Talk:Taskbar

message: Perhaps the Acorn RISC OS 'taskbar' should be mentioned -- it was a grey panel at the bottom of the screen, that displayed the icons of running programs along with a 'main menu' (Acorn logo'). Not identical to Windows' taskbar, but very similar and predates it by several years. 86.131.35.35 19:57, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually it doesn't predate Windows Taskbar with several years. Windows 1.0x had a taskbar-like panel in the bottom, showing the running tasks in iconified state. This was in 1985, two years before RISC OS ;) Dylansmrjones 17:52, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  that's not a taskbar, it's iconified windows on the desktop  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 16:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

text:  In Talk:Dock_(computing)#Iconbar_Removal, the creator of the RISC OS iconbar mentions it was also created in 1985. He doesn't give a more specific date, and neither does Microsoft, so it's unclear which came first. He mentions Apple's MacOS Dock as inspiration, which implies the Microsoft version wasn't around at the time. REH11 (talk) 15:33, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Acorn RISC OS taskbar

message: Some of the information under the "Other desktop environments" is erroneous. The writer seems to be under the impression that the Kicker configuration that they have seen in some Linux distribution (or other *nix) which they describe is the only way Kicker can be configured. In fact the configuration they describe is quite exotic, and they unnecessarily compare the Kicker applets to their Windows equivalents.
It would also be nice to have some information on Mac OSX Dock's feature when a window is minimised and the GNOME Panel's 'window list,' unless this article is intended to focus on Windows Taskbar (if so that should be it's name). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.69.247.235 (talk) 09:33, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect 

message: Jonnylinuxnerd 18:06, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sign your name below if you think 'Taskbar clock replacements' article should be merged with the 'Taskbar' article 

message: Something I find incredibly annoying in Windows XP is that I have a bunch of icons near my clock that I don't want there. I've tried telling windows to stop loading them when it starts up through a multitude of ways but nothing works. It would be great if this article told people how to solve this problem. Doom jester 18:37, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's an encyclopaedia, not a how-to guide. That's it. Lukys (talk) 08:10, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Getting rid of stupid unnecessary icons 

message: would be nice if someone upload a standard gnome-panel(top and bottom)Praka123 02:43, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  gnome-panel 

message: For me, the systray is the stuff on the very right, just next to the clock. ("Unpliug or eject hardware", "language" ...) So isn't there a difference between Taskbar and systray? (As mentioned in the references, systray is a never used, but planned term, but i'd still call the most right stuff systray.) --Saippuakauppias ⇄ 23:45, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Systray 

message: Can we use the diagram in this article . It seems to be a clear diagram of the elements of the taskbar but i'm not sure about the copyright issues? --neonwhite  user page talk 15:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram 

message: The patent for the taskbar as it shipped in Windows 95 appears to be US5757371, which they filed for on Dec 14 1995. For what it is worth it uses the words "notification area". Patent 5825357 appears to refer to Cairo and is a "continuation" of an abandoned 1993 application. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 14:37, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've given up trying.  I won't get into another edit war.  This was all settled, but based on one person's reading of an old patent, they use that as justification for changing the *name* of the component in question.  The patent in question refers to the Cairo-style interface, which was as a starting point during Windows 95 development and is not definitive. Regardless, the patent isn't the source of the name of the component; the documentation is.  I've shown dozens of places in the documentation of the Windows product where it's called "[taskbar] notification area".  That's the name of the portion of the taskbar, you can call it whatever you want, but that's not it's given name.Charles Oppermann (talk) 18:04, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you happy with the article as it currently stands? Just in case someone edits before you read this, I'm referring to this version. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 19:08, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I am, thank you. Charles Oppermann (talk) 05:01, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Actually if you look closely, the systray APIs just refer to the functions that were controlled by the systray.exe application that Raymond Chen mentioned in his blog, not the actual taskbar notification area itself. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 23:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Which might as well be. It's not that I ever called this thing SysTray, nor that I am going to. It's just that I find it inordinately funny that people started some sort of a crusade over the question if a moniker that has been used is to considered incorrect or not. Keep up the good work!--Jost Riedel (talk) 10:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I find this all fascinating 

message: Do we really need a screenshot for each version? Most of the differences between the screenshots are really just differences in settings (some of them not even the default for the version shown):
* The theme or color scheme
* The presence and content of the Quick Launch toolbar
* The contents of the notification area
* What format the time is displayed in
* The size of the task buttons
* Whether or not the titles of running programs are shown
The only meaningful difference is the button for hidden notification icons and the Aero Peek button. - Josh (talk | contribs) 01:42, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry but you don't see any value in having a screenshot of the original implementation of the Windows taskbar, or a screenshot of the Windows taskbar that is going to be most familiar to readers? I've restored both.AlistairMcMillan (talk) 09:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screenshots 

message: In the beginning/lead of the article it would be valuable with a screen shot of an entire desktop to illustrate what the task bar is and where it is located. --Mortense (talk) 12:12, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screen shot needed for clarity 

message: It would just make this article so neat and shiny. Thanks!
(Question, why doesn't Wikipedia auto-sign anonymous posts? doesn't it make sense that things SHOULD be that way? And also, why isn't there any "underline text" button in this form?
Thanks!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.125.191.144 (talk) 20:08, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could someone please add a screenshot of the Vista Taskbar as well? 

message: Would like to see some information integrated on the Microsoft taskbar patent http://www.google.com/patents/US5920316 98.127.132.122 (talk) 03:47, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microsoft Patent 

message: Windows 1.0 had a taskbar of sorts in which iconized programs would reside and I think it should be mentioned in the article. However, it wouldn't fit in the main Windows section, and it was never referred to as a taskbar, and its function wasn't exactly identical. So I propose creating a new section, "Predecessors". We would mention this feature in it, and move the implementations currently mentioned in "Other desktop environments" that precede Win95's taskbar to it. - Wikizzer (talk) 23:42, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows 1 

message: Why would the bar containing the charms be considered a type of taskbar? An appropriate place to discuss the charms is Windows shell. - Josh (talk | contribs) 23:22, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is no objection I would like to move the charms content here to Windows shell. - Josh (talk | contribs) 20:28, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charms 

message: Does the third party task bars really belong in the early implementation section?  They seem to have been developed much later.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.78.148.35 (talk) 22:57, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amiga? 

message: I want to do some little changes to the order of pictures in this section of the article. I think it will be better if the Windows 95 taskbar will be the first from the top, then the XP, 7, 8 and lastly the 8.1 version at the bottom. Though the pictures may be on discussion, I might improve the article by reordering the pictures such that they show the chronological order of the taskbar versons. Is my suggestion better than the current version, or should it be retained? Japanese Rail Fan (talk) 03:56, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microsoft Windows section taskbar pictures 

message: Content overlap is significant. WP:SIZERULE also recommends a merger because readable prose size of Dock (computing) is at 2 KB. Taskbar article already has a section in it. Codename Lisa (talk) 10:13, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Dock (computing)]] 

message: This article needs to be updated to include Windows 10... Quick Launch is rumored to be hidden by default in recent versions of Windows but can perhaps still be activated in tricky ways, maybe even in Win10.-71.174.176.65 (talk) 13:55, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows 10 - Quick Launch 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion 

message: I noticed Notification area contained exactly the same text as Taskbar#Taskbar_elements so I redirected it here. Technically a merge I believe, except since the content was here, there was no content to copy into here.  I am mentioning it here so there is some record of it on the target side. Sorry if I did it the wrong way, but WP:BOLD.
* I also copied the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Software interest tag over.
* I also noticed Notification Area (the same thing but with a capital A) was already redirecting here, so I added some reasons to that redirect page.
* I did not initiate a discussion as per the "Need for a merge is obvious" rules as per WP:MERGEINIT, WP:BB       tsilb (talk) 00:41, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged from [[Notification area]] 

message: Add a section that mentions the taskbar status icons. 111.88.15.221 (talk) 18:13, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taskbar status icons section 

message: Windows 11 has been released for a while; its taskbar being added to the Windows section would be good. Is this OK? (NB: I don't have an image of the Windows 11 taskbar) by Mariobros12345 (T • C) 12:26, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Windows 11 taskbar 

message: What provides interface to interect with a computer 39.50.75.224 (talk) 05:32, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  COMPUTER 

message: ‏یارب دا  ارمان مو پوره کړه😭🙏🙏🙏 203.171.100.105 (talk) 05:14, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hamad