<AWT Dev> [RFC] Tray icons for applications are not displayed in the GNOME notification bar.

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi Danesh,

While you're at it, there's just been filed a bug report:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7103610

which suggests that the mentioned window properties need to be set on 
all application's windows, not just the tray icon window. What do you 
think about extending this logic to all windows? We could add a method 
in the XWindowPeer class for this, and install the properties on all 
windows (including the tray icon - since it's an embedded frame that 
uses the XEmbeddedFramePeer as its peer).

--
best regards,
Anthony

On 10/21/11 15:43, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Hi Danesh,
>
> Overall, the fix looks reasonable. However, I see a problem with using
> the RuntimeMXBean.getName() method to obtain the information we need,
> because the specification of the method states:
>
>> Returns the name representing the running Java virtual machine. The
>> returned name string can be any arbitrary string and a Java virtual
>> machine implementation can choose to embed platform-specific useful
>> information in the returned name string. Each running virtual machine
>> could have a different name.
>
> There's no any guarantees regarding the format of the string returned.
> Which means that if the XToolkit code is going to be run with a VM other
> than, say, Hotspot, the method may return a differently formatted
> string, and hence this code may fail.
>
> Is there a more robust way to obtain the PID and the client FQDN?
>
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
>
> On 10/21/2011 12:03 AM, Danesh Dadachanji wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There's a bug[1] with java tray icons and the new gnome-shell, the
>> icon is no longer displayed. GNOME has adapted an additional spec[2]
>> from the freedesktop standards for its notification bar (system tray).
>> It now requires the XAtom _NET_WM_PID to be set, which in turn needs
>> WM_CLIENT_MACHINE. If they aren't then things don't go smoothly and
>> the bar won't show the icon/embedded frame.
>>
>> The following webrev fixes the bug:
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/~ddadacha/tray_icon/
>>
>> This bug is also in jdk6 and 7 as well FWIW.
>>
>> I would appreciate any comments!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Danesh
>>
>> [1] Original bug report -
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683768
>> [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s05.html#id2523510