SystemTray

Cross-platform SystemTray and AppIndicator support for java applications.

This small library only purpose is to show reasonably decent system-tray icons/app-indicators with a simple popup-menu.

There are a number of problems on Linux with the Swing (and SWT) system-tray icons, namely that

1. Swing system-tray icons on linux do not support transparent backgrounds (they have a white background)
2. Swing/SWT do not support app-indicators, which are necessary on more recent versions of linux (ie: ubuntu)
3. Swing popup menus look like crap

• system-tray icons use a JMenuPopup, which looks nicer than the java 'regular' one.
• app-indicators use native popups.

This is for cross-platform use, specifically - linux 32/64, mac 32/64, and windows 32/64. Java 6+ This library uses JNA, which means there are fun bits that are native.

Note: This library does NOT uses SWT for system-tray support, only for the purpose
      of lessening the jar dependencies. SWT-based wouldn't be difficult, just remember
      that SWT on linux *already* starts up the GTK main event loop.

      This library might need some additional testing in SWT environments.

Note: If you use the attached JNA libraries, you **MUST** load the respective
      native libraries yourself, especially with JNA (as the loading logic has
      been removed from the jar)

Note: This project was heavily influence by the excellent Lantern project,
      *Many* thanks to them for figuring out AppIndicators via JNA.
      https://github.com/getlantern/lantern

* Lantern - Apache 2.0 License
  https://github.com/getlantern/lantern
  Copyright 2010 Brave New Software Project, Inc.

* JNA - Apache 2.0 License
  https://github.com/twall/jna
  Copyright (c) 2011 Timothy Wall