libayatana support?

[nekr0z]

It looks like Debian is deprecating libappindicator in favour of libayatana-appindicator. Any chance it will be supported by systray?

[shellhazard]

Is there a workaround for this? Haven't been able to satisfy the dependency on Debian Bullseye.

[ppacher]

Any update on this?

[nekr0z]

I ended up making a fork. The diff is just a couple of lines.

I'd make a pull request but I can't figure out choosing which dependency to use on the library level. It is, however, fairly trivial to use build tags to have your app compiled to use the original library or the forked one.

[Crosse]

I've proposed #225 to allow this library to build against both the older libappindicator and new libayatana-appindicator libraries.

[Crosse]

Closed via #225.

[dhaavi]

For anyone further looking into this: This ended up being a bad idea for our use case, as we ship a single binary for multiple distros. From what we can tell, this then broke all the systrays on everything not based on Debian, as all others don't have the libayatana-appindicator library.

Our solution was to switch to the fork https://github.com/fyne-io/systray, as they now use dbus directly instead of a C lib.

Maybe this is a change you might want to consider upstreaming.

[Crosse]

Interesting. Once I’m back “in the office” I’ll take a look at that and see if we can do the same or similar. Thanks for the heads-up.