Closed Bug 26755 Opened 25 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Program icon invisible when background color is the same as icon color

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
UI Design
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: henrik, Assigned: law)

References

Details

(Keywords: verifyme)

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hi :-)

The Program icon in windows (32) is very nice, except its background color is 
the same as the background color in the Quick Launch bar. This makes the icon 
"almost" invisible. Almost since i can see some dark grey lines.
This occurs on the Windows startmenu and file explorer as well.
The problem seems to be that the background is transparent and the foreground is
very close to the default Windows button color, which is used on the startmenu
 and it's too bright for file explorer, which uses a white background.

Moving all UE/UI bugs to new component: User Interface: Design Feedback
UE/UI component will be deleted.
Component: UE/UI → User Interface: Design Feedback
Mozillazine has an icon page up - http://www.mozillazine.org/chrome/icons.html.
I'm using the moz-communicator.ico icon from the Windows list as my desktop
icon, and it looks pretty good.  If even temporary, this would be better than
the gray M, I think.

I thought this one was fixed with the new icons in the mozilla build. Can we 
mark this one fixed?
eli?
*** Bug 29060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This issue remains on 2000031008 Win32 Mozilla build.

*** Bug 29316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Basically, the main point of all these program icon bugs are that the icons at 
least on windows suck for mozilla right now.  Mozillazine has a ton of icons, in 
http://www.mozillazine.org/jason/icons/, http://www.mozillazine.org/splash/, 
and http://www.mozillazine.org/chrome/icons.html .  Lots of good icons, yet we 
still have an awful grey icon for moz.  If any work needs to be done on these, i 
can do it, just drop me a line with a choice, and i can fix em up for you.
reassign it to don to find an eng. owner. we'll need an engineer to own this bug 
for mozilla. don, anyone from your group? Mozillazine has many newly modified 
desktop icons that's better than what we have for mozilla build. But I dont kow 
who can check in the icons.
Assignee: shuang → don
Just to chime in here, the Windows icon is nigh-unusable when added to the Quick 
Launch bar, which is going to be (based on 4.x experience) something that will 
eventually automatically be done by the commercial installer. Would someone 
please fix this? Thanks.
*** Bug 31966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I submitted MozillaZine some icons for Mozilla 
(http://www.mozillazine.org/chrome/icons.html), but the newest ones are at:
http://au.4mg.com/moz.htm
I've also had many problems with the current icon. It becomes distorted and 
unrecognizable when its in 16x16 form (normal is 32x32, Windows shrinks it for 
the toolbar and in the upper-left)- I think I fixed it in moz-m_gray.ico
Moving to XPApps.

I'm violating bug etiquette and assigning it a target milestone myself, so that 
it appears on Don's radar screen.

CC:ing Ben, in case he knows someone more appropriate than Don for adding new 
Mozilla Win32 icons (irregardless of which set they are.)
Component: User Interface: Design Feedback → XPApps
Target Milestone: --- → M16
Reassigning for Don
Assignee: don → law
Target Milestone: M16 → M18
Move to M21 target milestone.
Target Milestone: M18 → M21
QA Contact: elig → sairuh
nav triage team:

This bug looks a little old; the mozilla app icon is now the long tail gecko. 
Looks ok on taskbar under win2k. Not stopping beta1 for this. Marking nsbeta1-
Keywords: nsbeta1-
It may look okay on the taskbar, but the desktop icon in the 0.7 version is
almost invisible on the default Windows background colour.
If we want to ensure that the icon shows up on most desktop and toolbar
background color schemes, we need a multi-color icon and preferably one with a
dark border.  The current icon fails on both accounts.

I use moz-communicator.ico from AU's page (http://au.4mg.com/moz.htm) on my
desktop, and I quite like it.
<copy and pasted from the mozilla wishlist newsgroup>

There is actually a second icon (that i found because i like having 
choices) included in Mozilla:
create a windows shortcut
right click the icon and choose properties
go to change icon
choose browse, browse to "D:\Program Files\mozilla\mozctl.dll" and you 
will get the choice of a the head of the Mozilla mascot/lizard whatever 
its called.
if it's green [and ~it's not easy being green~] then it's (c) netscape and we 
can't use it. Yes I already asked about that critter. sorry :-(
Marking nsbeta1- bugs as future to get off the radar.
Target Milestone: --- → Future
*** Bug 87973 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
this has been seen on the desktop too, maybe Mozilla needs a more colorful icon?

In bug 87973 the suggestion was to outline the icon.
Summary: Program icon invisible in Windows Quick launch bar → Program icon invisible when background color is the same as icon color

    
    

    
  
Currently we are not changing any icons. No one likes that position but the 
problem relates to copyright and legal issues.  No new green creatures will be 
accepted. Please read the bug report before commenting. And in the case of this 
bug report there is probably no reason to comment until someone explains the 
legal position.

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 108815 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 111295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
Does the RED lizard logo (red lizard facing right) violate any of Netscape's
copyrights?

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 112204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
The problem is, on NT4, with the default background, you cannot see
the Mozilla icon !

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 137370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 145088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 147323 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 147688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 149822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 155054 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 160035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
Icons were changed recently.  I don't use the installer, but I assume the icon
on the desktop is now the red mozilla head on the blue triangle.  Can someone
confirm that this appears properly now on the NT desktop?

    
    

    
  
I can't comment for NT, but in Win98SE this is no longer a problem. The icon is
now the red lizard head and the blue triangle. I did have some problems getting
this new icon to stick, but recreating my shortcuts got around that (and I
figure it was a Windows problem).

I'm going to mark this fixed. Feel free to reopen if other Windows varieties are
still broken.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 162844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Keywords: verifyme
QA Contact: sairuh → nobody

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 189844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite

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