Anyone was able to get Liferea taskbar icon to show? I’d love to use this RSS reader, since there isn’t any other good GTK alternative to RSS readers on Linux. But this is a deal breaker to me.
Liferea has notification and taskbar settings. But while the notifications do show when I get an updated RSS feed, the taskbar icon is completely absent.
“Task bar”… Hmm… Which one do you mean specifically?
There could be different behaviours depending on which one.
Did you enable the indicators from control center->mate tweak->panel->enable indicators ?
Sorry for the poor post. Was in a bit of a hurry and I insisted in writing it. It could have waited.
Liferea doesn’t display the indicator icon in the MATE panel. It does display the messages when it gets new feeds, but not the application icon. This means that I cannot set the application to hide on close.
Indicators are enabled and they work normally for all other applications (currently in my panel indicators area I can see CherryTree, Clementine, Claws Mail, Artha, Enpass, The keyboard language indicator, The Recent Notifications applet, and the usual network, and sound indicators).
Well, it turns out this is an issue known to Liferea developers:
Liferea notification icon woes
If I read that right, in the upcoming 1.11 version, they will be removing the feature entirely and instead add a basic panel icon plugin that should work for MATE. Then we will have to wait for Ubuntu repos to update it. Problem is that it works just fine for Ubuntu right now, if I understand it as they are no doubt linking against libindicate, which it seems is what is causing the problems in MATE.
Oh well…
Plank doesn’t really solve my workflow. The application can’t be minimized to it, like you do when you close a window that minimizes to the panel, effectively hiding it completely, except for the panel icon. This frees up space on the Windows List applets.
Whereas with Plank, I can indeed see an icon there, but if I minimize Liferea, it will still remain in the Windows List panel applet. I haven’t hidden it. And that is a big part of my usual workflow concerning applications I wish to remain opened throughout my entire session.
You could try the non-Indicator layout as a test, since some applications work under non-indicators but not indicators. (Programs like Dropbox and Telegram did that and have since been patched I believe).
The application will need restarting and this will destroy your panel changes (best save them first)
That’s good the developers know about this. If they have their own official PPA, you could add that instead of waiting for the Ubuntu repositories.
Before moving back to putting my rss feeds on Claws Mail, I’m trying to see if I can warm up to the Plank docker paradigm. I’m a “panel” user since Windows 95 and it just feels right and perfect. But truth be told I never really gave this docker business much attention. I find it less convenient than the immediate access an always visible bar with a windows list gives, and featureless compared to the traditional panel separation of normal and hidden applications. It also tends to get in the way if I move the mouse to the wrong place and is generally a nuisance when it doesn’t seem to know when it is time to hide or to show. It’s pretty alright; but it’s the type of dumb pretty you wouldn’t want to marry with.
But maybe I can try and use it more to see if it is indeed inferior to the traditional window list paradigm. So I removed my window list from the panel, configured some applications out of the indicator panel and am now using Plank as my application switcher. We shall see…
It’s funny, if I’m not mistaken dockers predate even the windows list. I was finishing college when NeXTSTEP introduce them. My university had bought two NeXT computers and I remember fooling around in them. And even then, despite there being no operating system UI like it anywhere (this was 1990), I remember so well their dockers (it was not a single one) innovation were already my main criticism.
