This is AllTray. AllTray is an application which docks other application software into the system tray (“notification area”) of a desktop environment such as GNOME, KDE, or XFCE. It aims to be independent of both desktop environment and window manager. Old releases are available, and currently the project is focusing on updating the source code to become more fully compliant with existing desktop standards, as well as being refactored.

See the REQUIREMENTS file in the tree to see what build and run-time requirements are. However, as long as you have all of the requirements met, AllTray will build with the standard configure && make && make install process.

AllTray is currently in the process of moving to GitHub. Much of its infrastructure has been hosted at Launchpad for the past few years, which was a significant improvement from where it was at Sourceforge. Of course, Launchpad is built around the Bazaar DVCS, not git, so it is not likely that it will continue to be the home for AllTray (aside perhaps from translations, but that would require that there be some sort of really good bidirectional interface for git↔bzr interaction; git-bzr is not that).

AllTray has had a very long history. It was originally written by Jochen Baier, who (as best as I can tell) has left the world of UNIX and UNIX-like software and gone to the world of Windows. In late 2008 I took over AllTray and began to rewrite it to update it to better align with modern standards found in the X11 environment.

The new development branch of AllTray, the 0.7.Xdev series, has taken a very long time to work on. However, it is nearing completion: several key features have been reimplmented, and old features that no longer make sense have been removed. No longer does AllTray rely on window-manager specific tricks to function, which should improve the experience for everyone. That is not to say that new AllTray is bug-free: it almost certainly is not.

Version 0.7.5dev was released on July 14, 2011. Work on 0.7.6dev is nearing completion already as of July 20, 2011. 0.7.6dev will be released within the next couple of weeks, and it is likely to be the last development release before the next stable—the first stable release of AllTray since I took it over in 2008. Exciting!

Of course, I welcome any contributions. Please send pull requests if you have contributions! :-)