A new systray patch

[Alexandre Julliard]

Mike Hearn <mike at navi.cx> writes:

> If by explorer you mean things like the taskbar then yes, maybe once
> the winedesktop works gets in (I wonder what happened to that) we'll
> need some kind of task switcher/shell program. I don't think we need
> an entire file browser - there is winefile but who uses it? What is it
> for?
> There are native file browsers that work well.

That's not the reason, the reason is that there are apps that depend
on Explorer. It's for the same reason we have Notepad even though
there are better native editors.

> Calling it Explorer would imply that it's supposed to do everything
> Windows explorer does, which seems a bit dubious to me. It'd be like
> calling the wineserver the winekernel.

No, I don't see why it implies that it has to do everything the
Windows one does, but it has to do everything that some apps depend
on.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org