[Kde-java] KDE SystemTray

[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...

> 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
> 
> Paranoid wrote:
> > 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?