Modified auto hide feature #4569

Made auto hide on startup and added an info masseage on first connection

src/gui/res/SettingsDialogBase.ui

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
     <width>368</width>
-    <height>354</height>
+    <height>377</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="windowTitle">
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
       <item row="5" column="0">
        <widget class="QCheckBox" name="m_pCheckBoxAutoHide">
         <property name="text">
-         <string>&amp;Hide when server/client starts</string>
+         <string>&amp;Hide on startup</string>
         </property>
        </widget>
       </item>

src/gui/src/MainWindow.cpp

@@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ void MainWindow::open()
 {
 	createTrayIcon();
 
-	showNormal();
+	if (!autoHide()) {
+		showNormal();
+	}
 
 	m_VersionChecker.checkLatest();
 
@@ -399,6 +401,17 @@ void MainWindow::updateStateFromLogLine(const QString &line)
 		line.contains("watchdog status: ok"))
 	{
 		setSynergyState(synergyConnected);
+
+		if (!appConfig().startedBefore()) {
+				QMessageBox::information(
+					this, "Synergy",
+					tr("Synergy is now connected, You can close the "
+					"config window. Synergy will remain connected in "
+					"the background."));
+
+			appConfig().setStartedBefore(true);
+			appConfig().saveSettings();
+		}
 	}
 
 	checkFingerprint(line);
@@ -446,12 +459,15 @@ void MainWindow::checkFingerprint(const QString& line)
 	}
 }
 
-void MainWindow::autoHide()
+bool MainWindow::autoHide()
 {
 	if ((appConfig().processMode() == Desktop) &&
 		appConfig().getAutoHide()) {
 		hide();
+		return true;
 	}
+
+	return false;
 }
 
 void MainWindow::clearLog()
@@ -568,10 +584,6 @@ void MainWindow::startSynergy()
 		QString command(app + " " + args.join(" "));
 		m_IpcClient.sendCommand(command, appConfig().elevateMode());
 	}
-
-	appConfig().setStartedBefore(true);
-	appConfig().saveSettings();
-
 }
 
 bool MainWindow::clientArgs(QStringList& args, QString& app)
@@ -795,7 +807,7 @@ void MainWindow::setSynergyState(qSynergyState state)
 		}
 
 		setStatus(tr("Synergy is running."));
-		autoHide();
+
 		break;
 	}
 	case synergyConnecting:

src/gui/src/MainWindow.h

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class MainWindow : public QMainWindow, public Ui::MainWindowBase
 		void updateEdition();
 		QString getProfileRootForArg();
 		void checkFingerprint(const QString& line);
-		void autoHide();
+		bool autoHide();
 
 	private:
 		QSettings& m_Settings;

src/gui/src/SettingsDialog.cpp

@@ -50,11 +50,14 @@ SettingsDialog::SettingsDialog(QWidget* parent, AppConfig& config) :
 	m_pCheckBoxLogToFile->setChecked(appConfig().logToFile());
 	m_pLineEditLogFilename->setText(appConfig().logFilename());
 	setIndexFromItemData(m_pComboLanguage, appConfig().language());
+	m_pCheckBoxAutoHide->setChecked(appConfig().getAutoHide());
 
 #if defined(Q_OS_WIN)
 	m_SuppressElevateWarning = true;
 	m_pCheckBoxElevateMode->setChecked(appConfig().elevateMode());
 	m_SuppressElevateWarning = false;
+
+	m_pCheckBoxAutoHide->hide();
 #else
 	// elevate checkbox is only useful on ms windows.
 	m_pCheckBoxElevateMode->hide();