On Saturday 13 June 2009 16:54:19 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Friday 29 May 2009 15:04:21 Zero3 wrote:
> > Matthew Toseland skrev:
> > >> 3. Add a 'pause' feature. (131 votes)
> > > Now 140 votes.
> > >> Remarkably high ranking, I wonder what proportion of our users use
> > >> online
> > >> games?
> >
> > I can fix a Windows helper to do this (in the same style as the other
> > helpers in the wininstaller).
> >
> > Obviously this once again raises the question of whether this kind of
> > stuff ought to be done cross-platform or platform specific.
> >
> > In any way - if nobody finds time to make a cross-platform solution in
> > the next couple of months, I offer to make a Windows solution. This will
> > require the actual "pause" feature done in Freenet itself first of
> > course (unless you simply want to stop the node completely instead).
>
> You are proposing to implement a system tray icon for Windows? We already
> have one for Mac, so it may make sense simply to ship system specific tray
> icons, to minimise overheads (maybe a few megs for a good native applet, and
> it could start/stop Freenet as well as pausing it ...). One cross platform
> applet is not going to happen, because until very recently Mac doesn't
> support the java system tray API.
>
> Now we just need somebody to implement a nice Linux system tray icon for
> Freenet. Any takers? C for x86 would be fine, but Python or something similar
> for wider support might be better?
>
It appears there are good reasons to implement the Linux version in Java. See
the discussion and some source code archived on the relevant bug:
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=3220
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