go-gtk vs systray

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go-gtk		systray
	Project
-	Mentions	6
2,077	Stars	3,116
-	Growth	1.8%
3.0	Activity	4.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Go	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

go-gtk

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-gtk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning go-gtk yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

systray

Posts with mentions or reviews of systray. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.

Systray is not showing icon.
3 projects | /r/golang | 28 Oct 2022

I am using github.com/getlantern/systray to show menu in the windows tray in my Wails app. It works fine during development and shows icon but in production it throws this error:
Toolkit-agnostic system tray in Go (based on getlantern, using DBus for Linux)
6 projects | /r/golang | 7 Mar 2022

thank you. i already saw it and merged it with my local temporary fork. in getlanterns repo is a windows-only PR for left click (WM_LBUTTONUP) - that and middle click (WM_MBUTTONUP) could be added together with the sni versions.
Is there is good GUI for Golang ?
18 projects | /r/golang | 12 Aug 2021

Just gonna give a shout out for https://github.com/getlantern/systray which I use in one of my projects. Tested on Windows and Linux Mint, works great.
Yet another way to convert a website (with backend) to desktop app
3 projects | dev.to | 6 Jan 2021

I use systray to show web server in Notification Area.
CLI for Windows with Go
8 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2020

Of course, already exists that library for using Notification Area. getlantern/systray

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-gtk and systray you can also consider the following projects:

gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3

fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go

qt - Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly

sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

nuklear - This project provides Go bindings for nuklear.h — a small ANSI C GUI library.

trayhost - Cross-platform Go library to place an icon in the host operating system's taskbar.

go-appindicator - :traffic_light: Go bindings for libappindicator3 C library

go-qml - QML support for the Go language

goqt - Golang bindings to the Qt cross-platform application framework.