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Provide a D-Bus based StatusNotifierItem instead of a GtkStatusIcon #50

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aperezdc opened this issue Mar 22, 2017 · 0 comments
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The current tray icon, which uses GtkStatusIcon is supported only under X11 because it uses XEmbed. On the other hand, KDE's StatusNotifier specification works over D-Bus and can work without X11. Many DEs support have varying degrees of support for StatusNotifier:

There are a couple of options for implementing this:

  • Ubuntu's libindicator, which does not seem to come with GObject-Introspection support, and makes it difficult to use from Python.
  • @jjk-jacky's statusnotifier which is a pure C GObject library and GObject-Introspection support. It is even packaged in some distros, and it can always be bundled in Flatpak builds.
  • Rolling our own implementation in Python which uses D-Bus directly.

I am leaning towards using statusnotifier.

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