Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Add tray support

[Mark H. <mh...@ca...>]

Hi,
  Java-Gnome does not have any support for libegg at the moment. It is
unlikely that we will add it in the future either, since libegg changes
very quickly. However, the best bits of libegg always move into standard
gtk/gnome once they become stable and are accepted as being useful. Once
they are there, java-gnome will support them. Our new release schedule
means that our support for them will be very shortly after gnome
supports them. 

(For those reading this who don't know, libegg is a library for new
widgets which are being developed. It changes very quickly and so is
not usually supported by many applications. However, once widgets in
libegg are proven to be useful, they are moved into core gtk/gnome
libraries)

If you do want to add support for this part of libegg yourself, the only
documentation that is available is the java-gnome source code itself.
you would have to create a new java-gnome module containing jni and java
code. This would require quite detailed knowledge of java, jni and of
course the libegg api. If you have this, then we would be glad to help
out with any problems you encounter (although java-gnome developers are
currently very busy adding support for gnome 2.5, so we might be a
little slow in responding at the moment)


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