Investigate if the macOS toggle is possible in system tray app build with Tauri

[mrinalwadhwa]

We're building a Desktop System Tray app for Ockam, see #5228

Here are two ways we could design the UI for an Ockam node running in the background.

1. With a toggle, this is the more modern macOS approach:

2. A status menu item (like Docker is running) combined with menu items to start and stop.

We should investigate if the toggle is possible with Tauri/Tao/Muda
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tao/tree/muda
https://github.com/tauri-apps/muda

I imagine that the rendering is delegated to macOS so makes sense for it to be possible somehow.

Run

You can run the current version of the app as follows:

cd implementations/typescript
pnpm install
pnpm build

cd ../../implementations/rust/ockam/ockam_app
cargo tauri dev

Source Code

The code for this is here:

• https://github.com/build-trust/ockam/blob/develop/implementations/rust/ockam/ockam_app
• https://github.com/build-trust/ockam/blob/develop/implementations/typescript/ockam/ockam_app

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[davide-baldo]

@tusharxoxoxo Thanks! please let us know if you have any question!

[etorreborre]

@nazmulidris should we still keep this issue open as such or is it included in another piece of work?

[mrinalwadhwa]

I think we can close it, it's included in @davide-baldo's work with #5774