README.md

AppIndicator Go

Go (golang) bindings for libappindicator3 C library.

Libappindicator is a library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar. Based on KSNI it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if none of those are available.

Also it works in:

• Unity
• GNOME Shell with this extension
• Budgie Desktop with this applet
• MATE with this applet
• Xfce with this plugin

This package aims to be interoperable with Go gtk3 bindings.

3 in the name means that it's GTK3 version.

Dependencies

On Debian-based distributions:

apt install libappindicator3-dev libgtk-3-dev

And of course go with cgo is required.

Building

Refer to gotk3 wiki

...or simply run build.sh script that will try to detect currently installed version of GTK, pass along given go build flags and execute it.

For example to build one of examples:

./build.sh -v examples/simple/main.go

Examples

Examples are located in examples directory

Project History

AppIndicator Go is a fork of Dawid Dziurla's go-appindicator. That project was abanzoned and eventually archived. This project continues where that one left off, under the same MIT license (of course).