pythoncross-platformoperating-systemwxpythonsystem-tray

How would a system tray application be accomplished on other platforms?

Windows has the "system tray" that houses the clock and alway-running services like MSN, Steam, etc.

I'd like to develop a wxPython tray application but I'm wondering how well this will port to other platforms. What is the tray equivalent on each platform, and how much manual work would be required to support Windows, OSX and Linux (which shells in particular would be friendliest).

Solution

  • wx is a cross-platform GUI and tools library that supports Win32, Mac OS X, GTK+, X11, Motif, WinCE, and more. And if you use it's classes then your application should work on all these platforms. For system tray look at wxTaskBarIcon (http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxtaskbaricon.html#wxtaskbaricon).