Add Desktop actions

[Vendicated]

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It'd be really cool to add some useful Linux Desktop actions here (all the current entries are gnome default entries)

The main one I can think of right now is a Vesktop recovery page with some troubleshooting tools. If anyone has more ideas, please bring them up here

https://www.electron.build/app-builder-lib.interface.linuxdesktopfile#desktopactions

[wingio]

Restart?

[Luracasmus]

Deafen (checkbox), Mute (checkbox), Stream/End stream and Leave call could be useful, as well as maybe some or all of the options available through the system tray icon except Open

Setting SingleMainWindow=true in the desktop entry should also hint to remove the New window option (as it does nothing useful afaik?)

[Vendicated]

Deafen (checkbox), Mute (checkbox), Stream/End stream and Leave call could be useful, as well as maybe some or all of the options available through the system tray icon except Open

Don't think any of these really fit there, we just need a better tray with voice indicator & actions

Setting SingleMainWindow=true in the desktop entry should also hint to remove the New window option (as it does nothing useful afaik?)

thanks for the tip, I'll test it later

[ahydronous]

I looked into this into the past, you cannot do this unless you manually code parameters you can send to the Discord (well, Vesktop) binary. The only other way is to use xdotool (Xorg) or ydotool (Wayland) to send a key combination to the Discord window, but it must be foregrounded (= stolen focus) for a split second to do this.

Also, there is a bunch of other stuff that is missing in the .desktop entry, I will open a separate issue

[ahydronous]

For future reference, if the possibility comes along to do this, this is the way you'd add it to the .desktop entry:

[Desktop Entry]
<YOUR OTHER STUFF HERE>
Actions=deafen;direct-messages;
[Desktop Action deafen]
Name=Deafen
Exec=vesktop --deafen
[Desktop Action direct-messages]
Name=Direct Messages
Exec=vesktop --dm

It would be an interesting thought to code / expose these things through Vesktop. I imagine Windows and macOS could also benefit from having application hover / context entries like this. And like you mentioned, it would allow tray icon improvements as well.

Actually, looking a bit more, you have x-scheme URL that can be loaded like discord --url "discord://-/channels/@me" for DMs. But testing it, it only works when launching Vesktop / Discord, it doesn't load it in the current session / window.