Tray Update Badge

An orange dot on the tray icon tells you an update is waiting — even when the window is minimized.

When Blue Synergy finds a newer version in the background, it paints a small orange dot in the top-right corner of the tray icon. The tray tooltip also changes to “Blue Synergy — Update available”.

How it works

No action needed. Within 10 seconds of startup, Blue Synergy checks for updates silently. If a newer version is available:

  1. An orange dot appears on the tray icon.
  2. The tray tooltip changes to “Blue Synergy — Update available”.
  3. If the main window is open, an update banner also appears at the top of the window.

To clear the badge: dismiss the update banner in the main window, or install the update from Help → Check for Updates.

Tips & gotchas

  • The badge only appears when a newer version is actually available — it won’t show for the same version you already dismissed.
  • If the update server is unreachable at startup, no badge appears and no error is shown.
  • The badge is painted on the tray icon at runtime — no separate image file needed.

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