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Good morning dear community, i have a little trouble and i can't found any proper explanation for this issue, actually i'm developing an small application to hear radio streaming using Vala and Granite, the problem comes when i try to make a StatusIcon for the app, i followed the related documentation in various site but no one works i'm doing something bad?

this is my code:

trayicon = new StatusIcon.from_icon_name("gtk-home");
        trayicon.set_tooltip_text("Tray");
        trayicon.set_visible(true);
        trayicon.set_has_tooltip(true);

according with the documentation that might work but doesn't.

let me know if you guys need to the the full code.

thanks for any help.

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GtkStatusIcon is deprecated since GTK 3.14. It is more for Windows and KDE and not supported on elementary OS or Gnome 3.

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  • ok, then i can't put functionality to my app? or is there another way to get it, thank you for clear it. – Frankity Oct 26 '16 at 13:30
  • What functionality do you want? I suppose you want to switch stations while not showing the window. This will be best in the Quicklist menu in plank. For this you can use libunity. See for a example here bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-pantheon/switchboard/… – Djax Oct 26 '16 at 13:31
  • i mean put my app icon here i.douglasbrunal.co/26-10-16-NUTsnumB.png – Frankity Oct 26 '16 at 13:34
  • I now what you mean. My question is why you want it there? – Djax Oct 26 '16 at 13:35
  • cause if an user want to stop the streaming can click in the icon to display a menu where will find settings, play, stop and exit the app does not have a visible gui. – Frankity Oct 26 '16 at 13:41

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