The System Tray Icon

Because LANT will be a background process and be minimised most of the time, the way the user can access LANT's vital tasks and options has to be obvious and quick.

Below is an annotated mock-up of where the user would find the default 'access point' to use LANT's features...



As is shown in this shot, the icon used for the system tray icon will heavily depend on any themes the user has applied, which is why it is important to let the user be able to customise which icon they use. For example if a user has a grey background or task-bar, the icons with many grey parts or transparent backgrounds would be hard to notice on a task bar, and so would not be easy to use.