A cross platform systray icon

[Larry Bates]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
> platform systray icon?  It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
> minimum.
> 
> I've seen the win32all code which is very similar to the C code I've
> written before for Windows.  It would be a small irritation to have to
> integrate its event loop with whichever GUI framework I'm using for
> the rest of it though.
> 
> I don't know how to make a systray under KDE/Gnome though, but I think
> freedesktop has made it a lot easier now.  I didn't manage to find a
> python example - does anyone have one?
> 
> Ideally I'd like someone to tell me that PyQT, tkinter or PyGTK does
> it all for me, but from my searching on the subject I doubt it is
> going to be that easy!
> 
> Thanks
Google turned this up.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0110159/gems/systray_py.txt

Hope it helps.

-Larry