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are any system tray icon RFEs planed for 6uN?
Posted:
Jan 6, 2008 5:35 AM
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the current system tray icon implementation is not as good as it could/should be.
- it uses the heavyweight java.awt.PopupMenu which looks good on windows but very bad on linux (I haven't tested it on mac)
- no icon support in the menu (->java.awt.MenuItem)
- SVG is also not supported (at least it didn't worked as I tried it the last time)
there are some hacks which try to use Swing popup capabilities, but all of them have also problems in the cross platform area.
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Re: are any system tray icon RFEs planed for 6uN?
Posted:
Jan 6, 2008 8:06 AM
in response to: mbien
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As far as I know no API additions/modifications are planned for update releases, so these will probably have to wait until JDK7.
I also don't understand why they used AWT components, making things so ugly, complex and hard again :-/
lg Clemens
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Re: are any system tray icon RFEs planed for 6uN?
Posted:
Jan 11, 2008 5:55 AM
in response to: linuxhippy
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Hello mbien
The fact TrayIcon wasn't designed to work with JPopupMenu's is very pity
and I am really sorry about that
it is clearly our fault
I fixed several bugs for 6uN to enable JPopupMenu for TrayIcon
and since 6uN early access is available and trayIcon is a known problem
I'll write a blog with all details next week to get the early feedback
I'll post the link here
Thanks
alexp
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Re: are any system tray icon RFEs planed for 6uN?
Posted:
Jan 12, 2008 4:09 PM
in response to: alexfromsun
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great to hear that!
since 6uN is the consumer release, things like a good system tray support are essential features.
I am looking forward to read your blog entry 
Thanks,
michael
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Re: are any system tray icon RFEs planed for 6uN?
Posted:
Jan 26, 2008 2:32 PM
in response to: alexfromsun
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> I'll write a blog with all details next week to get
> the early feedback
week is over and still no blog entry
just in case you forgot about it 
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