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Gnome and Tray [message #445338]

Tue, 02 November 2004 23:45

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: henning.odense.kollegienet.dk

Hi all.

Right now I am developing a cross platform app. that should reside in the
systemtray. This works fine in windows and in KDE, but I can't manage to get
it working in Gnome. (it looks like Gnome doesn't have at systemtray)

My question is. Is it possible to get information from SWT is a systemtray
isn't available in the window manager?

There is no exception raised when I do a display.getSystemTray() in either
gnome or some other windowmanager that hasn't a systemtray.

/Henning.

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Re: Gnome and Tray [message #445344 is a reply to message #445338]

Wed, 03 November 2004 14:44

Jeff Myers

Messages: 396
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Henning Skov wrote:
> Hi all.
>
>
>
> Right now I am developing a cross platform app. that should reside in the
> systemtray. This works fine in windows and in KDE, but I can't manage to get
> it working in Gnome. (it looks like Gnome doesn't have at systemtray)
>
>
>
> My question is. Is it possible to get information from SWT is a systemtray
> isn't available in the window manager?
>
>
>
> There is no exception raised when I do a display.getSystemTray() in either
> gnome or some other windowmanager that hasn't a systemtray.
>
>
>
> /Henning.
>
>
Hi Henning,

Gnome does have the equivalent of a system tray, but it is optional that
the user have it shown anywhere on screen. In Gnome, the applet is
called Panel Notification Area, and is commonly found under
Utility->Notification Area from the Add to Panel menu.

I haven't used the systemTray api, so I don't have any recommendations
for detecting whether it is available or not. Just thought you'd want
to know about how it is relevant to Gnome.

- Jeff

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Re: Gnome and Tray [message #445371 is a reply to message #445338]

Thu, 04 November 2004 14:27

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Henning,

There is not an api currently for determining whether a system tray is
available, but there probably should be, so I've logged
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77826 .

Grant

"Henning Skov" <henning@odense.kollegienet.dk> wrote in message
news:cm9676$506$1@eclipse.org...
> Hi all.
>
>
>
> Right now I am developing a cross platform app. that should reside in the
> systemtray. This works fine in windows and in KDE, but I can't manage to
get
> it working in Gnome. (it looks like Gnome doesn't have at systemtray)
>
>
>
> My question is. Is it possible to get information from SWT is a systemtray
> isn't available in the window manager?
>
>
>
> There is no exception raised when I do a display.getSystemTray() in either
> gnome or some other windowmanager that hasn't a systemtray.
>
>
>
> /Henning.
>
>

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Re: Gnome and Tray [message #446720 is a reply to message #445371]

Wed, 01 December 2004 15:49

Max

Messages: 28
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Which is a duplicate of #64923 :-)

Henning, please consider voting for
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=64923

In the meantime you can use this simple workaround:

/**
* This workaround determines if the underlying platform supports
* a system tray
*/
public static boolean platformHasTray()
{
String pf = SWT.getPlatform();
return (pf.equals("win32") || pf.equals("gtk")) ? true : false;
}

Regards /Max

In article <cmde7f$75o$1@eclipse.org>, grant_gayed@ca.ibm.com says...
> Hi Henning,
>
> There is not an api currently for determining whether a system tray is
> available, but there probably should be, so I've logged
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77826 .
>
> Grant
>
> "Henning Skov" <henning@odense.kollegienet.dk> wrote in message
> news:cm9676$506$1@eclipse.org...
> > Hi all.
> >
> >
> >
> > Right now I am developing a cross platform app. that should reside in the
> > systemtray. This works fine in windows and in KDE, but I can't manage to
> get
> > it working in Gnome. (it looks like Gnome doesn't have at systemtray)
> >
> >
> >
> > My question is. Is it possible to get information from SWT is a systemtray
> > isn't available in the window manager?
> >
> >
> >
> > There is no exception raised when I do a display.getSystemTray() in either
> > gnome or some other windowmanager that hasn't a systemtray.

--
Regards Max rotvel AT bolignet-aarhus DOT dk

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