New subject: [Bug 11733] App main window fails to remove task bar entry on minimizing

26 Feb 2008


      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11733
Summary: App main window fails to remove task bar entry on
                    minimizing
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.55.
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://wxtide32.com/
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org
        ReportedBy: n5470@pinefields.com
Under Windows WXTide32 minimizes its main window to a system tray icon, *if*
the icon is selected as "always" or "When minimized".  Under Wine, the icon
appears as controlled by the preference choices ("always", "When minimized", or
not at all if not selected).  However, the main window always minimizes to its
task bar entry and does not minimize the tray icon under any circumstance
tested to date.
This is not a debilitating problem as far as using the app goes(*).  On
restoring the window by clicking on its taskbar entry, a window frame and
appropriate decorations (minimize, maximize, and close icons created by the
window manager [e.g., Gnome or KDE managers], for example) are drawn.  The
interior of the window contains whatever was inside the area outlined by the
window frame, prior to its being drawn.  More importantly, no tide graphs are
drawn.  This is consistent with the app's behavior under Windows, where asking
the app to draw, again, the last graph displayed is treated as a "no action"
event.
...
From a user interface design standpoint, this "no action" action is flawed (I
see no reason not to restore the same graph twice or more in a row) but it's
what the app's author wrote and it's not about to be changed.  However, poor UI
design is not the central issue here.
The central issue is simply: does Wine support "minimize to tray" and, if it
does, why does this not happen with WXTide32.  If "minimize to tray" is not
presently supported, development of such support seems indicated.  Further, if
"minimize to tray" is supported under Wine and doesn't happen, then WXTide32
has encountered a bug.
See the attached images in Bug 11563 for examples of WXTide32 under
Windows(XP), and under Wine (0.9.56).
- - -
(*)  The workaround for the "restore to an empty window" problem is to use an
existing popup menu,tied to the tray icon, to open the window with any other
format than the one checked in the list of four formats.  With the window
opened and filled, right click in the window and pick the original, desired
format, which is then displayed as expected.
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[Bug 11733] New: App main window fails to remove task bar entry on minimizing