Bug 577835

Summary:	[GTK4] Tray/TrayItem broken due to GtkStatusIcon removed in GTK4
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Joel Majano <jmajano>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.23
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	540385, 577600

Description Joel Majano

2021-12-15 16:12:26 EST

Since this API was removed, and a native GTK replacement is not available, the solution to this involve using other libraries. See https://discourse.gnome.org/t/what-to-use-instead-of-statusicon-in-gtk4-to-display-the-icon-in-the-system-tray/7175 for some discussion about the possible avenues that could be explored as replacements. 

GNOME Shell doesn't have a system tray, thus this functionality was already broken in GTK3 since it just didn't do anything. Other Wayland based desktops such as KDE or Cinnamon could be supported with an external library in GTK4.