the app active. It's very inconvenient in default GNOME without extensions and tweaks, especially for those who new to Linux and GNOME and those who prefer default clean GNOME.

[ilya-fedin]

Actually, this behavior was since a long time for GNOME. Since v5.10, the same behavior is used for non-GNOME too. Apparently the detection was just broken for you for some reason.

[iAweX]

I think that users should be given the ability to choose what the close button does:

1. Closes the application
2. Sends it to the background
3. Minimizes to taskbar

[iAweX]

Actually, this behavior was since a long time for GNOME. Since v5.10, the same behavior is used for non-GNOME too. Apparently the detection was just broken for you for some reason.

Very interesting, what can broke this. I tried to downgrade to 5.9 and it works as expected. So I think it's not OS related issue.

[ilya-fedin]

There's a problem with minimization to taskbar: not all wms support it and we get reports about that (#28646, #28763), the underlying toolkit (Qt) doesn't have API to check the support so the only way to be safe is to not to have this option on Linux at all.

[ilya-fedin]

Very interesting, what can broke this. I tried to downgrade to 5.9 and it works as expected. So I think it's not OS related issue.

By this behavior, I mean running in background. It was always on GNOME/Pantheon. If you haven't had it before 5.10, it means your system wasn't recognized as GNOME and there was a bug in GNOME detection. Since 5.10, running in background is the behavior for all Linux.

[ilya-fedin]

I think that users should be given the ability to choose what the close button does:

Your issue is a third variation for the option to control the behavior of the cross. I believe we don't need that much issues about that, #8941 is enough.

[iAweX]

#28646 is about Alpine Linux and #28763 is about Hyprland.

Alpine mostly used for servers and Hyperland (or other WM without taskbar) is for geeks. And what about GNOME users, who doesn't have tray and minimize button by default?

GNOME, by default doesn't have tray (you need to install 3rd party extensions to enable it) and minimize button (you should >use tweaks to enable it) . Before tdesktop v5.10, cross (close button) with tray icon disabled just minimized app to taskbar, so >you can see that app is running and switched to it from overview or using alt+tab.

[ilya-fedin]

And what about GNOME users, who doesn't have tray and minimize button by default?

Well, they are who asked this behavior since a long time (search closed issues for "run in background") and, as I already said multiple times, you should have experienced it even before 5.10, but due to some bug in detection you had the non-GNOME behavior. idk why but most GNOME users hated Telegram being in overview. Personally I'm not a GNOME user and idk what is the right behavior so I did what most users asked.

[iAweX]

OK.

May be there is some workaround to enable behavior that I described?

[ilya-fedin]

As I already said I'm not a GNOME user but I guess you can pin tdesktop somewhere for fast access? Or, well, install a tray extension? I also heard GNOME shows running flatpak apps in some list on panel...