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Why do some people call the taskbar the "tray"?

てことで、僕らが呼んでるのは間違っててtasktrayじゃないんだよというお話。

I think the reason people started calling it the "system tray" is that on Win95 there was a program called "systray.exe" that displayed some icons in the notification area: volume control, PCMCIA (as it was then called) status, battery meter. If you killed systray.exe, you lost those notification icons. So people thought, "Ah, systray must be the component that manages those icons, and I bet its name is 'system tray'." Thus began the misconception that we have been trying to eradicate for over eight years...

systray.exeって、そもそもその命名が誤解を生んでるのでは・・・と思った。

あ、で、正しくは"notification area"だとか。確かにVS.NETのあそこに表示させるコンポーネント名は"notification icon"とか書いてあった記憶が。tasktrayじゃなかったからあそこにどうやってアイコン表示させるのか最初は割と悩んだ。