why don't system tray icons display?

In message , Ed Mc
writes:
On 2/24/2018 12:03 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:10:23 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
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In the Notification area (that's what "system tray" was called the week
they designed W7),



It was always called "Notification area." "System tray" was (and still
is) just an informal name for it.

Strange; I don't know where I first encountered "system tray", but it's
certainly not a phrase I'd have used if I hadn't seen others using it.
.

"System tray", to me, would be the CD tray.

I agree, "system tray" certainly doesn't immediately conjure up to me
what it actually does. Notification area if anything is better in that
respect ("notification" actually gives, arguably, at least some idea of
what its purpose is, and it _is_ an "area"), if it wasn't such a
mouthful. But I've seen a lot of places use "system tray" - the latest
being this morning, an old WinAmp "Preferences" page uses "show an icon
in the system tray."

(But my tongue-in cheek reference, above, to "the week they designed
W7", was really just a little {dig at}/{moan about} the practice,
especially by Microsoft, of changing the names for all sorts of things,
that people have got used to knowing them by.)
--
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The first banjo solo I played was actually just a series of mistakes. In fact
it was all the mistakes I knew at the time. - Tim Dowling, RT2015/6/20-26

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:01:34 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Ed Mc
writes:
On 2/24/2018 12:03 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:10:23 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
[]
In the Notification area (that's what "system tray" was called the week
they designed W7),



It was always called "Notification area." "System tray" was (and still
is) just an informal name for it.

Strange; I don't know where I first encountered "system tray", but it's
certainly not a phrase I'd have used if I hadn't seen others using it.
.

"System tray", to me, would be the CD tray.



OK, but if you say it meaning that, almost everyone will
misunderstand you.

On 2/26/2018 3:34 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:01:34 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:


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"System tray", to me, would be the CD tray.



OK, but if you say it meaning that, almost everyone will
misunderstand you.

Ah yes, so true. And almost everyone today can't get through the day
without some kind of electronic device in their possession.
--
Ed Mc