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Windows 7 Taskbar Support

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 1849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, michael <at> kleehammer.com
Subject: bug#1849: Windows 7 Taskbar Support
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 20:13:40 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:20:43 -0700
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 1849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael <at> kleehammer.com
> 
> >> > Unfortunately both of these require directly using the IPropertyStore
> >> > interface, which is only available on Windows versions since Vista, and
> >> > is missing from current mingw32 headers, so a significant amount of
> >> > reverse engineering system headers will be involved.
> >>
> >> This was four years ago.  Has this been fixed in the meantime?
> >
> > No, and it probably never will be.
> 
> That was five years ago.  Presumably, if it will never be fixed, life
> will move on and Windows 7 will be left on the dustbin of history.
> 
> Should we just go ahead and close this as wontfix?  Lars?

I'm not Lars, but I think that we should close it, indeed.

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