Bug report: tray icon disappears when explorer.exe crashes

[curupira]

The Bug: When explorer.exe crashes (kinda commonly here, unfortunatelly), Deluge's tray icon disappears.When Deluge is minimized to tray, and the icon is not there, I can't access it nor close it (unless by telling windows task manager to shutdown deluge's process, or by loging off).

Operating system: Windows 2000 Professional.

How to replicate the bug:
1. Open Deluge
2. Minimize to tray
3. Force explorer.exe to close (eg. via windows task manager)

[loki]

This does indeed happen, in vista too...

[Rockyblizzard]

It happened to me too.

[johnnyg]

when explorer.exe crashes sometimes tray icons disappear, I don't see how this is deluge's fault though or if markybob will be able to do anything to fix it...

[dude09]

This is the OS problem, not Deluge or any application that support tray-icon feature.
This also happened to many applications...

[curupira]

In my experience, there exists icons that never disappear when explorer.exe crashes (sound volume, MSN messenger, emule, avast, agnitum firewall, daemon tools, foobar2000, pidgin) and icons that always disappear (deluge).

I don't know the reason, though. Perhaps it's some kind of periodic self-check ("if tray icon is enabled and there is no tray icon, re-create it"). Even pidgin, that I think it used to disappear when explorer.exe crashed, now returns.

So, I think it is something fixable. And not Gtk+'s fault, since Pidgin managed to make its tray icon return.

Anyway, I'd like to thank everybody who spent time replying and, of course, thank all developers who made this great open source app.