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One-Click vs. Double- and/or Right-Click in taskbar
Thats not logic. In the taskbar you need one click to open a minimized window. To open a program in the quick launch bar, you need one click, too. BUT when you want to open something in the notification area, you have to use a double-click or a right click (depends on program). Why? The clock is the only application in notification area, that opens on a left click. The others just show the same thing like when doing a right-click. I can't find a logic reason for that. On desktop, in explorer, etc. it is OK that you have to do a double click, because the one click is for selecting. But on notification area, there is no reason for that...
Please standardize how to open something in the taskbar. One click to start something in the notification area would be much more logic.
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Discussion (5 comments)
Voted down. Behavior of icons in system tray depends on application, not on Windows.
ACK! Voted down, too.
I think I see what the person is trying to get at. While, it may not be a part of Windows, it should be an application behavior that should be regulated by some type of UI guideline. If Microsoft does not take the lead on defining how users interact with icons in the system tray, I doubt that other companies will band together and define a consistent pattern moving forward. Some of the windows application are right/left click independent (Outlook 2007 & Windows Defender). While others present different options depending on if you right or left click (Volume, Network, and Task Manager). Double clicking should always be used to bring an icon back from the system tray, yet right and left clicking in the system tray is ambiguous to the point that I could see the user getting confused.
Demoted with prejudice. There are already guidelines for this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511448.aspx#guidelines
maxico86 wrote on June 16, 2008, 9:12am
Changed problem description.