[Mono-list] mono and systray icon

Alex Roman allex2k3@yahoo.ca
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:26:44 -0500


On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:27 +0100, Marek Habersack wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:47:17PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe scribbled:
> > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:51, Alex Roman wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 09:37 -0500, Alex C wrote:
> > > > i believe the mwf team is working on this.
> > > > check this link out
> > > > http://svn.myrealbox.com/blog/archive/2005/01/28/keep_feeling_fascination.
> > > > alex c.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, I looked at that, but I do not want a Windows.Forms
> > > implementation. I don't want my application to work under Windows. All I
> > > want is to get it working under X11.
> > 
> > I think the point is that it works on *both* Windows and Linux.  
> I guess the point is to get something working and doing what you intend it
> to do. Whether it works under Linux or Windows, is a matter of the
> programmer's judgement, goals, personal preferences etc - therefore it is
> not a subject for this list.
> 
> Alex, muine uses a C library to integrate with the systray, it's called
> libegg. To my best knowledge, this is currently the only way to get it done
> (C/C++ programs use it as well). Of course, you are free to implement a
> managed implementation of the systray protocol as per the specs - that would
> probably require you to use p/invoke to access the X11 API, though.
> The egg library in the muine sources can be found in libmuine/egg/

All right thanks :) By all means, i will (try to) use it :) Why not? If
it's there and it works, then I should use it. 

Hehe, I found this: http://www.atoker.com/switcher/ and I think I'll use
what they have there :) thanks a lot ppl :) you've been great!

> best regards,
> 
> marek
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