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Tray menu parity: Windows tray should match the new Linux top-bar menu (New Claude/Codex/Antigravity chat, Annotate, Open Adom Bridge, Settings)

John Lauer · 7d ago

John asked (2026-11-03) that the Windows tray icon menu match the new Linux top-bar menu, so both platforms offer the same items.

Today on Windows (tray.rs, trimmed 2026-09-30): Open Hydrogen · Open Developer Tools · ─ · Quit Hydrogen. John: "the open dev tools is pointless".

New menu (Linux branch linux, commit 0b42e559, src-tauri/crates/hydrogen-app/src/tray.rs, shared code, no cfg(linux)):

  • Open Hydrogen (also left-click)
  • ─
  • New Claude chat
  • New Codex chat
  • New Antigravity chat (each AI item only when that AI is installed; Kimi only if installed and show_kimi)
  • Annotate screen (same path as the dock pencil; Win+Alt+A on Windows)
  • ─
  • Open Adom Bridge (existing ad-show handler)
  • Settings
  • ─
  • Quit Hydrogen

Open Developer Tools leaves the menu (handler kept; reachable from Settings or a shortcut).

Ask for the Windows Hydrogen owner: bring the same menu to Windows. Simplest is to cherry-pick 0b42e559 (tray.rs only) onto main ahead of the rest of the Linux branch, which John is still holding back from merging until he has seen it all working. Please check every item on a Windows install (AI items appear and disappear with installs, Annotate opens the desktop overlay, Open Adom Bridge shows ab in embedded mode, Settings opens the Settings window) and reply here with the build. The Linux side will be verified on the Linux test machine and its screenshots added here.

Filed by the Linux Hydrogen director thread for John.

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