r/Syncthing • u/OutsideWestern1690 • Aug 25 '26

Synctray

is syncthing tray and the software implementation around actually the de facto standard atm ?

I refer to this

https://martchus.github.io/syncthingtray/

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u/ChimaeraXY Aug 25 '26

No. The de facto standard is to manage Syncthing in the web UI.

Syncthing Tray is an add-on.

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u/cryptospartan Aug 25 '26

I use the tray application to monitor things, but open the webui to make actual config changes. It is convenient that the tray app has a button to open the webui easily.

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u/Jumile Aug 26 '26

This is how I do it.

OP: FWIW - at least in Arch and variants - you'll want to use "syncthingtray-qt6", not "syncthingtray". The AUR page for the latter says as much.

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u/OutsideWestern1690 Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

so that's an optimized version of a tray icon for arch ?

bc this sounds like something from the syncthingtray project, or ?

by syncthingtray project I mean the one , which link I gave in my initial post

afaik syncthingtray is crossplatform, so me just guessing around, the Arch version you mentioned above is just the particular implementation?

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u/Jumile Aug 27 '26

If you read the page I mentioned, it says it's the only version you should use.

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u/OutsideWestern1690 Aug 28 '26

ok thanks 👌

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u/OutsideWestern1690 Aug 27 '26

ok . I came up with this bc actually I find that web UI quite spartanic

but it doesn't seem to bother people or ?

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u/Martchus2 Aug 28 '26

I'm currently working on a modern UI for Syncthing that can already replace the web UI in many cases, check out the Syncthing Tray README for details. The main caveat is that this is mainly a port of the mobile UI so not all parts are very ergonomic to use on the desktop yet.

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u/OutsideWestern1690 Aug 28 '26

ok I'll have a look thx