Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
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Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
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Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#2Did they not look up the PC manufacturer or model number to verify this hypothesis?
Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#3Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades?
Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.
Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#4For all the hard work they did with driver updates, actual driver management still sucks very badly. Simple concepts such as pinning a driver, something that could be a checkbox, requires edits to the registry or group policy: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/146562-prevent-windows-u...
Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#5Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades? Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.
I'm guessing its some ipc that only adds or removes entries, but when you mouseover it sends a signal to the killed process, realizes its gone, and only then deletes the icon from the systray...
Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#6Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades? Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.
I'm guessing its some ipc that only adds or removes entries, but when you mouseover it sends a signal to the killed process, realizes its gone, and only then deletes the icon from the systray...
That is correct
Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#7Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades? Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.
This is a bug of the application and not of windows.
It's maybe a bad API design, but in the end every app developer can fix it for their apps.
Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#8Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades? Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.
I'm guessing its some ipc that only adds or removes entries, but when you mouseover it sends a signal to the killed process, realizes its gone, and only then deletes the icon from the systray...
Does that make it okay? There are many ways to have it learn the process dies without needing to signal the process.
Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#9Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades? Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.
Re: Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing its some ipc that only adds or removes entries, but when you mouseover it sends a signal to the killed process, realizes its gone, and only then deletes the icon from the systray...
Does that make it okay? There are many ways to have it learn the process dies without needing to signal the process.
Yes, let's invent some system for Explorer to query and maintain the notification area icons and for the apps to report their list of the notification icons. Some KPI pusher would be vewy-vewy glad.
By the way, if the app wouldn't respond in time, what should happen with the icon? What would happen if Explorer removes the icon but the app which still thinks it has - would update it?