# Adopting qsyncthingtray
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/adopting-qsyncthingtray/13844
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 1, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/adopting-qsyncthingtray/13844 "2019-10-01T12:32:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@es20490446e](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/es20490446e)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/adopting-qsyncthingtray/13844/1 "2019-10-01T12:32:09Z")
qsynthingtray is a great tray software available for Linux and MacOS, and personally the one I think it’s the best on Linux after trying the rest of them.
    
The problem is its creator is no longer willing to maintain it, as he is now using the official client for MacOS.
The question is would you like to adopt it as the official Syncthing client for Linux?
Here’s the [conversation with the maintainer](https://github.com/sieren/QSyncthingTray/issues/247).
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### Author:  [@AudriusButkevicius](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/AudriusButkevicius)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/adopting-qsyncthingtray/13844/2 "2019-10-01T12:42:34Z")
There is no official macOS bundle, so not sure what he’s using.
We already have plenty of random bits around unmaintained, I wonder if we should take up more.
It mostly should continue working, and small breakages could be fixed by the users? Not requiring active maintenance.
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/adopting-qsyncthingtray/13844/3 "2019-10-01T12:59:50Z")
> [@AudriusButkevicius](#):
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> There is no official macOS bundle, so not sure what he’s using.
Syncthing-macos has been taking under the “official umbrella” a while ago: [GitHub - syncthing/syncthing-macos: Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos/)
There’s a second C++/QT tray icon wrapper that’s actively maintained by @Martchus. In principle I think it would make sense to add a QT wrapper to the existing windows, mac and gtk wrappers. However in my opinion the main reasons is to simplify the interaction with Syncthing and make it feel more native. QSyncthingTray doesn’t bundle Syncthing, so it doesn’t simplify the installation.
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### Author:  [@es20490446e](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/es20490446e)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/adopting-qsyncthingtray/13844/4 "2019-10-01T13:06:52Z")
> [@AudriusButkevicius](#):
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> It mostly should continue working, and small breakages could be fixed by the users? Not requiring active maintenance.
It works by itself right now. There are a couple of minor usability errors about it, like the “check for updates” always report new updates when there aren’t, or the default syncthing path not being the correct one. But these are unnoticeable on daily use.
> [@imsodin](#):
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> QSyncthingTray doesn’t bundle Syncthing, so it doesn’t simplify the installation.
In Linux that doesn’t matter, as all packages are aware of their dependencies.
Actually that’s a more desirable scenario, as you can easily use and test different versions of syncthing with it.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/adopting-qsyncthingtray/13844/5 "2019-10-01T13:43:23Z")
It’s reasonable to ask for new blood to take over the maintainership. I hope someone who likes the software and speaks the relevant languages steps up.
We will however not adopt it as some sort of official solution and take on maintainership that way.
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### Author:  [@es20490446e](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/es20490446e)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/adopting-qsyncthingtray/13844/6 "2019-10-02T19:34:30Z")
Okay, thanks for the info.