<AWT Dev> [10] Review Request: 8187639 TrayIcon is not properly supported on macOS in multi-screen environment

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 26/10/2017 08:26, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
>> The existing applications will use the new functionality which behaves 
>> like the old ones. The appearance of the message itself will differ 
>> but after the fix it will look like the native message, even before 
>> the fix the appearance was different on different platforms.
> I'm not sure that it will behave as before since that was a swing 
> component which uses Swing L&F, so at least the appearance is changed by 
> the fix >
> Yet another thing is localization.  Before the fix the message was shown 
> in java locale which may differ from the native locale, now it is always 
> follows the native locale and there is no way to change it from java.

The things above are purpose of the fix - to look identical to a native 
applications(appearance, location and behavior).
The old implementation of this class via Swing was just a stub which was 
implemented to fill the gap in API between jdk6 and 7. Since this is awt 
component it should be implemented via the native API.

> This may cause unexpected changes in the existing applications, so I 
> suppose it is reasonable to introduce a compatibility property that 
> allows switching to the previous behavior. At a minimum, this should be 
> mentioned in compatibility section of the release notes.

I'll create a release notes subtask, do you have some other comments?


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Best regards, Sergey.