Add new trait : GtkStatusIcon

[GuillaumeGomez]

original.

[lidavidm]

Any progress on this? I'd be interested in working on this if not. I see there's already a bit of stuff in the codebase, though there's no trait for it yet.

[gkoz]

Since GtkStatusIcon is not a widget it looks like you can already take advantage of the generator work: take this file, convert it to use the glib_wrapper! macro (change the pub type and impl StaticType bits similarly to this diff) and fix the commented out bits. I hope it's not too much at once ;) (I'm, not sure why the issue talks about a trait, because GtkStatusIcon doesn't seem to require adding any traits.)

This will take care of the class itself and then we can figure out the signals.

[lidavidm]

Ah, thanks! I have it working at a basic level now.

I also just realized that this is all deprecated...Apparently the replacement is GNotification, which doesn't look like a replacement at all. (Or using "platform-specific APIs".) There's also AppIndicator. All this is rather frustrating, but I guess it's irrelevant here.

[gkoz]

I agree that there doesn't seem to be a satisfactory replacement so that deprecation is annoying.

[gkoz]

I believe this has been obsoleted by #186 and then #221

[jonhoo]

Sorry to revive this old discussion, but is a viable alternative to GtkStatusIcon available anywhere? As @lidavidm points out, GNotification doesn't actually provide this feature (you can persist a notification, but that's about it), and isn't implemented in gtk-rs from what I can see. AppIndicator seems promising, but afaict, it's not a part of GTK, nor is there a Rust port for it? @gkoz, have you found anything that can fill this space following the deprecation?

[gkoz]

@jonhoo sadly a replacement still doesn't seem to exist. A recent summary from Remmina supports this. Perhaps a Rust library could break new ground here if there was significant demand.

[jonhoo]

That's very interesting, but also disheartening. Thanks for the link!

[efyang]

Perhaps one could modify this go library to be able to use callbacks and translate most of it to rust (as we already have bindings to winapi and cocoa), but we would still need good bindings to libappindicator to have linux support. It would be a pretty large amount of work to undertake.