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201 lines
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# Syncthing Tray
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Qt 5-based tray application for [Syncthing](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing)
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## Supported platforms
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* Designed to work under any desktop environment supported by Qt 5 with tray icon
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support
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* No desktop environment specific libraries required
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* Tested under \*
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* Plasma 5
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* Openbox/qt5ct/Tint2
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* Awesome/qt5ct
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* Cinnamon
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* Windows 10
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* Can be shown as regular window if tray icon support is not available
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\* If you can confirm it works under other desktop environments, please add it
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to the list. Maybe someone could check whether it works under Mac OS X.
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## Features
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* Provides quick access to most frequently used features but does not intend to replace the official web UI
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* Check state of directories and devices
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* Check current traffic statistics
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* Display further details about directories and devices, like last file, last
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scan, items out of sync, ...
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* Display ongoing downloads
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* Display Syncthing log
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* Trigger re-scan of a specific directory or all directories at once
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* Open a directory with the default file browser
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* Pause/resume a specific device or all devices at once
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* Pause/resume a specific directory
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* Shows Syncthing notifications
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* Can read the local Syncthing configuration file for quick setup when just connecting to local instance
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* Can show the status of the Syncthing systemd unit and allows to start and stop it (see section *Use of systemd*)
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* Provides an option to conveniently add the tray to the applications launched when the desktop environment starts
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* Can launch Syncthing and syncthing-inotify automatically when started and display stdout/stderr (useful under
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Windows)
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* Provides quick access to the official web UI
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* Utilizes either Qt WebKit or Qt WebEngine
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* Can be built without web view support as well (then the web UI is opened in the regular browser)
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* Allows quickly switching between multiple Syncthing instances
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* Shows notifications via Qt or uses D-Bus notification daemon directly
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* Also features a simple command line utility `syncthingctl` to check Syncthing status and trigger
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rescan/pause/resume/restart
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* Also bundles a KIO plugin which shows the status of a Syncthing directory
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and allows to trigger Syncthing actions in Dolphin file manager
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* Rescan selected items
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* Rescan entire Syncthing directory
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* Pause/resume Syncthing directory
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* See also screenshots section
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* Also has an (experimental) implementation as Plasmoid for Plasma 5 desktop
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* English and German localization
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## Planned features
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The tray is still under development; the following features are planned:
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* Show recently processed items
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* Make some notifications configurable on folder level
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* Optionally notify for single file updates (https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray/issues/7)
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* ~~Provide built-in support for file system watches~~ (canceled because this will be implemented in
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Syncting itself)
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## Screenshots
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### Under Openbox/Tint2
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![Openbox/Tint2](/tray/resources/screenshots/tint2.png?raw=true)
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### Under Plasma 5
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![Plasma 5](/tray/resources/screenshots/plasma.png?raw=true)
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![Plasma 5 (directory error)](/tray/resources/screenshots/plasma-2.png?raw=true)
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![Plasma 5 (dark)](/tray/resources/screenshots/plasma-dark.png?raw=true)
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### Settings dialog
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![Settings dialog](/tray/resources/screenshots/settings.png?raw=true)
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### Web view
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![Web view](/tray/resources/screenshots/webview.png?raw=true)
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![Web view (dark)](/tray/resources/screenshots/webview-dark.png?raw=true)
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### Syncthing actions for Dolphin
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![Rescan/pause/status](/fileitemactionplugin/resources/screenshots/dolphin.png?raw=true)
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## Hotkeys
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To create hotkeys, you can use the same approach as for any other
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application. Just make it invoke the `syncthingctl` application with
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the arguments for the desired action.
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### Hotkey for web UI
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Just add `--webui` to the `syncthingtray` arguments to trigger the web UI.
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Syncthing Tray ensures that no second instance will be spawned if it is already
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running and just trigger the web UI.
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## Use of systemd
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Use of systemd can be explicitely enabled/disabled by adding
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`-DSYSTEMD_SUPPORT=ON/OFF` to the CMake arguments. There will be no hard
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dependency to systemd in any case.
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With systemd support the tray can start and stop the systemd unit of Syncthing.
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It will also take the unit status into account when connecting to the local
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instance. So connection attempts can be prevented when Syncthing isn't running
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anyways. However, those features are optional. To use them they must be enabled
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in the settings dialog first.
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Note that this only works when starting Syncthing as user service. This is
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described in the [Arch Wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User).
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## Download
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### Source
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See the release section on GitHub.
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### Packages and binaries
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* Arch Linux
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* for PKGBUILDs checkout [my GitHub repository](https://github.com/Martchus/PKGBUILDs) or
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[the AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?SeB=m&K=Martchus)
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* for binary repository checkout [my website](http://martchus.no-ip.biz/website/page.php?name=programming)
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* Tumbleweed
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* for RPM \*.spec files and binary repository checkout
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[openSUSE Build Servide](https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:mkittler)
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* packages are available for x86_64, aarch64 and armv7l
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* since GCC provided by Leap is too old, only Tumbleweed packages are up-to-date
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* Windows
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* for mingw-w64 PKGBUILDs checkout [my GitHub repository](https://github.com/Martchus/PKGBUILDs)
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* for binaries checkout [my website](http://martchus.no-ip.biz/website/page.php?name=programming) and the
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release section on GitHub
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## Build instructions
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The application depends on [c++utilities](https://github.com/Martchus/cpp-utilities) and [qtutilities](https://github.com/Martchus/qtutilities) and is built the same way as these libaries. For basic instructions checkout the README file of [c++utilities](https://github.com/Martchus/cpp-utilities). For building this straight, see the next section.
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The following Qt 5 modules are requried (version 5.7 or newer): core network gui widgets svg webenginewidgets/webkitwidgets
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The built-in web view is optional (see section "Select Qt module for WebView").
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To build the plugin for Dolphin integration KIO is also requried. To skip building
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the plugin, add `-DNO_FILE_ITEM_ACTION_PLUGIN=ON` to the CMake arguments.
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It is also possible to build only the CLI (syncthingctl) by adding `-DNO_MODEL=ON`
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to the CMake arguments. Then only core and network are required.
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#### Building this straight
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0. Install (preferably the latest version of) g++ or clang, the required Qt 5 modules and CMake.
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1. Get the sources. For the lastest version from Git clone the following repositories:
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```
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cd $SOURCES
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git clone https://github.com/Martchus/cpp-utilities.git c++utilities
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git clone https://github.com/Martchus/qtutilities.git
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git clone https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray.git
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git clone https://github.com/Martchus/subdirs.git
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```
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2. Build and install everything in one step:
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```
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cd $BUILD_DIR
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cmake \
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-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
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-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/install/prefix" \
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$SOURCES/subdirs/syncthingtray
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make install -j$(nproc)
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```
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#### Select Qt module for WebView
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* If Qt WebKitWidgets is installed on the system, the tray will link against it. Otherwise it will link against Qt WebEngineWidgets.
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* To force usage of Qt WebKit/Qt WebEngine or to disable both add `-DWEBVIEW_PROVIDER=webkit/webengine/none` to the CMake arguments.
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* To use Qt WebKit revived/ng, set the web view provider to `webkit`. It works already without any (known) issues.
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#### BTW: I still prefer the deprecated Qt WebKit because
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* Currently there is no way to allow a particular self-signed certificate in Qt
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WebEngine. Currently any self-signed certificate is accepted! See:
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https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-51176
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* Qt WebEngine can not be built with mingw-w64.
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* QWebEngineView seems to eat `keyPressEvent`.
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* Qt WebEngine is more buggy in my experience.
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* Security issues are not a concern because no other website than the
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Syncthing web UI is shown. Any external links will be opened in the
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regular web browser anyways.
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* It will be replaced by the compatible Qt WebKit revived/ng soon and hence no longer be deprecated.
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## Adding translations
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Currently translations for English and German are available. Further translations
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can be added quite easily:
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1. Append a new translation file for the desired locale to the `TS_FILES` list
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in `connector/CMakeLists.txt`, `model/CMakeLists.txt` and `tray/CMakeLists.txt`.
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2. Trigger a new build, eg. follow steps under *Building this straight*.
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3. New translation files should have been created by the build system under
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`connector/translations`, `model/translations` and `tray/translations`.
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4. Open the files with Qt Linguist to add translations. Qt Linguist is part of
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the [Qt Tools repository](http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qttools.git/) and its usage
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is [well documented](http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linguist-translators.html).
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## Known bugs
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The following bugs are caused by dependencies and hence tracked externally. For bugs of Syncthing Tray itself, checkout the issues
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on GitHub.
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* Any self-signed certificate is accepted when using Qt WebEngine due to
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Qt bug https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-51176
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* Pausing/resuming folders and devices doesn't work when using scan-intervalls with a lot of zeros
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because of Syncthing bug https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/4001.
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This has already been fixed on the Qt-side with https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/187069/. However, the fix is only
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available in Qt 5.9 and above.
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* The tray disconnects from the local instance when the network connection goes down.
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The network connection must be restored or the tray restarted to be able to connect to local
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Syncthing again. This is caused by Qt bug https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-60949.
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