Comments on: System Tray Icon Update http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/ The official AllPeers blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:57:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: James http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/#comment-50821 James Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:59:57 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/#comment-50821 For Linux, http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkStatusIcon.html http://live.gnome.org/GtkStatusIconTutorial For Linux, http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkStatusIcon.html http://live.gnome.org/GtkStatusIconTutorial

]]> By: Don Quixote http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/#comment-50817 Don Quixote Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:34:49 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/#comment-50817 Ya, this is just fighting windmills (and if I were dead serious about this, I would have commented on the bug, not here) - I still wonder (and this is a more general wondering, not addressed to you :)) how someone can read <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shell_notifyicon.asp" rel="nofollow">"Sends a message to the taskbar's status [hm, is this a doc bug?] area"</a> in the documentation for <code>Shell_NotifyIcon</code> and still name the thing wrong. The reason because They call it the "system tray" is not a good one, though, otherwise Firefox would be FireFox or even Iceweasle ;) As for the functionallity to minimize windows to the "area next to the clock": I begin to presume that power users want to have an "icon only" mode for the taskbar, otherwise these massive request to flood this mis-named and abused area does not make much sense. Anyway, I am looking forward to hear about the strategy to implement this binding on the other platforms. P.S.: Is it just me or is the comment textarea a tad small? Ya, this is just fighting windmills (and if I were dead serious about this, I would have commented on the bug, not here) - I still wonder (and this is a more general wondering, not addressed to you :)) how someone can read “Sends a message to the taskbar’s status [hm, is this a doc bug?] area” in the documentation for Shell_NotifyIcon and still name the thing wrong. The reason because They call it the “system tray” is not a good one, though, otherwise Firefox would be FireFox or even Iceweasle ;)

As for the functionallity to minimize windows to the “area next to the clock”: I begin to presume that power users want to have an “icon only” mode for the taskbar, otherwise these massive request to flood this mis-named and abused area does not make much sense.

Anyway, I am looking forward to hear about the strategy to implement this binding on the other platforms.

P.S.: Is it just me or is the comment textarea a tad small?

]]> By: Ron http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/#comment-50795 Ron Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:03:44 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/#comment-50795 And to echo what many of the comments said: *no one* in the real world calls it the "taskbar notification area". They call it the "system tray". So System Tray it is. And to echo what many of the comments said: *no one* in the real world calls it the “taskbar notification area”. They call it the “system tray”. So System Tray it is.

]]> By: Don Quixote http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/#comment-50793 Don Quixote Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:45:46 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/23/system-tray-icon-update/#comment-50793 There is no such thing like the <em>system tray</em> as <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/10/54831.aspx" rel="nofollow">Raymond Chen explains here</a>. There is no such thing like the system tray as Raymond Chen explains here.

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