Support Tray.setTitle on Linux

[johannesjo]

• Electron version: 0.36.10 (latest stable)
• Operating system: Ubuntu 15.10

I already asked this on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35755240/how-to-add-text-to-ubuntu-app-indicator-with-with-nw-js-or-electron

I would like to add text to the ubuntu (unity) app indicator. That's possible via the python package libindicator but not via electron so far.

[zcbenz]

Currently setting label for app indicator is not supported.

[johannesjo]

What would be required to enable this functionality? Maybe I could provide a PR? I'm just not sure where to start (aside from the libindicator package).

[johannesjo]

This is still not supported with electron 1.4.1. I really would like to help, but I'm not sure were to get started.

[johannesjo]

I suppose this would be the right file to map the code: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/72d67788945d456147edb4498154d231fa1482a6/atom/browser/ui/gtk/app_indicator_icon.cc

Is it enough to bind the function there to the proper app_indicator_set_title?

Also I'm curious about what the best way would be to compile electron and let it run with a proper test case.

[johannesjo]

Ok I found this: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md unfortunately I have no way to make the 25 Gig required available currently on my dev machine. I'm still wondering, if this is not an easy fix.

[MarshallOfSound]

@johannesjo Try bootstrapping with --dev it will download a lot less

[johannesjo]

@MarshallOfSound thank you for the tip!

[johannesjo]

Seems like a simple mapping won't solve this issue, as this feature needs to be implemented into chromium itself first (maybe here).

I also wrote a feature request for chromiums issue tracker.

[mkg20001]

Any progress?

[codebytere]

Given that this remains impossible without action on the chromium side, and that this isn't currently on our roadmap, i'm going to go ahead and label this a wontfix. However, should someone determine a workable solution or chromium were to implement it, we would be very open to accepting a PR!

[johannesjo]

Just FYI: I created a new request with chromium:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1016125&can=2&q=Tray%20Title&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified