On Saturday 13 June 2009 16:54:19 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Friday 29 May 2009 15:04:21 Zero3 wrote:
> > Matthew Toseland skrev:
> > >> 3. Add a 'pause' feature. (131 votes)
> > > Now 140 votes.
> > >> Remarkably high ranking, I wonder what proportion of our users use 
> > >> online 
> > >> games?
> > 
> > I can fix a Windows helper to do this (in the same style as the other 
> > helpers in the wininstaller).
> > 
> > Obviously this once again raises the question of whether this kind of 
> > stuff ought to be done cross-platform or platform specific.
> > 
> > In any way - if nobody finds time to make a cross-platform solution in 
> > the next couple of months, I offer to make a Windows solution. This will 
> > require the actual "pause" feature done in Freenet itself first of 
> > course (unless you simply want to stop the node completely instead).
> 
> You are proposing to implement a system tray icon for Windows? We already 
> have one for Mac, so it may make sense simply to ship system specific tray 
> icons, to minimise overheads (maybe a few megs for a good native applet, and 
> it could start/stop Freenet as well as pausing it ...). One cross platform 
> applet is not going to happen, because until very recently Mac doesn't 
> support the java system tray API.
> 
> Now we just need somebody to implement a nice Linux system tray icon for 
> Freenet. Any takers? C for x86 would be fine, but Python or something similar 
> for wider support might be better?
> 
It appears there are good reasons to implement the Linux version in Java. See 
the discussion and some source code archived on the relevant bug:
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=3220

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