linuxdeployqt VS syncthingtray

Compare linuxdeployqt vs syncthingtray and see what are their differences.

linuxdeployqt

Makes Linux applications self-contained by copying in the libraries and plugins that the application uses, and optionally generates an AppImage. Can be used for Qt and other applications (by probonopd)

syncthingtray

Tray application and Dolphin/Plasma integration for Syncthing (by Martchus)
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linuxdeployqt

Posts with mentions or reviews of linuxdeployqt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
  • Two reasons because Arch-based AppImages are not a good idea
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 5 May 2023
    The second reason is the "modularity" of Arch, why Debian packages all the dependences in many different packages? Because a developer can isolate a bug or exclude that package using the right patch. Arch tends to package everything together. That's why an AppImage of Chromium for me is about 140 MB from a Ubuntu base and 280-300 from an Arch-base... but at least this is an issue of both arch-deployer and arch2appimage... I think that by using linuxdeployqt would be better in this case (SPOILER, it requires the host system with an old GLIBC version, also Debian Bookwork is too new for it xD ).
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    7 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2022
    linuxdeployqt allow to automatically pack all shared library that we need on binary file into single AppImage file, although linuxdeployqt mainly to generate AppImage for Qt application but it can use for general application, more information on https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt.
  • Are you able to build a qt project into just exe?
    2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 21 Apr 2021
    You are looking for the windows equivalent of Mac DMG format, or linux appimage https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/ / Flatpak.
  • Building an AppImage with linuxdeployqt
    3 projects | /r/QtFramework | 14 Apr 2021
    I am trying to use linuxdeployqt to create an appimage.

syncthingtray

Posts with mentions or reviews of syncthingtray. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
  • I got this notification, WTF?
    2 projects | /r/kde | 9 Jun 2023
    This is part of the testsuite of https://github.com/Martchus/qtutilities which you are likely building for https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray. It exercises the code to create notifications.
  • Syncthing, proper installed as a autostart windows service with controls from system tray ? What are the options ?
    2 projects | /r/Syncthing | 20 Nov 2022
    My Syncthing Tray (https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray) can cope with Syncthing being started independently of it just fine. There's no installer, just a self-contained executable. If you use its internal launcher nevertheless (instead of a system service) then its auto start feature could cover Syncthing as well and you can start/stop Syncthing from the tray. (That is therefore the intended use on Windows where service integration hasn't been implemented yet).
  • I created SyncThingy: syncthing + simple tray icon written in C++, not more and not less
    3 projects | /r/linux | 6 Sep 2022
    I do agree that it could be a lot of effort to do it, though. I didn't necessarily want to bring this up because I don't want to take away from the fact that you made something, but there already is a Qt-based tray-centric frontend, Syncthing Tray, which does have an informative status icon. Is there a particular reason you made your own application instead of making a Flathub package for this one?
  • Are you able to build a qt project into just exe?
    2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 21 Apr 2021
    It is possible. I'm usually building my apps under Arch Linux for Windows using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mingw-w64-qt5-base-static. Of course this way of building it is not officially supported at all by upstream but it works for me using CMake and I guess qmake should work as well. I've also already created packages to cross compile against Qt 6. This is how the result looks like when one also bundles all other resources (and in this case even an application with in Go): https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray/releases/tag/v1.1.5

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