Support icons next to items of the tray icon's popup menu

[sschuberth]

It would be nice if the popup menu for the tray icon would support icons in front of its entries. Then indicators like "* " currently could be replaced with a nice "unlocked" icon.

[sschuberth]

Hmm, looks like (some of) the code still uses AWT instead of Swing (or even JavaFX), which probably makes adding support for icons in menu item hard. So maybe an implementation based on a library like https://github.com/dorkbox/SystemTray would be feasible?

[purejava]

We are already working on a change that uses native libs on Linux to show the tray icon:
cryptomator/integrations-linux#22
cryptomator/cryptomator#2885

The tray icon changes in case one of the vaults is unlocked and shows an unlocked lock symbol together with the Cryptomator icon then.

[sschuberth]

The tray icon changes in case one of the vaults is unlocked and shows an unlocked lock symbol together with the Cryptomator icon then.

Sounds nice, but what I was referring to is to show icons next to the items of the popup menu the tray menu opens, like next to "Green Mail" as shown here. Will that also be supported?

[infeo]

Not within the linked PRs. We would nee to extend/refactor the tray menu api to also support traymenu items containig different things than strings.

[purejava]

Sounds nice, but what I was referring to is to show icons next to the items of the popup menu the tray menu opens, like next to "Green Mail" as shown here. Will that also be supported?

SystemTray uses some hack to show the icons.

I'd definitely prefer a clean approach:

If you want to display an icon in a menu item, you should use GtkMenuItem and pack a GtkBox with a GtkImage and a GtkLabel instead.

[sschuberth]

I'd definitely prefer a clean approach:

Me too, thanks for taking a look. As I'm curious about what the SystemTray folks (who seem to have a lot of expertise in this area) have to say, I've asked.