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zelphirkalt a day ago

Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades?

Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.

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e40 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My guess: technical debt makes fixing it impossible. I can’t believe many Microsoft developers didn’t try to fix it.

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nubinetwork a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm guessing its some ipc that only adds or removes entries, but when you mouseover it sends a signal to the killed process, realizes its gone, and only then deletes the icon from the systray...

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surajrmal 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does that make it okay? There are many ways to have it learn the process dies without needing to signal the process.

	▲	justsomehnguy 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, let's invent some system for Explorer to query and maintain the notification area icons and for the apps to report their list of the notification icons. Some KPI pusher would be vewy-vewy glad. By the way, if the app wouldn't respond in time, what should happen with the icon? What would happen if Explorer removes the icon but the app which still thinks it has - would update it?

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inigyou a day ago | parent | prev [-]

That is correct

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0x073 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is a bug of the application and not of windows.

It's maybe a bad API design, but in the end every app developer can fix it for their apps.

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justsomehnguy 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030910-00/?p=42...

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2311984