Windows: Will the new Google Chat PWA for Chrome ever have system tray support? : gsuite
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/11
About 2 years after Google switched every Google Hangouts user over to Google Chat, I still wonder about [Wayback/Archive] Will the new Google Chat PWA for Chrome ever have system tray support? : gsuite:
Chrome _right now_ can be sustained as a background process with the Chrome-ball in the system tray. This is the vehicle with which Hangouts remains open at all time, so why not Chat, too?
I’m left with no option but to have Chat running on a mobile device so I have always on access. Perhaps this is the angle. I nunno.
Your support page link I’ve seen already and it doesn’t answer the Why question.
It is absolutely a bizzarotown implementation.
Hopefully [Wayback/Archive] Unofficial Google Chat App | Apps | Electron will help me; it does get regular updates and (Electron) is cross-platform.
For Windows:
- [Wayback/Archive] Latest Release · ankurk91/google-chat-electron
- [Wayback/Archive] Releases · ankurk91/google-chat-electron
Search queries and results (it was remarkably hard to phrase searches to return relevant results):
- [Wayback/Archive] chat google notifications in windows system tray – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] “Windows” “Google Chat” “tray” “notifications” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] Unofficial Google Chat App | Apps | Electron
- [Wayback/Archive] Google Chat replaced Hangouts Chrome extension. This sucks! You completely destroyed how I use your chat! : google
- [Wayback/Archive] “google chat” notifications in windows system “tray” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] How can I make Google Chats minimize to the system tray, like hangouts did? – classic Hangouts and Google Chat Community
–jeroen
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
Leave a comment