3.2 KiB
3.2 KiB
Syncthing Tray
Qt 5-based tray application for Syncthing
- Designed to work under any desktop environment with tray icon support
- Tested under Plasma 5 and Openbox/qt5ct/Tint2
- Could be shown as regular window if no tray icon support is available
- Doesn't require desktop environment specific libraries
- Provides quick access to most frequently used features but does not intend to replace the official web UI
- Check state of directories and devices
- Check current traffic statistics
- Display further details about direcoties and devices, like last file, last scan, ...
- Trigger re-scan of a specific directory
- Open a directory with the default file browser
- Pause/resume devices
- Shows Syncthing notifications
- Does not allow configuring Syncthing itself (currently I do not intend to add this feature as it could cause more harm than good when not implemented correctly)
- Provides quick access to the official web UI
- Utilizes either Qt WebKit or Qt WebEngine
- Can be built without web view support as well (then the web UI is opened in the regular browser)
- Still under development; the following features are planned
- Connect to multiple instances of Syncthing at a time
- Add option to conveniently add the tray to the applications launched when the desktop environment starts
- Add option to launch Syncthing when the tray is started and log stdout/stderr (would make sense for me under Windows, otherwise starting Syncthing via systemd is more preferable of course)
Screenshots
Under Openbox/Tint2
Under Plasma 5 (dark color theme)
Settings dialog (dark color theme)
Web view (dark color theme)
Download / binary repository
I will provide packages for Arch Linux and Windows when releasing. For more information checkout my website.
Build instructions
The application depends on c++utilities and qtutilities and is built the same way as these libaries. For basic instructions checkout the README file of c++utilities.
The following Qt 5 modules are requried: core network gui widgets webenginewidgets/webkitwidgets
Select Qt modules for WebView
- If Qt WebKitWidgets is installed on the system, the tray will link against it. Otherwise it will link against Qt WebEngineWidgets.
- To force usage of Qt WebKit/Qt WebEngine or to disable both add
-DWEBVIEW_PROVIDER=webkit/webengine/none
to the CMake arguments.
BTW: I still prefer the deprecated Qt WebKit because
- I currently don't know how to allow a particular self-signed certificate in Qt WebEngine. (Currently any self-signed certificate is accepted!)
- Qt WebEngine can not be built with mingw-w64.
- Qt WebEngine is more buggy in my experience.
- security issues are not a concern because no other website than the Syncthing web UI is shown.