2 little changes

[katschuba]

Hi,
first of all: Very nice tool!

2 ideas for improvement:
1st: Could you make it that the name of the game comes up first, and then the console I'm playing it on? So others can see at a glance on the memberlist which game I'm playing.

2nd: MacOS. Coloring the icon black, when the menubar is in daylight mode, so that it fits to all the other icons 😁

[pelicanfuture]

Yeah, I also support your 1st idea as well, it would make the status be similar to the built-in Xbox Live and PSN statuses where the game shows up first, then the console you're playing on when you click on the discord profile.

[MCMi460]

As far as I know, the first is impossible with Discord's current method of rich presence applications. The name of the "Playing" status is taken from the application's name, and it would be a bit too much for me to create over 5,000 separate developer applications for each Nintendo Switch game.
As for the second one, I'll certainly work on that. I believe there is a native MacOS method for dynamic status bar icons, but I'm not certain that PyQt5 supports it. Worst case scenario, I'll just make a separate icon and load it depending on the system theme.
I'll keep this issue open until I finish the second change.

[MCMi460]

Should work properly now.

• There is an issue with detecting transparent menubars, but that would be more of a hassle than I'm willing to deal with.
• Another thing to note is that the icon is not dynamic if the system theme is changed mid-process. It will require an app restart as the check only occurs at startup.

Please comment on this issue if any problems arise.
Thank you!

[katschuba]

Thanks man, very nice!
When can we expect the new release-version to download?

[MCMi460]

I still have a few things to touch-up on, but probably on Friday.
If you want, you can always build to an app using the scripts/build.sh script on the development branch.

[samuelthomas2774]

1st: Could you make it that the name of the game comes up first, [...]? So others can see at a glance on the memberlist which game I'm playing.

As far as I know, the first is impossible with Discord's current method of rich presence applications. The name of the "Playing" status is taken from the application's name, and it would be a bit too much for me to create over 5,000 separate developer applications for each Nintendo Switch game.

I've created Discord applications for most Nintendo-published games: https://github.com/samuelthomas2774/nxapi/tree/main/src/discord/titles. @MCMi460 I don't mind you using these as well; pypresence seems to support disconnecting/reconnecting to Discord with another client ID. Anyone can create an issue on my repo to suggest any other titles (only for more popular games though, like @MCMi460 I'm not creating 100s/1000s of Discord applications).

Discord actually fetches the application name and sets it as the activity name locally, so with a modified/custom client (e.g. discord.js) we could just pass the name to Discord. There's also an API for this but it's restricted to Xbox Live, PlayStation and a few others.

[MCMi460]

I've created Discord applications for most Nintendo-published games: https://github.com/samuelthomas2774/nxapi/tree/main/src/discord/titles. @MCMi460 I don't mind you using these as well [...]

Ah, thank you @samuelthomas2774! I'll add this soon.

Discord actually fetches the application name and sets it as the activity name locally, so with a modified/custom client (e.g. discord.js) we could just pass the name to Discord. There's also an API for this but it's restricted to Xbox Live, PlayStation and a few others.

I'd prefer not to attempt to bypass Discord's decisions. If I really wanted to do something like this, I'd instead just bundle a bare-bones self-bot script inside NSO-RPC, log into the user's account, and make the activities.write API calls manually. That's very interesting, though, thanks for telling me!

[samuelthomas2774]

I've created Discord applications for most Nintendo-published games: https://github.com/samuelthomas2774/nxapi/tree/main/src/discord/titles. @MCMi460 I don't mind you using these as well [...]

Ah, thank you @samuelthomas2774! I'll add this soon.

I have a script to export these as JSON/CSV, so they can be fetched at runtime, as they are written in TypeScript to allow for custom behaviour (just remember to cache the data for a few days if you do this 😄). I might change the format slightly so don't use these links yet.

URL	-
https://nxapi.ta.fancy.org.uk/data/discord-titles.json	JSON
https://nxapi.ta.fancy.org.uk/data/discord-titles-compact.json	JSON without Discord activity configuration
https://nxapi.ta.fancy.org.uk/data/discord-clients.json	JSON with Discord app data
https://nxapi.ta.fancy.org.uk/data/discord-titles.csv	CSV
https://nxapi.ta.fancy.org.uk/data/discord-titles-compact.csv	CSV without Discord activity configuration

I'd prefer not to attempt to bypass Discord's decisions. If I really wanted to do something like this, I'd instead just bundle a bare-bones self-bot script inside NSO-RPC, log into the user's account, and make the activities.write API calls manually. That's very interesting, though, thanks for telling me!

Same. I tried using the activities.write OAuth scope but it just rejects it (after allowing me to authorise it) - hopefully Discord will open this API soon, it would also mean this would work without having Discord open, and also for other non-desktop platforms (e.g. mobile games).

[katschuba]

@MCMi460 Installed the new version. Works fine so far. 👍
But could you change the behaviour of the titlebar-buttons?
Currently the menubar icon is only visible when hitting the close button of the settings window.
I would prefer red-button (close) for quitting the app and yellow-button (minimize) for minimizing to the menubar.
And in addition it would be cool if when minimized, the app is hidden from dock and only visible in the menubar.

[jrub1]

+1ing the idea of the app being hidden on the dock! Great app so far, thank you!