Feature request: toggle steam window on left click of system tray

[Hi-Angel]

Apps with ability to close to tray — e.g. viber, kmail, vlc, pidgin, kmix, etc — are commonly shows menu only on right-mouse click, and (un)hide (from)to system tray on left-click.

Would be great if steam would (un)hide to tray on left-mouse click either. ATM steam just shows menu for any of clicks.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Hi-Angel, if I'm reading this correctly, you're asking for the left click action of the steam tray icon to toggle the main steam window frame, is that correct?

I'm not sure libappindicator is capable of this behavior.

[Hi-Angel]

@kisak-valve yes.

[cjwijtmans]

"Unity shows popup menu on left click; Plasma triggers activation, which is why apps that use standard libappindicator do nothing on left click in Plasma."

https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libappindicator-activate/?comments=all

[kitsunyan]

libappindicator doesn't support "primary activate" action which is triggered on left click in KDE. But it supports "secondary activate" action, I guess it's triggered on middle click.

Some distributions like Arch Linux provide a patched version of libappindicator which binds "secondary activate" action to both secondary and primary activation.

So I think it will be a good idea to at least implement this feature using app_indicator_set_secondary_activate_target. So at least middle click will show/hide steam window. And for some distributions it will work even better. I don't think there is possibility to implement it better than this way.

[Programie]

Other applications which are using libappindicator have the possibility to have different actions on left and right click. So it should be no problem to implement it in Steam as well?

For example Gajim uses libappindicator and toggles the main window with a left click. On right click a menu is shown. I would expect the same behavior in Steam as well.

[martinpl]

If someone need workaround on GNOME 3.36:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2890/tray-icons-reloaded/