https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46441
--- Comment #6 from Olivier F. R. Dierick o.dierick@piezo-forte.be --- (In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #5)
I also have patches in the works that get rid of "minimize to icon" behaviour altogether; see bug 7287 and associated Wine-Staging patch. I haven't tested but that probably solves this bug as well. As far as I'm aware this is probably the best way forward, as I don't think current Windows (or even as far back as XP) has any way to configure minimizing to icons, but I'd certainly welcome criticisms in that respect.
We need a way to restore the minimized windows when the taskbar is not visible. The "minimize to icon" feature can't be removed unless this is fixed first.
I think that the simplest fix is to remove the current auto-hide/auto-show linked to the numbers of icons in the systray and make the taskbar always visible. Now that the taskbar is always under other window, there should no be any issue.
An actual 'auto-hide' option could be added as an enhancement, after the taskbar option from bug 46437 is implemented.