using gtk4?

[TornaxO7]

tray-icon is currently using gtk3. Would it be possible to bump to gtk4?

[FabianLars]

Hi, i really wish we could do it. The tray library is tauri's biggest gtk4 blocker afaik (except for the work of upgrading😅) but unfortunetely libappindicator, the linux tray library, requires gtk3 and won't update to gtk4 anytime soon (ref) especially considering that many distros still only use the "old" library (the one without ayatana in its name) which is basically unmaintained.

So i guess it's more likely we'll drop libappindicator for knsi or something at some point than using gtk4.

[TornaxO7]

Damn it... may I ask if you know any alternatives to create system trays with rust?

[FabianLars]

There's a rust implementation for ksni here https://github.com/iovxw/ksni but i don't know how usable it is.

[TornaxO7]

thank you for the information!

[nazar-pc]

Why not using https://github.com/iovxw/ksni on Linux then? Looks like a decent selection of supported specs and no GTK stuff in dependencies.

[FabianLars]

Well, that was the plan all the way back (iirc even before we moved out the tray implementation from tauri/tao into this crate) but we don't have time for this right now. We of course wouldn't turn down PRs in the meantime.

[nazar-pc]

Will experiment with it in our project and if it works well might send a PR your way, thanks!