macOS window list in the dock icon menu.

xmichelo 0

Hi all.

We recently ported our application from Qt 5 to Qt 6, and noticed the following on the macOS version: the application's dock icon menu now includes the list of windows. which was not displayed with Qt 5.

Now the problem is that we have a QSystemTrayIcon in our application, and it creates this ugly "Item-0" entry in the window list.

Is there a way to:

get rid of the window list in the dock menu (qt 5 style) ?
get rid of the Item-0 entry alone?

This seems unrelated to any menu we set via QMenu::setAsDockMenu().

Here is a minimal example showing the issue. The code compiles both on Qt 5 and 6, and the window list only appears in the Qt 6 version.

Thanks!

Xavier

GGlowack

I have faced a similar problem for some time. Decided to experiment with Loaders and loading SystemTrayIcon asynchronously.
Surprisingly this solved "Item-0" issue for me.


ApplicationWindow {
    id: root
...
    visible: true

    Component {
        id: trayComponent
        SystemTrayIcon {
            id: systemIcon
        }
    }
    
    Loader{
        sourceComponent: trayComponent
        asynchronous: true
        visible: status == Loader.Ready
    }

ShrademnThill

Hi,

I also encounter this issue and I solved it by delaying the show:

QTimer::singleShot(250, this, [this]
{
	trayIcon.show();
});