Hi, there is a change in dock icon behavior from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1. Previously, if you closed the OpenVPN Connect main window (using the X), it stayed open in the background via the menu bar item, but the dock icon disappeared. With 3.3.1, the dock icon stays there, and the only way to remove it is to completely quit OpenVPN Connect. Is it possible to restore the previous behavior? Thanks! (I've reverted to 3.3.0 for now because I don't want the icon permanently in my dock.)

Hello stefandesu, This is a case of "impossible to please everyone". We changed this behavior like this just because people were asking us to change it. Now you're asking to change it back. Sorry. The way it is now is the way it is now. You may put in a feature request at https://openvpn.net/support and if there's enough people asking for it then we'll consider it. Kind regards, Johan

I second this! And I didn't find the "suggest new feature" section. I'd also like to add that many programs have the option of showing or not the dock icon, such as OneDrive (picture below). I find that's the case for most softwares one can access through the menu bar (which is the case of OpenVPN Connect...). That would be the "possible to please everyone" solution, in my opinion. [img]https://filestore.community.support.microsoft.com/api/images/c79d7e72-04bd-4d48-ba30-dbec7f8b7c28?upload=true[/img]

I just registered to report the same issue. This is my first post on the forum. :)

[quote]This is a case of "impossible to please everyone". We changed this behavior like this just because people were asking us to change it. Now you're asking to change it back. Sorry. The way it is now is the way it is now.[/quote] You've added a preference for "colorful" vs "monochrome" menu icon, but a "Hide app icon from Dock" option isn't reasonable?

[quote=openvpn_inc post_id=102634 time=1634277910 user_id=52935] Hello stefandesu, This is a case of "impossible to please everyone". We changed this behavior like this just because people were asking us to change it. Now you're asking to change it back. Sorry. The way it is now is the way it is now. You may put in a feature request at https://openvpn.net/support and if there's enough people asking for it then we'll consider it. Kind regards, Johan [/quote] This is a pretty crap response from a user perspective. In general you don't want to take away options from users, but rather provide users with additional options. Not only that, there's absolutely NOTHING about it in the release notes, which AT THE VERY LEAST would have saved the time of at least one user who now has spent the time looking at the forums for your garbage response.

For anyone else who want to follow this, I've opened a support ticket: https://support.openvpn.com/hc/en-us/requests/394476

i was also facing the same issue

[quote=openvpn_inc post_id=102634 time=1634277910 user_id=52935] Hello stefandesu, This is a case of "impossible to please everyone". We changed this behavior like this just because people were asking us to change it. Now you're asking to change it back. Sorry. The way it is now is the way it is now. You may put in a feature request at https://openvpn.net/support and if there's enough people asking for it then we'll consider it. Kind regards, Johan [/quote] Hello, I appreciate the reply, but I disagree. As others have stated, it's possible to please everyone by making it an option. Shouldn't be a big deal either; many other apps have it. I won't open a support ticket since blinkingline has already done it. Thanks!

[quote=openvpn_inc post_id=102634 time=1634277910 user_id=52935] Hello stefandesu, This is a case of "impossible to please everyone". We changed this behavior like this just because people were asking us to change it. Now you're asking to change it back. Sorry. The way it is now is the way it is now. You may put in a feature request at https://openvpn.net/support and if there's enough people asking for it then we'll consider it. Kind regards, Johan [/quote] Are you kidding me???? There's a real easy solution to this, it's called "give us an option in settings". These people I swear...

Anyone have a link for 3.3.0 or even 3.2.x or something?

Version 3.3.1: Dock icon doesn't disappear

openvpn_inc

Hello everyone,

OpenVPN Connect v3.4.0 for macOS that is out now introduces a configurable setting for the dock icon, as well as native support for Apple's chipset.

Kind regards,
Johan

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