Hello Vincent, I tried to fiddle something together for the Unity "appindicator" tray. It conflicts with your changes in the "gui" branch, and it's not completely working:
https://github.com/binwiederhier/syncany/commit/d772bdae76fee8b3f12cd9ed23c9c25d876c6719 Since Unity removed SystemTray support entirely now, this solution is (like in 2011) using an additional Python script to instantiate the tray. I added a TrayIconFactory to create a tray depending on the desktop environment (Linux/Unity -> UnityTrayIcon; others: DefaultTrayIcon). The DefaultTrayIcon is your code; the UnityTrayIcon starts the python script. The communication between the python script and the Java code is via the daemon websocket, so: 1) unitytray.py (WS client) -> daemon WS Server (forwards) -> UnityTrayIcon (WS Client) --> e.g. for events {'action': 'tray_menu_item_clicked', 'command': 'NEW'} 2) and UnityTrayIcon (WS Client) -> daemon WS Server (forwards) -> unitytray.py (WS Client) --> e.g. for events {"text":"All files in sync","action":"update_tray_status_text"} *Issues:* *a) Python:* Introducing a new language (Python) usually comes with issues (deployment, dependencies, IPC, etc.). Any pure-Java alternatives for Appindicator support are welcome. I have not found any back in 2011, and I couldn't find any now... Ideas? *b) Indirect communication: *The code is nowhere near stable, but the communication works quite well. However, I'm not sure that the indirection via the daemon WS Server is such a good idea. Any thoughts? Maybe the UnityTrayIcon should simply start its own WS Server and let unitytray.py connect to it. *c) Deployment: *The Python script obviously must be put somewhere when deploying the application (e.g. in "bin/"). This is currently not done. The script only works if "Launcher.java" is started from Eclipse. *d) Python script resources*: The Python script needs the same resources (tray.png, etc.) as the DefaultTrayIcon, but it cannot access the resources from a JAR. That means the deployment must include the extracted resources somewhere. *e) Event abstraction: *Both DefaultTrayIcon and UnityTrayIcon should fire events to a central source, such that onExitClicked(), etc. only has to be implemented once. @Vincent: You obviously don't have to take my entire code, but I hope it helps with the Tray stuff. Best Philipp
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