Skip to content

Add ShowInTaskbar setting to display window in taskbar #1818

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom
Merged
emako merged 2 commits into from
Nov 25, 2025
Merged

Add ShowInTaskbar setting to display window in taskbar #1818

emako merged 2 commits into from
Nov 25, 2025

Conversation

Copy link
Contributor

Copilot AI commented Nov 25, 2025 •
edited
Loading

PR Checklist

  • Functionality has been tested, no obvious bugs
  • Code style follows project conventions
  • Documentation/comments updated (if applicable)

Brief Description of Changes

Adds configurable ShowInTaskbar setting (default: false) to allow users to display the preview window on the Windows taskbar.

  • Reads setting via SettingHelper.Get("ShowInTaskbar", false) in ViewerWindow constructor
  • Follows existing pattern used by Topmost setting

To enable: Add to QuickLook.config:

<ShowInTaskbar>True</ShowInTaskbar>

Related Issue (if any)

Fixes #1233

Additional Notes

V4 implementation uses config file only per issue discussion. Settings Page UI planned for V5.

Original prompt

This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Display a window on the taskbar</issue_title>
<issue_description>As the title suggests, is it possible to display a window on the taskbar?
It is helpful to judge whether a preview windows is open and when keeping it open.</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Add a new option to display a window on the taskbar, and default is False.</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@emako This is a feature that was planned for QL V5. @emako This is mainly due to the Settings Page function of the V5 version. I will consider using the configuration file to implement in the V4 version first.

✨ Let Copilot coding agent set things up for you — coding agent works faster and does higher quality work when set up for your repo.

@emako
Add ShowInTaskbar setting to display window in taskbar
99b11a0 
Co-authored-by: emako <24737061+emako@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Add option to display window on taskbar Add ShowInTaskbar setting to display window in taskbar Nov 25, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from emako November 25, 2025 16:12
@emako emako marked this pull request as ready for review November 25, 2025 16:51
@emako emako merged commit bf7de3b into master Nov 25, 2025
2 checks passed
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Reviewers

@emako emako Awaiting requested review from emako

Assignees

@emako emako

Copilot code review Copilot

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Milestone

No milestone

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

Display a window on the taskbar PDF and docs thumbnail scrolling runs way too fast

2 participants

@emako