UI / Performance: Remove dependencies on AWT (system tray icon)

[cd2357]

As per https://stackoverflow.com/a/11121207 having AWT dependencies in a JavaFX application can lead to more CPU/RAM usage than necessary, because two separate graphics stacks are loaded and active at the same time.

From what I can tell, Bisq mainly uses AWT for the system tray icon.

If that's the case, then with AWT we have:

• benefits: ability to show Bisq in the system tray
• drawbacks: a separate graphics stack (older, superseded by JavaFX) loaded in Java, with possible impact on RAM and CPU usage

To me, it seems the drawbacks outweigh the benefits.

Therefore, I suggest to remove the AWT dependencies from Bisq (and with that, the system tray icon).

[cd2357]

Looks like we also use AWT for the webcam/QR code reader, via the class java.awt.image.BufferedImage.

As per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30970005/bufferedimage-to-javafx-image there is a JavaFX equivalent to that.

[ripcurlx]

Looks like we also use AWT for the webcam/QR code reader, via the class java.awt.image.BufferedImage.

As per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30970005/bufferedimage-to-javafx-image there is a JavaFX equivalent to that.

Besides that it also stopped working with Catalina as it doesn't work without notarization anymore to access the webcam. So I think it would be good to tackle the webcam part anyways.

[ripcurlx]

Related to #4374.

[jmacxx]

There remains outstanding issue of the library com.github.sarxos.webcam which uses awt in its public interface and so puts java.awt.image.BufferedImage and java.awt.Dimension into Bisq code. To remove awt from the runtime stack the whole webcam library will need to change.

[cd2357]

A good non-AWT webcam alternative might be JavaCV (see sample).

[ripcurlx]

And we really need to get rid of it now:

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It prevents us to build notarized versions now for macOS as well.

[ripcurlx]

I'll give JavaCV a shot if I'm able to port our QR-Code reader to this supported lib.

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