Freenet Tray Application

This Windows tray application allows starting and stopping Freenet, and opening browsers. It opens Freenet when left-clicked and offers a menu when right-clicked.

Supported Browsers

Screenshots

Building

FreenetTray can be built natively on Windows, or any recent Linux distribution that packages the mono framework. Note that this does not mean it will run on Linux (yet), only that you do not need to run Windows to build the tray app for Windows.

After a build succeeds, the release should be in the bin/Release folder in the project root.

You will need to copy both FreenetTray.exe and FreenetTray.exe.config, and deploy them together.

Building on Windows

You will need to install:

Visual Studio 2017 (older versions should work, but 2017 is recommended, it's also free)
.NET 4.5.2 targeting pack

Then click Build in Visual Studio, it should restore the nuget packages and build the release.

Building on Linux for Windows

On Debian/Ubuntu, install the following packages:

mono-devel
mono-reference-assemblies-4.0
nuget

Then update nuget and restore the nuget packages:

nuget update -self
nuget restore

Now you should be able to build the release:

xbuild /p:Configuration=Release /p:TargetFrameworkVersion="v4.0" /p:DebugSymbols=False FreenetTray.sln

You may be able to run xbuild without those options, but in certain environments they avoid build issues.

Motivation

This is a replacement for the AutoHotKey tray application. It aims to have more robust localization support, not be false-positived by overzealous antivirus heuristics that hate scripting languages, and have a few more features: setting which browser to open and hiding the tray icon.

It uses .NET 3.5 because it is distributed with 7, which is still supported and has a significant market share unlike Vista. 3.0 doesn't include some useful things. Existing installs can continue to use the AHK application.

TODO:

Can the ntservice parts of wrapper.conf be removed?
Allow one instance open at a time. If another instance is given a command line command pass it to the existing instance.

Menu items | command line options

Command line options are executed from left to right, so -othercommand -hide will perform actions, then exit the tray application.

First run | -welcome

This shows a balloon tip about using the tray and opens Freenet like -open. This suppresses the slow start notification.

Open Freenet | -open

Open Freenet's dashboard with a browser in privacy mode. If Freenet is not running it is started. The default browser preference is seen here, and a specific browser can be set instead in the preferences window.

Start Freenet | -start

Start Freenet.

Stop Freenet | -stop

Stop Freenet.

Open downloads directory | -downloads

Open the downloads directory in Windows Explorer.

View logs | -logs

Open wrapper.log in notepad.

Preferences | -preferences

Set the browser to use, and whether to start the icon or start Freenet on startup.

Hide icon | -hide

Hide the icon by closing the tray application. If Freenet is stopped this menu entry is hidden.

Exit | -exit

Stop Freenet if it is running, wait for it to exit, then close the tray application.

Translations

Translations are primarily contributed through Transifex:

The <resource>.en.resx files are made with the wintray-filter-resx script which filters strings which do not need to be translated. The script uses filter-resx from the scripts repository.

This is because Transifex displays all ResX entries, but the Windows Forms Designer includes things like button size and font which do not need to be translated.

Feature requests and bug reports

Please file any bugs or feature requests on the Freenet Project issue tracker in the wininstaller category.

hyphanet/wintray