Hi Stepan, Thanks for the notification :)
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:18:47PM -0400, Stepan Salenikovich wrote:
> Hi,
> This was a repeatedly requested feature and it made sense so we finally merged
> a patch to add systray icon support to gnome-ring.
>
> I'll copy paste my commit message which explains the implementation since it
> is of interest to package maintainers or anyone compiling from source:
>
> This adds an icon in the notification areas (systray) by default.
> The icon also has a popup menu which allows the user to show or hide
> the main widow and to quit Ring.
>
> It uses 2 systray icon implementations:
> - AppIndicator from Canonical
> - GtkStatusIcon from Gtk, but deprecated
After some investigation, it turns out that AppIndicator is a pain to
support on Archlinux (it's not in the official repositories [1], and
brings a lot of dependencies). I wonder if the situation is similar for
other non-Ubuntu distros.
On the other hand, GtkStatusIcon is provided by default with GTK3,
although it indeed seems deprecated (gtk/deprecated/gtkstatusicon.h).
Is there any alternative to these two implementations? The documentation
on GtkStatusIcon [2] is a bit vague:
GtkStatusIcon has been deprecated in 3.14. You should consider using
notifications or more modern platform-specific APIs instead. GLib
provides the GNotification API which works well with GtkApplication.
Baptiste
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libappindicator/
[2] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkStatusIcon.html
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