Ummm... what kind of "filterings" are those?
Perhaps need to be "turned on" (or off) by choice (or by a command-line switch)?
In any case, shouldn't a user be WARNED NOT to use that for sensitive information as they will be further exposed (traveling along the stack with all those look-ups)?
Or perhaps maybe one should develop a small textbox app, without any filterings that will run with either Alt-F2 or Alt-F3 replacing XFCE's default setup with that being run either xfce4-appfinder --collapsed
or xfce4-appfinder
?
I can also reproduce, but does this impact any real use case?
Do I need to explain in more detail or would it be sufficient to say that I use the xfce4-appfinder as a temporary copy/paste box which can be called by a hotkey (Alt-F2), and as it is minimal it minimaly blocks everything else I see on the screen?
Not it's not resolved, what I'm saying still applies to: xfce4-indicator-plugin
it needs to allow left clicking the icons as some applications have some functionality to it which is not substituted by showing a context menu.
Onto my use case, something's must be misconfigured on my system and I'm asking on how to determine so, as of today, none of these showed their icons to xfce4-panel
's "Status Tray Plugin": discord
, element-desktop
, qjoypad
which they did some hours ago and since then I haven't tampered with related configuration files or settings in any way.
What has happened in between was that: my monitor turned off, xscreensaver worked for a while, then the display went to sleep, then turned back on again. Maybe I should file another issue to xfce4-panel? I'll do that later.
Something funny just happened, which I don't know how it did happen, as I was updating the table above I forgot to include audacious
and I did re-add all those items in the panel to check its behavior and... BOOM! everything showed up in xfce4-panel's "Status Tray Plugin" which I configured to my taste.
I guess it has to do with me clicking on "Clear Known Items" button.
But, bottom line, if XFCE's plans are to deprecate all those in favor of xfce4-indicator-plugin
I believe there should be an option to toggle/allow more option to the user regarding: "Menu is primary action" and to clarify this I mean that the user should be able to interact with those icons with either "left click" and/or "right click" and should be left on their preference.
I did that research I was talking about earlier regarding my use case, and here are the results:
xfce4-indicator-plugin (2.4.0) | xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin (0.2.3) | xfce4-panel's "Status Tray Plugin" (4.16.2) | |
---|---|---|---|
audacious (4.0.5) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
caffeine (2.9.8) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
discord (0.0.14) | Yes | No | No |
element-desktop (1.7.24) | Yes | No | No |
network-manager-applet (1.20.0) | No | No | Yes |
qjoypad (4.3.1) | Yes | No | No |
qmmp (1.4.4) | Yes | No | Yes |
redshift (1.12) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The trouble arises around the usage of: qjoypad
, qmmp
which they do not "unhide" their windows, to which behavior I'm used to expect, when I left click their "indicator icons". For example if you want to unhide those programs' windows you cannot do it once hidden and you have to improvise other methods to get to it.