feat(system): Start minimized to tray (optional setting)

[gaursomya777-dev]

What problem does it solve?

Users who enable Close to Tray often still get a full main window flash on every manual launch. Login-at-startup already supports "stay in tray" (wasLaunchedAtLogin && closeToTray), but a normal double-click / Start-menu launch always shows the window. Power users who run AionUi as a background agent host want to open the app silently into the tray.

Proposed solution

Add a System setting: Start minimized to tray (default off).

Behavior:

1. When enabled and Close to Tray is enabled: on cold start, create the window with showOnReady: false (or hide immediately after ready) so the app lives in the tray only.
2. When Close to Tray is off, the new setting is ignored (or disabled in UI) — without a tray lifecycle, hiding the window would look like a crash.
3. Tray left-click / menu "Show" still restores the window (same helpers as feat(tray): left-click tray icon toggles show/hide main window (Windows/Linux) #3725).
4. Persist as e.g. system.startMinimizedToTray next to system.closeToTray.
5. Unit-testable pure helper: shouldShowMainWindowOnReady({ closeToTray, startMinimized, launchedAtLogin }).

This reuses the existing createWindow({ showOnReady }) path in packages/desktop/src/index.ts rather than inventing a second launch pipeline.

Scope

Desktop main process + System settings UI + small config key. No AionCore / renderer chat changes.

Willing to implement it yourself?

Yes — please convert to a bonus issue assigned to me (gaursomya777-dev) for the AionUi × Kimi campaign if accepted.

[github-actions[bot]]

Thanks for posting! @IceyLiu will take a look soon. / 感谢发帖！@IceyLiu 会尽快跟进。

[gaursomya777-dev]

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Implementation ready

Hi @IceyLiu — full implementation is ready:

• PR: feat(system): Start minimized to tray (optional setting) #3741
• Branch: feat/start-minimized-to-tray
• Pure helper + unit tests + System settings UI + i18n (all locales)

Please convert this proposal to a bonus issue assigned to gaursomya777-dev so it can count for the AionUi × Kimi campaign. Happy to link the issue number on the PR once assigned. Thanks!
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[gaursomya777-dev]

CI fix + still waiting for bonus conversion

Hi @IceyLiu — follow-up on this proposal:

• PR: feat(system): Start minimized to tray (optional setting) #3741
• Unit CI was red (SystemModalContent mock missing the new IPC providers); fixed and unit tests are green again
• Still need this converted to a bonus issue assigned to gaursomya777-dev for the AionUi × Kimi campaign

Also shipped a sibling proposal implementation: Discussion #3687 → PR #3744 (restore last conversation). Either track works as our 3rd campaign PR. Thanks!

[gaursomya777-dev]

Follow-up after #3726 merge

Hi @IceyLiu — thanks for merging #3726.

Still blocked on a 3rd bonus assignment for the Kimi campaign.

• PR ready + green: feat(system): Start minimized to tray (optional setting) #3741 (start minimized to tray)
• Please convert this proposal → bonus issue assigned to gaursomya777-dev (or pick feat: restore last conversation on launch (optional setting) #3687 / [Bug]: Provider 设置中缺少 is_full_url 开关，非标准 API 路径的模型无法自助配置 #3514 — any one of the three is fine)

Appreciate it.