Show a 😽 startup indicator (tray icon / splash)#40
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The cat overlay is a frameless Tool window with no taskbar/tray presence, so until now the app gave no visible sign it had started (a window only appeared when a settings dialog was opened). Add a startup indicator: - A 😽 system-tray icon with a tooltip, a one-shot "Your cat is here" notification and a small menu (Chat / Reminder… / Ollama… / Quit). - When no system tray is available, fall back to a brief opaque splash card (😽 + name) so there is still a startup window. - Also sets the application window icon to the cat. Tests cover the icon and splash-card builders.
Drop the system-tray icon, splash card and startup notification. Instead make the cat overlay a normal Qt.Window (was Qt.Tool) so it gets an entry in the taskbar / program list at startup — with the "mycat" title and a 😽 window icon, matching how myEmojiboard appears. The application icon is set too so the dialogs share it.
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Changed approach per feedback: dropped the tray icon + splash + startup notification, and instead made the cat overlay a normal |
Both mycat and other python apps launch as "main.py", so Qt set the same WM_CLASS for all of them and the taskbar grouped mycat with e.g. myEmojiboard. Set the application/desktop name to "mycat" (drives the X11 WM_CLASS) plus RESOURCE_NAME for the instance, so the window's WM_CLASS is now "mycat", "mycat".
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Summary
The cat overlay is a frameless
Qt::Toolwindow with no taskbar or tray presence, so the app gave no visible sign it had started — a window only appeared once you opened a settings dialog. This adds a startup indication with a 😽 cat icon.offscreenplatform.Test plan
python -m pytestpasses (icon + splash-card builders covered).