Planned swaybar tray features

[ianyfan]

I've noticed that there are still a number of issues that are getting opened regarding missing tray features despite the existence of this post, so I thought I would elaborate a bit more on these points.

Most of the issues fall under these two categories:

• Some X icons don't show - these programs use the XEmbed specification, which currently isn't supported. Please encourage them to use Status Notifier Items instead. The other way for this to work would be to implement a proxy, like plasma. (in fact, it should be possible to use plasma's proxy to get these icons to work, but I couldn't get it to install, and it would be nice to have one included)
• Click actions don't work - these programs use the Canonical DBus menu specification, which needs to be implemented. However, it is currently blocked by layer shell popups: Add support for layer shell popups #3871

The following features are either implementation details or extensions for usability:

• Caching icons correctly: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#implementation_notes (ref swaybar repeatedly polling various files  #3789)
• Locales when parsing index.theme file
• Way to re-arrange icons

Currently not being worked on (by me, at least) so contributions would be very welcome :)

[artizirk]

KDE guys have a XEmbed proxy daemon https://github.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/tree/master/xembed-sni-proxy

[m-khvoinitsky]

Consider adding: SVG icons support.
Currently, for example, Quassel shows sad face instead of icon because its icon is SVG.

[ianyfan]

Hmm, I did allow it to load SVGs if it was built with gdk-pixbuf2 support, but I never actually tested it, so it might have gone wrong somewhere.

[m-khvoinitsky]

I'm not 100% sure that the reason is SVG but that's the only difference that I've noticed between Quassel and working icons. And there is no any hint in logs.

[emersion]

However, it is currently blocked by layer shell popups

This can now be implemented, as layer-shell popups are supported by Sway.

[agraven]

Should an issue be created for the implementing the DBus menu specification?

[m-khvoinitsky]

Consider adding: SVG icons support.
Currently, for example, Quassel shows sad face instead of icon because its icon is SVG.

It works since 1.4.

[emersion]

PR implementing D-Bus menus: #5161

[nmschulte]

I'm not sure what is spec'd, but is it possible to have tray icon tooltips, that helps me identify the tray item, some sort of name or title?

[ianyfan]

Hm, I guess you can do it now that popups have been implemented, and there is a tooltip property in the SNI spec, but it's not something that I'm planning on doing, so someone else will have to implement it

[Merith-TK]

how do i enable this? running archlinux on sway 1.4. but the only tray icon i have ever seen on my system through swaybar was albert, which didnt work due to the whole isolation that wayland does

[LambLeeg]

Recently I began to use Sway instead of i3 and I only have one bug, my system tray has no menu bar with actions, for example, Steam or Telegram also i3 by default has a WiFi settings icon that I have never seen in SwayWM. Good luck with this project because Wayland is the future. Anyway, Sway has more features and I absolutely like it!

[crocket]

Both xembed-sni-proxy and snixembed failed to work on sway-1.5 on gentoo linux.

[ianyfan]

Can we please stop reporting random bugs here please? If xembed proxy doesn't work, and it's identifiably a problem with sway, then please open a new issue. The tray was written as a standards-compliant implementation, and not to specifically work with an xembed proxy, so the places where they work are more of a happy accident. There are also no current plans to roll our own proxy either.
Please encourage xembed apps to use SNIs, thanks.

[xi]

For anyone searching for a short term solution for menues: It is not that hard to show dbus menues in dmenu or something like that. Proof of concept: https://gist.github.com/xi/b88af997b485191fa0beb5d6612ead29

[oniGino]

I can understand not support Xembed, but for SNI is there a ticket somewhere tracking dbusmenu work?

[linux40]

The Canonical DBus menus are blocked not only for the click actions. A script calling Gtk.Menu.popup doesn't work too.

[Hikandy]

Any work-arounds for this meanwhile?

[oniGino]

Any work-arounds for this meanwhile?

I switched to waybar, it is a lot more feature rich and has full tray support

[akhiljalagam]

Any work-arounds for this meanwhile?

https://gist.github.com/xi/b88af997b485191fa0beb5d6612ead29