Tray icon support?

[fatshotty]

Hello there,

is tray icon available?

thanks

[zcbenz]

Sorry we have no support of tray icon now, though it's on our plan.

[egeozcan]

I see that a tray implementation has been added with the latest commits. That is great news. I must say I'm pretty excited.

I wanted to share a few questions that came to my mind, though:

• Is balloon notifications support on Windows and Growl support on Mac hard to do?
• Would it also be possible to add right click actions for Windows7? Does this have a substitute on other platforms?
• Wouldn't it be better if this was a separate project from node-webkit and could be installed from npm? Does it depend on other components of this project?

[zcbenz]

Is balloon notifications support on Windows and Growl support on Mac hard to do?

ballon notifications will be part of Tray API but also be Windows-only. Growl will not be supported but we will have a Notification API to do things similar on all platforms.

Would it also be possible to add right click actions for Windows7? Does this have a substitute on other platforms?

left and right click events will be supported on Windows and GTK, but not Mac.

Wouldn't it be better if this was a separate project from node-webkit and could be installed from npm? Does it depend on other components of this project?

Our native UI library is not a separate GUI library, it will not contain standard controls which is necessary for a real GUI library. And in order to make it interactive with the browser window created by using Chromium API, I have to implement it with the IPC architecture of Chromium, which makes it totally useless outside node-webkit.

[egeozcan]

Thank you so much for the detailed answer. I'm looking for open points within my skill to contribute by the way.

[Ivshti]

BTW, if you need a tray icon fast with node-webkit 0.2.*, consider checking out node-gui.

[Mithgol]

@Ivshti Could you give all us a hyperlink to node-gui?

[zcbenz]

Tray icon has been implemented in v0.3.0, see:
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Tray