Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

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Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby rseiler » 29 Mar 2012 20:34

I've been combing through VLC 2.01's endless advanced settings but am somehow missing the relatively basic feature of taskbar icon progress as a video plays in Win7. All sorts of programs do this now, from browsers to other media players. Where is it hidden?

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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 29 Mar 2012 23:57

It is not hidden, it is just not existing.
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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby rseiler » 05 Jan 2013 07:47

How about any means of adding it? This is not a far-out, obscure feature; it's expected at this point, and not just in video players.

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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 05 Jan 2013 08:11

It would be annoying, since a media player icon would almost always have it running and it is distracting.
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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby rseiler » 05 Jan 2013 08:48

It would be optional, like 8000 other things are in VLC. And also useful for some people, since you can tell where you are in a video when it's minimized....

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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby Synetech » 11 Jun 2013 21:23

Actually that would be a pretty handy feature. It would give easy and immediate visual access to how much of the video has elapsed and how much remains without having to activate the video window and press I or double-click the video window to look at the full-screen controls. Some networks even provide a progress indicator in-show! Obviously people like to have progress information (especially for tedious videos).

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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby Synetech » 09 Apr 2014 19:43

It would be annoying, since a media player icon would almost always have it running and it is distracting.
Ah ha! I knew I had seen this topic before. Like I said in the other thread, just because you may find it distracting is not a good excuse to prevent everybody from having it. Just make it default to being off, then everybody wins.

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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby rseiler » 09 Feb 2018 21:17

Just to be sure, since I'm not seeing it, is it not in 3.0?

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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby hajj_3 » 04 Feb 2019 11:44

is this available in 3.0.6 or is it planned for v4.0?

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Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

Postby rseiler » 04 Feb 2019 18:27

Not in 3.0.6, unless very well hidden.

At this point, I doubt we'll ever see it. Whoever runs the show clearly hates the feature (hard to believe there's a technical limitation considering how common the feature is across Windows apps where it's appropriate to have the feature in the first place).


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