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[GH-ISSUE #1003] Windows tray icon is low resolution #803
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Originally created by @DSteve595 on GitHub (Jan 5, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/1003
On high-density displays, it's pretty ugly compared to other apps:
Worth noting, the taskbar icon looks good:
@albertony commented on GitHub (Jan 6, 2021):
Do you use the scaling feature in Windows 10? I see some issues related to that, so that may be one cause. See:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3025083/windows-scaling-issues-for-high-dpi-devices. But in your case it seems all other icons are fine, so probably not.
The system tray icons used by barrier are 16x16 pixels. I see that Microsoft recommends including both a 16x16 and a 32x32 icons, so maybe including 32x32 (or changing to 32x32 and let windows scale down to 16x16 when needed) would solve it.
@DSteve595 commented on GitHub (Jan 6, 2021):
Yes, I'm using scaling.
@albertony commented on GitHub (Jan 7, 2021):
I did a quick test with 32px icons, and that will solve the issue, it seems. Maybe consider also 64px icons, for extreme scaling scenarios, but I have not tested if that works and is necessary.
@p12tic: I could only find 16px versions of the windows tray icons in the repo, do you have higher resolution originals somewhere? Mainly the gui tray icon image files (barrier-connected.png/.xcf etc), but also the client/server icon files (tb_wait.ico, tb_idle.ico etc) would be nice (these are even worse, 16px with only 4 bit colors).
@p12tic commented on GitHub (Jan 10, 2021):
@albertony: I believe the originals were done by @walker0643, but he/she's nowhere to be found lately.
I actually wonder if it could be the time to redraw the icon, as it seems a little bit ugly to my eyes. It's fine when the project is just being started and there's no guarantees for its success, so it does not make sense to spend a lot of time on graphics. Now we know that a lot of people see this every day.
What do you think? If you agree, I could raise this with the rest of active Barrier developers and spend some effort designing it.
@albertony commented on GitHub (Jan 11, 2021):
Sounds like a really good idea! And then redesign all application icons, such as the main application icon, gui application tray icons, and client/server tray icons - probably make all just variants of the same.
@alourie commented on GitHub (Jan 14, 2021):
I'm using it on Linux 4k and it's really bad looking:
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so would appreciate some work on this.
@luccacondratiuk commented on GitHub (Feb 10, 2021):
@alourie, I'm also a linux user, it would be nice, if the tray icons weren't hardcoded... Then it could fit the System Icon theme (if the icon package has an icon designed of course...)