KDE SystemTray

[Paranoid]

hi all!

i am KDE-only user, so i dont know if it works in other desktops, but in my KDE box new Java 6 features dont work.
two features i tested - SystemTray and Desktop. nothing works. there are bugs 6448876, 6486393, 6490730 in bugs.sun.com, but seems that Sun dont want to fix it until Java7 - 1.5 years?

is there any other way to invoke KDE-apps or KDE-tray from Java?

[Stefan Endrullis]

Hi,

well, in the first feature list of Java 6, I have seen, it was mentioned that system tray icons are only supported for Windows. Seeing that
Java should be platfrom independent, this is not glorious for Sun. But it seems that Sun has changed this fact. I hope once it will work for
all OS.

But currently I'm using an external lib for the system tray named "jdic" (https://jdic.dev.java.net/). I think it's the most popular library
for system tray icons. It's also platform independent and the project is already some years old.

You can find another implementation of the system tray icon in the project "tvbrowser" (http://tvbrowser.org/). They have written their own
tray icon classes. It's also OS independent.

I hope I could help you.

Regards,
Stefan

Post by Paranoid
hi all!
i am KDE-only user, so i dont know if it works in other desktops, but in my KDE box new Java 6 features dont work.
two features i tested - SystemTray and Desktop. nothing works. there are bugs 6448876, 6486393, 6490730 in bugs.sun.com, but seems that Sun dont want to fix it until Java7 - 1.5 years?
is there any other way to invoke KDE-apps or KDE-tray from Java?
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[Paranoid]

thanx alot, i will try tvbrowser! but jdic is not platform-independent, i cant run it on x86_64 machine, it builded only for x86. may be there is way to build it for x64?
i know one more lib in qt-jambi, but it is too heavy...

Post by Stefan Endrullis
Hi,
well, in the first feature list of Java 6, I have seen, it was mentioned that system tray icons are only supported for Windows. Seeing that
Java should be platfrom independent, this is not glorious for Sun. But it seems that Sun has changed this fact. I hope once it will work for
all OS.
But currently I'm using an external lib for the system tray named "jdic" (https://jdic.dev.java.net/). I think it's the most popular library
for system tray icons. It's also platform independent and the project is already some years old.
You can find another implementation of the system tray icon in the project "tvbrowser" (http://tvbrowser.org/). They have written their own
tray icon classes. It's also OS independent.
I hope I could help you.
Regards,
Stefan

Post by Paranoid
hi all!
i am KDE-only user, so i dont know if it works in other desktops, but in my KDE box new Java 6 features dont work.
two features i tested - SystemTray and Desktop. nothing works. there are bugs 6448876, 6486393, 6490730 in bugs.sun.com, but seems that Sun dont want to fix it until Java7 - 1.5 years?
is there any other way to invoke KDE-apps or KDE-tray from Java?