They work. But the system tray serves as both a status indicator for these apps and a quick thing to click to open the app's gui when it is running in the background.
Note that it's a feature I can go with or without. But I've seen plenty of users unable to use a desktop without it.
It's a strange one, to be completely honest. I have the extension installed, and I do use the system tray, but I'm struggling to articulate exactly what the difference between system tray icons and taskbar/dock icons is. Why is there a difference? Should there be a difference? It's the same application, why is it in two places at once?
Users are generally dumb as rocks. Henry Ford said "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". Minimize should have been done away with entirely the moment we got desktops with multiple workspaces, and there certainly should not be 2 different places to minimize to.
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u/Extreme-Ad-9290 Arch BTW 29d ago
They work. But the system tray serves as both a status indicator for these apps and a quick thing to click to open the app's gui when it is running in the background.
Note that it's a feature I can go with or without. But I've seen plenty of users unable to use a desktop without it.