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Comment by Aloha | Hacker News Reader

Is minimize to tray a really desirable feature? It's usually something I hate and disable.

It’s a feature I prefer. Anything I leave open all the time but only click rarely (like messaging apps) I prefer in the tray. This separates “apps I’m actively using” in the main area of the taskbar and “apps that are technically open but I’m not really using”

It’s also worth nothing there’s an option to disable hiding everything in the popout menu thing, a setting i usually change. Saves a click and that space is otherwise unused in the taskbar anyway

I think the philosophy here has sort of changed with newer versions of Windows, this is why the taskbar now has quicklaunch icons and regular app icons the same size and place. I keep all my "stuff that just stays open" like thunderbird, spotify, mumble and firefox to the left.

The flagged comment was:

> It’s been 16 years and they still haven’t implemented ‘minimize to task tray’ function. God I hate their philosophy so much.

Why was this so heavily down voted? If this is a bug report for 16 years, I would understand the frustration. After all, an email-program should put an icon next to clock in the taskbar.

People opened tickets on bugzilla. They have even developed an extension. (which seems to break on every major version upgrade)

It’s even not that hard to implement, it’s just they are valuing their stupid politics and philosophy over user experience.

You can install rbtray to get this behaviour globally for all Windows apps when you right-click the minimize button.

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