Does TideSDK's Ti.UI.addTray work in Ubuntu?

Question

I was testing out a TideSDK example using the following code from github.

https://github.com/meeech/Menu-App

I am using Ubuntu and what I would expect to happen is a new tray icon appearing in the right hand side of the tray along the menu. It simply does not appear.

Would this most likely be a problem with the SDK or an issue with Ubuntu's tray config?

Answer 1

It looks like Ubuntu's Unity broke several cross platform UI toolkits that rely on the freedesktop.org specification of the System Tray Protocol including wxWidgets (and wxPython), QT (since patched) and TideSDK. Unity uses its own Application Indicator api now.

More specifically, TideSDK uses the GtkStatusIcon which isn't honored by Unity.