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Bug 193514 - Provide better support for pinning NetBeans to the windows taskbar
Summary: Provide better support for pinning NetBeans to the windows taskbar
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Launchers&CLI (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Jiri Rechtacek
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Reported: 2010-12-16 18:51 UTC by rptmaestro
Modified: 2012-05-10 07:32 UTC (History)
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Description rptmaestro 2010-12-16 18:51:38 UTC 
In Windows 7, when I pin NetBeans shortcut to the taskbar, clicking the NetBeans shortcut from the taskbar will initially cause the icon to be highlighted, but then it creates a second process icon in the taskbar for the actual application process, contrary to the standard behavior of Windows 7 applications. I assume this aberrant behavior may have something to do with the netbeans.exe launcher creating a separate javaw process.

This may not be a big thing, but it is annoyingly inconsistent with standard Windows 7 behavior. Moreover, fixing this issue would reduce unnecessary clutter in the developer's taskbar.

Other Java applications executed directly from javaw.exe do not experience this behavior. For example, I have an Java application that I use regularly. My Windows shortcut is set up with the following properties:

Target:   C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe -jar C:\XQDev\bin\xqdev.jar
Start In: C:\XQDev\
Icon:     C:\XQDev\bin\xqdev.ico

I can pin this shortcut to the Windows 7 taskbar and after executing it, I can continue to use the same taskbar icon to switch to the app as normal, without a separate process icon being added to the taskbar.
Comment 1 Geertjan Wielenga 2011-01-07 20:37:15 UTC 
http://www.strixcode.com/sevenbeans/
Comment 2 Chowarmaan 2011-12-30 05:07:59 UTC 
Gimp, Inkscape, ArgoUML and MySQL Workbench will all work properly as well.  The extra icon is not a big thing, but it is annoying when you have a number of tasks open that developers normally do during the day.
Comment 3 Jiri Rechtacek 2012-02-16 16:57:18 UTC 
Assigned to new owner.
Comment 4 Libor Fischmeistr 2012-05-10 07:26:46 UTC 
This has been solved as a bug (http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199782 ). The solution was creation of 64-bit launcher. Will be included in 7.2.

This issue appears when running 32-bit NB on 64-bit JVM and conversely 64-bit NB on 32-bit JVM. Simply you cannot start 32-bit process from 64-bit one... That's why javaw is started.

In 7.2 there will be two launchers 32 and 64-bit. You should choose one of them due to JDK version. Also while installation the correct one is chosen due to selected JDK.
Comment 5 Libor Fischmeistr 2012-05-10 07:32:49 UTC 
Sorry, bad link attached. The correct one: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178273