From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 1849@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
michael@kleehammer.com
Subject: bug#1849: Windows 7 Taskbar Support
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:20:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkqwNyCdTDOk4FsqBQQ+hLFH8XOxcncrpn8bBZK2Vthyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831t7va66y.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:26:29 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:20:15 +1100
>> Cc: 1849@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > It seems that this is only partially done. Emacs, emacsclient and
>> > runemacs are setting the AppUserModel ID consistently, so when running
>> > their windows will group together. But there are two remaining changes
>> > before this can be considered complete:
>> >
>> > 1. Set the AppUserModel ID on the shortcut created by addpm.exe, so
>> > dragging the shortcut to the taskbar will work as expected (pinned
>> > shortcut grouped with windows of running emacs).
>> >
>> > 2. Set the AppUserModel RelaunchCommand property of Emacs windows to
>> > "runemacs.exe" so that pinning an running Emacs instance works as expected
>> > (launch via runemacs.exe so the command window does not show).
>> >
>> > Unfortunately both of these require directly using the IPropertyStore
>> > interface, which is only available on Windows versions since Vista, and
>> > is missing from current mingw32 headers, so a significant amount of
>> > reverse engineering system headers will be involved.
>>
>> This was four years ago. Has this been fixed in the meantime?
>
> No, and it probably never will be.
That was five years ago. Presumably, if it will never be fixed, life
will move on and Windows 7 will be left on the dustbin of history.
Should we just go ahead and close this as wontfix? Lars?
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-01-10 18:33 ` bug#1849: Windows 7 Taskbar Support Michael Kleehammer
2009-01-11 14:21 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-11 14:30 ` Processed: " Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-06-30 16:05 ` bug#1849: marked as done (Windows 7 Taskbar Support) Emacs bug Tracking System
2012-01-07 4:26 ` bug#1849: Windows 7 Taskbar Support Jason Rumney
2012-01-09 17:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2016-02-29 4:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 16:20 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-19 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 17:38 ` Stefan Kangas
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