[sylpheed:34816] Re: "Show icon and notifications" not holding for Sylpheed in Win 7/32

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Mon Sep 26 11:14:24 JST 2011


Hello,

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:54:04 -0600
Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I also have the same problem on my Win 7/64 laptop.  I much prefer the
> XP-style Notification Area than Win 7's.  
> 
> Hiro, I don't know if Microsoft is just blowing us off, but two of us
> are seeing two similar (or identical) problems with Sylpheed on Win
> 7: email web links and Notification Area glitches.  What do you think?

I also see the notification area glitch :)
I tried to solve the problem, but I couldn't find how Windows 7
distinguish the notification icons.

Does anyone know the technical detail of Windows 7 notification area?


> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:38:13 -0400
> Bill Pratt <pratt at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have exactly the same problem with Sylpheed and Win 7/64. The only
> > way I've found to get around it and to always show the Sylpheed icon
> > in the notification area is in Control Panel to check the option
> > "Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar". Of course
> > I'd rather have the option since this automatically displays several
> > icons I'd prefer to hide.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:05:04 -0600
> > Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > 
> > > The instructions for Win 7 say that to show an icon in the
> > > Notification Area all the time, you change the option to "Show icon
> > > and notifications." That setting is not holding here for Sylpheed.
> > > It reverts to "Only show notifications." In fact, if I close and
> > > reopen Sylpheed (between/within computer sessions), a second
> > > Sylpheed entry appears in the Notification Area pop up list showing
> > > the same setting. This disappearing act was an occasional problem
> > > with XP, but is constant with Win 7. 
> > > 
> > > I posted the issue on Microsoft Answers forum and a "support
> > > engineer" got back to me that, "The issue is  related to email
> > > client, I would suggest you to contact the email client support."
> > > 
> > > Gene Goldenfeld


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Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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