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Placement on Windows taskbar?
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jtbox Posts: 3
21/07/2024
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Hey. First I'd like to thank you for this app, I've been looking for something like it for a long time, so it was amazing to find this app. I appreciate it.
A thing that feels a bit frustrating is the fact SyMenu doesn't show up on Windows taskbar at all. I know it has an icon in the notifications area, but having a taskbar would allow me to pin it on my taskbar so it feels like a proper start button. The floating icon isn't of much use unfortunately. I moved it on to the taskbar, but it immediately gets covered by the taskbar as soon as I click it. I tried having the floating button somewhere else over the desktop, but it feels a bit disruptive.
So now whenever I want to run something via SyMenu I have to go to the notifications, click the "Show notifications" arrow and then click on SyMenu.
Is there some way to pin button on the taskbar?
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1259
22/07/2024
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No it isn't but it's a good idea to make it possible through customization. I'll put it in my TODO list.
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jtbox Posts: 3
22/07/2024
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Gianluca wrote:
No it isn't but it's a good idea to make it possible through customization. I'll put it in my TODO list.
Thanks for replying. Would be greatly appreciated, if it's not a huge deal to implement.
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sl23 Posts: 285
25/07/2024
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If you go to the SyMenu root folder, drag and drop the SyMenu.exe to the taskbar, doesn't that do what you want?
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jtbox Posts: 3
25/07/2024
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Unfortunately it doesn't, no. It doesn't have the option to Pin to taskbar in its right click menu, and if you drag it by force there, it won't appear or do anything. It'll also not work if I pin it in the Start menu. The pinned icon appears but clicking on it doesn't do anything. It also doesn't seem to like being called by another process, I've been trying to run it from my FlowLauncher bar but it won't start from there either.
I assume it's because it doesn't have a Windows taskbar when it runs. Which is a pity because it's the only reason I'm not using it as much as I'd like. I created a menu with shortcuts of my liking, but most of the time I forget it exists in the notifications area.
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1259
26/07/2024
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I'm already working on an option to activate the taskbar button for SyMenu. This way the pinning becomes viable.
The only problem is the button doesn't behave as one would expect. When you click on a taskbar button you expect that something will popup but SyMenu does not have a normal window like the other programs, it only has a contextual menu.
I did some experiments to make the contextual menu appear when you click on the taskbar button but, again, it seems unnatural. Plus since the contextual menu disappears when it loses focus, in some circumstances you have a sort of blinking because the taskbar button is still active even if the main control loses its focus, for example when you click on a SyMenu item... it's a mess.
For these reasons the new version will be released with the option to show a taskbar button that will have no use unless the pin one. I hope it'll help the same.
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