Add tray icon with (up to) 10 last updated notes

[Redsandro]

Here is a feature I'm missing from Tomboy Notes, showing the last edited items in the system tray.

A hook is placed in the same location as #1528 so there will be a merge conflict; please consider that PR first.

[kazup01]

Cool!

[Redsandro]

@kazup01 @Rokt33r Some people might prefer not to keep Boostnote (the tray icon with latest notes) open, so I've added the option to uncheck this behavior.

Unchecking this will quit the app when the main window is closed, same to the behavior prior to this PR.

[Redsandro]

I don't know why the test is suddenly failing.

Here's a deprecation warning:

value provided is not in a recognized RFC2822 or ISO format. moment construction falls back to js Date(), which is not reliable across all browsers and versions. Non RFC2822/ISO date formats are discouraged and will be removed in an upcoming major release. Please refer to http://momentjs.com/guides/#/warnings/js-date/ for more info.

• http://momentjs.com/guides/#/warnings/js-date/
• http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string/

[Rokt33r]

@Redsandro Please ignore the test. It fails randomly. I'll fix it later.

[Redsandro]

Fixed merge conflict.

[Rokt33r]

@Redsandro Which OSs did you test?

[Rokt33r]

The tray icon is not visible on macOS.

Idle :

Focused :

[Redsandro]

@Rokt33r Linux/Cinnamon. The tray icon stays. Hadn't given much thought to other Operating Systems handling it differently to be honest. I don't have OSX or Windows. 🤔 Do you have ideas? I have given you permission to do commits on top of this PR.

[Rokt33r]

Don't worry! I have one with macOS. I'll fix it today. 😄

[Redsandro]

Great! 😄

[Redsandro]

@Rokt33r any update on this?

[Rokt33r]

@Redsandro Sorry, I've forgotten to review this... I'll do it in this weekend. 🙏 🙏

[jcB0085]

Heya, any updates on this or an overlook if it will be addressed soon? Thanks!

[rmatelec]

+1 This would be nice to have

[Redsandro]

@AWolf81 just brought this back to mainline. 👍

[AWolf81]

You're welcome.

During testing your branch I have noticed the following points that we should check:

• After starting it seems like the tray menu is not loading the most recently edited notes. I think after clicking on a storageLocation it will correctly show the menu.
• The tray is showing the recently edited notes related to currently selected storage location. Is this like we want it? IMO it would be better to have the recently edited notes across all storage locations - like it is with the note links below the search field.
• I had sometimes multiple tray icon symbols - not sure if this is related to hot module reloading or if there is a real problem.

[Redsandro]

@AWolf81 I must admit that I have lost interest in this PR due to lack of interest from the maintainers.

If you are motivated to see this through, I can add you as a collaborator to my fork, or you can fork my branch and create a new PR.

[AWolf81]

@Redsandro thanks for your info and no problem.

I understand that it's not motivating to have a PR that long open with-out finishing it in a timely manner but I think the maintainers are busy with other stuff and I think it's OK that it takes some time to get things ready - a year is sure not acceptable but it can happen to forget to address PRs...

And there are more important features that have a higher priority than the tray icon feature - maybe a road map with an overview of the features and improvements would be great to have. That would also help to be more focused on the important parts. Not sure if there is anything like a Trello board or Github projects or Zenhub to track these things but it would be great to have.

I've used Zenhub before and it integrates nicely in Github with a browser extension but re-activating a GH project for tracking issues would be also OK.

It is also a lot of work to get over 70 PRs merged with just some maintainers. Not sure how many people are actively working on it but I think there are around three collaborators with write access that are active at the moment.

Anyway, thanks for your efforts and I'll try to finalize your work and check if I can improve the mentioned points. I'll create a new PR to add the improvements.

I hope I stay motivated because I really like working on Boostnote and I like the app. But the speed of getting PRs merged could be better...

[Redsandro]

@AWolf81 about half a dozen of my PR's were merged reasonably quickly. This one is a clear outlier. Not sure if team is just not interested or if there are bigger problems related to this PR. Perhaps @Rokt33r can shed some light before you do too much effort.