feat: add system tray with native left-click support on Linux#586
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Restores the system tray (added in cinnyapp#166, reverted in cinnyapp#312) and ports it to Tauri v2. The cinnyapp#312 revert was a Flatpak/single-instance build issue; this change adds only the tray and does not reintroduce single instance. Behaviour: - Tray icon with a context menu ("Show/Hide Cinny" and "Quit"). - Close-to-tray: closing the window hides it to the tray instead of quitting the app; it can be reopened from the tray. - Left-clicking the icon toggles the window. Platform handling: - Windows/macOS use Tauri's built-in tray (the tray-icon feature). - On Linux, Tauri's tray-icon backend (libayatana-appindicator) does not forward left-click/Activate events to the application, so the menu is the only interaction. To get proper left-click-to-toggle, the StatusNotifierItem is implemented directly via ksni (the approach Qt apps such as Nextcloud use). The tray-icon feature is therefore limited to non-Linux desktops, which also keeps libappindicator out of the Linux build.
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What
Restores the system tray and ports it to Tauri v2.
A tray was previously added in #166 (closing the request in #65) and reverted in #312. Per the #312 description, the revert was caused by a Flatpak build failing because of the single instance feature that shipped alongside it — "removing system tray until issues with this are fixed" — i.e. the tray itself was not the problem. This PR brings the tray back on its own (without single instance) and rebuilds it for Tauri v2.
Behaviour
Platform handling
tray-iconfeature).tray-iconbackend uses libayatana-appindicator, whose GTK implementation never forwards a left-click / SNIActivateevent to the app; only the context menu works. To provide proper left-click-to-toggle, the StatusNotifierItem is implemented directly withksni— the same native-SNI approach Qt apps (e.g. Nextcloud) use. Thetray-iconfeature is scoped to non-Linux desktop targets, which also keepslibappindicatorout of the Linux build.Notes
// mod menu;(macOS application menu) is left commented out as before; this PR does not touch it.