VB6 applications do not appear in Task Manager (KDE 4)

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VB6 applications do not appear in Task Manager (KDE 4)

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Wine version: 1.4

Any application compiled by VB6 (even most simple like Project1.exe you can download from here) does not appear in Task Manager bar (KDE 12.04).

Pressing ALT+Tab shows TWO entries. One with the window thumbnail, and one completele blank (zero size form). The zero-sized entry carries the application name, and the thumbnailed entry shows the current form caption instead. Neither appear in Task Managers bar. When the form is minimized there is no trace of the running program beside pressing ALT+tab.

Funny thing is that System Tray entries show perfectly including pop-up (baloon) windows.

Interesting note: If the project is compiled with main forms ShowInTaskBar=FALSE then the main window does not appear in the Taskbar but the message box, when displayed, does ! You can download Project2.exe to see this from here.

Native win32 programs (like Total Commander) show perfectly. Even Visual Studio IDE (VB6) shows (and works) good.

I've tried to switch off integration with the linux environment but it does not help. I found no related errors in wine log.

In Unity (latest 12.04 update) it seems that everything works fine, though Unity doesn't realy have usefull taskmanager after all. But at least the program name is displayed correctly and there is no double entry on ALT+Tab combination. So it must be something with Plasma and KDE.

Is there a way to fix this in KDE ?
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