Show a popup that the application is hidden and not closed

[kiminuo]

This issue is extracted from my comment in #12681.

Setting:

is confusing on Windows and on linux. On macOS, I would say it's fine.

A popup¹ saying "Your Wasabi application is still running in the background" would make it clear that the application is still running. It can be displayed just once after user installs the application, not every time.

Rationale: On Windows, all applications I use are simply terminated once user clicks "X" button. Wasabi behaves non-standardly, which is fine. But how is user supposed to know that why the application was not turned off?

Note:

• Max acked here.
• Yahia acked here.

so I think I'm not the only one who got burnt by this.

Footnotes

1. ... or any other visual cue ↩

[kingdayx]

Is this task open?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisha-day-jenkins-64b1b6132/

[MaxHillebrand]

Is this task open?

You see the priority of a task in the relevance realization project Board.
You see if someone is working on it by the assignment board.

So, this task is currently a should, can wait, and small task, not assigned to anyone.

It is therefore a potential issue for you to pick up and fix.

Notice however, that there are other issues with a higher priority and urgency.

[turbolay]

cACK for displaying once, def non standard behavior on Windows, don't know any other software that does the same.

[nostitos]

I don't think it's THAT non-standard, just that for most apps that do that it's expected from the app purpose.

Chat app, VPN, Anti-virus, ect

The problem is that Wasabi is seen as 70% a Wallet that has CLOSE as expected behavior and 30% as a mixing daemon people might expect to remain.

[kiminuo]

@nostitos

I don't think it's THAT non-standard, just that for most apps that do that it's expected from the app purpose.

I think that 95% per cent of apps on Windows close once you close them using the X button. There are applications that do not behave that way but I consider them rather exceptions from the convention.

Even my chat apps overwhelmingly close and not hide.

So I don't agree with you but it's IMO true that it can differ a bit based on installed apps.

[soosr]

There is no native system notification handler so we will have a dialog that will pop on close and inform the user that Wasabi will still operate in the background. There will be a checkbox for not showing this dialog again and we can also display the setting the disable the run in the background feature.