How to add text to ubuntu app indicator with with NW.js (or electron)?

Question

I know that it is possible to create a tray icon for a node-webkit application like so:

var tray = new gui.Tray({ title: 'Tray', icon: 'img/icon.png' });

but on Ubuntu the title won't be displayed. Is there anyway to achieve this?

I would like to use the tray icon to display dynamic information, which would be really annoying to do by changing the icon itself.

I would also be fine with using electron, if there is a way to implement it there.

EDIT:

For those interested in participating: I created some issues on github for electron and for chromium.

Malapropos

Still no change on this on. If you want to change this, please upvote the electron issue linked above in the question and this new chrome issue: bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/… – Malapropos

Answer 1

This seems to be working for me with electron, see this issue

Electron 0.37.2., Ubuntu 15.10

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