tray icons

[p00f]

I'm willing to work on this, can you tell me how to start? I found https://docs.rs/stray/0.1.3/stray/message/tray/struct.StatusNotifierItem.html which returns the icon name and/or the icon pixmap, how do I actually draw these?

[MaxVerevkin]

Hi.

It looks like stray uses tokio, so the first step would be to start using tokio ourselves (which I used to do at some point but removed (91381b2) because it wasn't really necessary at that point).

Then you can create a tray module, in which you will keep track of the tray state.

To draw an icon, you will need to create a Surface, and then

cairo_ctx.set_source_surface(&surface, x, y).unwrap();
cairo_ctx.paint().unwrap();

[p00f]

I see, thanks

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[MaxVerevkin]

So, a high-level plan can be

1. Transition to tokio.
2. Add an option to enable the tray and just render the icons.
3. Add config options to customize the appearance of those icons.
4. Implement menus, clicks, popups.

[drindr]

Is there any progress?

[MaxVerevkin]

Is there any progress?

As you probably can see, no. Working on this is not my priority, but if someone submits a PR I'll be happy to review it.

[MaxVerevkin]

So, a high-level plan can be

1. Transition to tokio.
2. Add an option to enable the tray and just render the icons.
3. Add config options to customize the appearance of those icons.
4. Implement menus, clicks, popups.

This is outdated. I do not plan to switch to tokio, and communicating with dbus can be done without async for example with rustbus.