electron-promote-windows-tray-items

When you first create an Electron tray item on Windows, it will show up in the toolbar customization area:

rather than in the toolbar itself:

By default, the user must explicitly choose to show icons in the toolbar. But not only does this create extra, potentially non-intuitive work for the user, it forces the design of icons that will look good in both the toolbar and the customization area since you can't choose different icons for each location.

This package helps you skip this process. For any item in its default state, i.e. the user has not explicitly hid the item from the toolbar, this package will "promote" that item from the customization area to the toolbar.

Requirements

This package may be safely required on non-Windows platforms, though the package will return an error if it is attempted to be used on non-Windows platforms.

This project is currently compatible with Electron 0.36.2 due to its dependence on electron-edge.

Installation

For Electron:

npm install electron-promote-windows-tray-items --save

Usage

var promoteWindowsTrayItems = require('electron-promote-windows-tray-items');

// Create a tray item.
var icon = new Tray(/* ... */);

// Icon will now be in the toolbar customization area without the user explicitly toggling it to show in the toolbar.

if (process.platform === 'win32') {
  promoteWindowsTrayItems(function(err) {
    // Icon will now be in the toolbar itself unless the user explicitly hid it from the toolbar.
  });
}

Contributing

We welcome pull requests! Please lint your code.

Credits

Created by Jeff Wear, with the core C# logic used by this module originally developed by Paul Betts.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2016 Mixmax, Inc., licensed under the MIT License.

Some portions derived from Squirrel.Windows, copyright 2012-2016 GitHub, Inc., licensed under the MIT License.

Release History

• 1.0.1 README fixes
• 1.0.0 Initial release.