Request to backport 6438179 (fix XToolkit.isTraySupported)

Omair Majid omajid at redhat.com
Tue Aug 10 12:09:41 PDT 2010


On 08/10/2010 08:33 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> On 8/9/10 9:17 PM, Phil Race wrote:
>> The referenced patch includes a specification change, adding the new property used to
>> detect if the state of the systemTray has changed. That is not appropriate. Even if its
>> not detected by an extant JCK test, its a spec change which can't be in 6.
>>
>> I think the part of this where the availability of the tray is determined by the system
>> tray protocol instead of the window manager should be OK.
>> That part was in fact backported to JDK 1.6 update 10.
>
> Thank you very much for the background and the quick review, Phil.
>

Thanks to both of you for looking at the patch. I did not realize that 
adding the new property means a specification change.

> Omar, would you like to take a shot at backporting just the part where the
> availability of the tray is determined by the system tray protocol instead
> of the window manager?
>

Here is a much more minimalistic approach to the patch:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~omajid/webrevs/backport-system-tray/webrev.01/

Thanks,
Omair


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