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.
e40 16 hours ago [-]
My guess: technical debt makes fixing it impossible. I can’t believe many Microsoft developers didn’t try to fix it.
nubinetwork 1 days ago [-]
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...
surajrmal 23 hours ago [-]
Does that make it okay? There are many ways to have it learn the process dies without needing to signal the process.
justsomehnguy 20 hours ago [-]
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?
inigyou 1 days ago [-]
That is correct
0x073 1 days ago [-]
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.
For all the hard work they did with driver updates, actual driver management still sucks very badly. Simple concepts such as pinning a driver, something that could be a checkbox, requires edits to the registry or group policy: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/146562-prevent-windows-u...
cosmotic 1 days ago [-]
Did they not look up the PC manufacturer or model number to verify this hypothesis?
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Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.
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?
It's maybe a bad API design, but in the end every app developer can fix it for their apps.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2311984