Firetray

Overview

Js-ctypes rewrite of the binary XPCOM version of Firetray.

Features

• for all applications:

  • show/hide a single or all windows
  • a window gets restored to its previous state, position, size, virtual desktop
  • optional hide to tray on minimize
  • optional start minimized to tray
  • optional show icon only when hidden to tray

• for mail applications:

  • display unread messages count in tray icon
  • customizable tray icon for mail biff
  • include/exclude mail accounts and folders types to/from unread messages count

Notes

• requires GTK+ 2.20 and higher.
• Firetray unsets the tabs.warnOnClose built-in preference, which otherwise disrupts the handeling of the close event.
• Experimental non-customizable keyboard shortcut for hiding all windows set to: accel-shift-w

References

• if you're looking for other mozilla-desktop integration:

  • Paul Neulinger's Gnome-shell-Thunderbird integration
  • Mike Conley's Unity-Thunderbird integration
  • discontinued Mozilla New Mail Icon (Biff)

• Alltray launches any applications into tray

KNOWN BUGS

• windows aren't restored with the same z-order, but there is no means to correct that under Linux

• notifications for excluded mail account servers are not disabled. Newmailalerts are hard-coded and we can't easily disable them on a per-server basis (only globally, see mail.biff.show_alert). The proper way would probably be to disable default notifications globally, and handle notifications ourselves. This is out of the scope of this addon, but you may want to give a try to the MailAlert extension

• child windows (compose message, preferences, ...) are not handled by Firetray. For ex., they are not hidden along with there top-level window.

• because of getNumNewMessages()'s strange behaviour, it's impossible to display an accurate count of new messages. The best we can do is display a biff icon.

Acknowledgment

• Some code borrowed from Mike Conley.
• Some code borrowed from Nils Mayer.
• kind support from Neil Deaking, Bobby Holley