libRocket VS birdtray

it's a fork of https://github.com/libRocket/libRocket which was started a long time ago.

I've found libRocket to be a great UI library paired with SDL2 and OpenGL. It allows you to use a subset of html and css to design your UI, while handing rendering off to the renderer of your choice. This gives you the flexibility to add advanced visual effects during the rendering step.

> Inability to minimize to tray on Linux

Birdtray [1] works perfectly for this. I think the only thing you have to is create a .desktop file that opens birdtray that opens Thunderbird automatically.

> Inability to easily edit the from address

There is a feature for this for quite a while. In the write message window, just click the down arrow next to 'From' and either choose a pre-configured identity [2] or click "Customize From Address" which allows you to freely edit the from address.

> And TB still doesn't "remember" which -from- addresses are used by which -to- address.

Not sure what you mean, but there is a 'Reply from this identity when delivery headers match' config in account settings. I have never used it, but it allows you to automatically choose an identity when you are replying to a email from a particular address/domain.

[1] https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray

[2] You can customize as many identities as possible for each server.

You could try birdtray and have a combined calendar and email tray icon. You would kill two birds with one stone if you know what I mean :)

Take a look at Birdtray

There is standalone Qt app https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray that achieves that by parsing data from Thunderberd's profile.

Thanks for the suggestion, but since the feature landed for Windows for a while now, I would prefer a native solution. Add-ons tend to break after TB major releases and Birdtray has also its problems like Wayland support.

I recently came across Birdtray. It shows unread emails and I can click on it to hide/show Thunderbird. However, if I click again to show the Thunderbird window, I must check the 'Always On Top' box on the Thunderbird window again. If I minimise Thunderbird from it's own minimise window setting - it retains the 'Always On Top' setting - but then takes up space in the panel.

Birdtray* did the trick for me! It's quite useful and the difference from a proper tray integration is almost inoticeable! I have tried kdocker but didn't like it.

releases: https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray/releases/tag/v1.9.0