alt Hacker News> We’re working on a comparable UI for Windows devices
As a Linux user and fan of good GUI apps, it always bums me out I'm stuck with the CLI-only options for apps like Tailscale. Even for a simple tray icon I have to resort to buggy GNOME extensions.
I understand the fragmented ecosystem and small user-base on the desktop Linux side make it hard to justify, but I hope that changes one day!
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skavi • yesterday at 7:48 PM
this may have been what you were referring to with “ buggy GNOME extensions”, but in case it wasn’t:
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Re: buggy GNOME extensions, it drives me nuts that GNOME has no built in support for menu bar icons/app indicators.
There's a whole class of GUI apps that should run in the background until needed, and GNOME just has no solution here. I really don't get why they removed this functionality.
I don't want a "service" model where you start/stop gui apps via systemd. And I don't want to keep a window around for no good reason.