pcbridge v2.2.0

pcbridge's icon in the GNOME top bar can now be hidden, and a connected agent can do it on request through a new tool, panel_icon. The tool takes show, hide or status. The setting persists across logins and takes effect at once.

Hidden means hidden only while desktop control is closed. The icon is one of the signals that an agent has the desktop, so the extension shows it for as long as a grant is open, whatever the setting says. An agent that hid the icon therefore cannot hide its own access with it. The frame around the screens is not affected. The kill switch remains available as pcbridge lock, and so does the optional shortcut.

The setting belongs to the extension. It is called indicator-mode and takes always (the default) or when-granted, so it can also be changed with gsettings without an agent. An extension older than 2.2 ignores it, and the tool then says the change applies after the next login. KDE Plasma has no panel icon; there the grant shows as a notification only while it is open, and the tool says so.

This release adds panel_icon to the tools, which now number 37 (core offers 21, desktop 23). The extension's D-Bus interface is unchanged, and existing configurations keep working.

Full documentation lives in the repository:
https://github.com/Eymistaken/Pcbridge/tree/main/docs