Hide status icon by default

[David Prieto]

Linuxdcpp lacks a handy way to show / hide its notification icon. Ideally, that area is supposed to be reserved for system notifications and not background processes, so some users might prefer not to show the icon.

Including an option in the view menu that enables / disables the icon would be a handy way to do it.

[Razzloss (razzloss)]

There's already an option in Preferences -> appearance -> Show status icon. Do you really need a handier way than this? IMO programs putting their icons in notification area is useless in most of the cases (yes it is that with linuxdcpp also) so I don't know why would you want to toggle it manually that often.

Maybe it should be hidden by default? I think current default is to show the icon?

--RZ

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

I'm OK with not showing it by default, actually.

[Steven Sheehy (steven-sheehy)]

Unfortunately, we use the setting from the core and it defaults it to show. You'll find that a lot of our designs are restricted due to the core. Our choices are to make our own customized setting or to rewrite the core settings to not suck (e.g to allow SettingsManager to be extended so that settings can be overridden).