tray icons

[p00f]

I'm willing to work on this, can you tell me how to start? I found https://docs.rs/stray/0.1.3/stray/message/tray/struct.StatusNotifierItem.html which returns the icon name and/or the icon pixmap, how do I actually draw these?

[MaxVerevkin]

Hi.

It looks like stray uses tokio, so the first step would be to start using tokio ourselves (which I used to do at some point but removed (https://github.com/MaxVerevkin/i3bar-river/commit/91381b2c1bb0ee5cb4755ac80769a7838874bbe6) because it wasn't really necessary at that point).

Then you can create a tray module, in which you will keep track of the tray state.

To draw an icon, you will need to create a Surface, and then

cairo_ctx.set_source_surface(&surface, x, y).unwrap();
cairo_ctx.paint().unwrap();

[p00f]

I see, thanks

On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 12:32, Max Verevkin @.***> wrote:

Hi.

It looks like stray uses tokio, so the first step would be to start using tokio ourselves (which I used to do at some point but removed (91381b2 https://github.com/MaxVerevkin/i3bar-river/commit/91381b2c1bb0ee5cb4755ac80769a7838874bbe6) because it wasn't really necessary at that point).

Then you can create a tray module, in which you will keep track of the tray state.

To draw an icon, you will need to create a Surface https://docs.rs/cairo-rs/0.17.0/cairo/struct.Surface.html, and then

cairo_ctx.set_source_surface(&surface, x, y).unwrap(); cairo_ctx.paint().unwrap();

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[MaxVerevkin]

So, a high-level plan can be

1. Transition to tokio.
2. Add an option to enable the tray and just render the icons.
3. Add config options to customize the appearance of those icons.
4. Implement menus, clicks, popups.