Closed Bug 159407 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Please give back old "Quick Launch" Icon

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: QuickLaunch (AKA turbo mode), defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
QuickLaunch (AKA turbo mode)
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
trivial

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: ajaygautam, Assigned: law)

References

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020724
BuildID:    2002072408

Hello,

I would like to have the old blue lizard type icon back for the "Quick Launch"
icon in task bar.

Yesterday I updated my nightly build and was horrified at the new icon, it just
plain sucks.

However, the new window icon is very impressive.

Is there a way I could set the task bar icon back to the old blue lizard type one ?

Thanks

Ajay Gautam
I vote WONTFIX.
I don't think you appreciate the efforts of all the people involved in finally
giving mozilla a decent icon suit :)

If you don't like the icons, take a look under
<mozilla.org\Mozilla\chrome\icons\default\> in your mozilla installation.. All
the icons are there.

I don't run quicklaunch myself, but I suspect that the QuickLaunch icon is the
same as the executable icon.. this means that in order to change it, you would
have to use Resource Hacker or a similar program to modify the executable.
First of all, let me clarify that I am in awe of all you guys. Mozilla is such
an excellent browser, I don't have words to describe my feelings.... Its my
browser of choice on all windows and linux :) Mozilla is what a browser should be.

Back to the issue: Well, my comment was just a personal opinion. It may be the
case that a lot of people decided to keep that icon.

What I want to have is a way to customize that icon, and to know if there is a
way to do so.

I looked in the specified folder, could not find the icon for quick launch. And
yes, the icon for quick launch is the same as the icon for "mozilla.exe".

I looked at the resource hacker website, seems interesting. The only problem is
that I update my mozilla installation every 2 weeks or so. This would be an
overhead. Any other way ?

> I don't run quicklaunch myself
Well, if you are on windows, and keep closing / openeing mozilla, quick launch
makes a really big performace difference :)

Thanks

Ajay


*** Bug 159755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020727

At 1024x768 32-bit color, the Turbo icon looks awful in my system tray.  The
icon itself looks fine, it just doesn't scale down very well.  It mostly looks
like a little pinkish blob.  

Also, Mozilla itself, at least the web-browser part, has the Netscape Navigator
icon in the upper left corner.  That's main-window.ico.  

I, too, certainly don't plan to modify the exe every time I upgrade.  Is it
possible for Mozilla to pick up its other icons from chrome?  

As a possible alternative, how about something that looks more like the
throbber, an "M."

"What I want to have is a way to customize that icon, and to know if there is a
way to do so."

Are you requesting tech support or suggesting changes to Moz?  Bugzilla is the
wrong place for tech support.  If that's what it is, let us close the bug and
look here for tech support:
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/support.html


I hope everyone's efforts, including developers and reporters, are treated with
the respect they deserve.  But I don't think it's required for a bug report.
I call it a bug because the Turbo icon doesn't look right.  No one is knocking
the capabilities, artistic or otherwise, of the Mozilla team.  

In this case, the new icon does not scale down very well.
The Mozilla tray icon, and the Mozilla default icon is ugly.
A red dinosaur icon would give an accurate impression of the might beast that
Mozilla is.
I am sorry if my comments / this bug hurt anyone's feeling.

I am completely aware of the capabilities of the mozilla team. And am in awe of
the fine product they have developed.

My only aim is to increase the usefulness / looks / features etc of mozilla,
thereby helping in adoption of the browser. Mozilla is the *only* project to
which I submit bug reports. Mozilla is one of the real true gems of open-source.

That said, getting back to the bug: I was proposing more of a change than a tech
support thing.

Thanks

Ajay
*** Bug 160693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
-> quicklaunch
Assignee: mpt → law
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: User Interface Design → QuickLaunch (AKA turbo mode)
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: zach → gbush
I am confused. I don't use quick launch. It is just the logo next to the start
button (see attachment 93709 [details]) in my case which was duped on this. But I guess it
is the same logo. In any case it is not recognizable.

pi
URL: http://-NA-
I do not think that this is a real problem. It is really not so easy to
recognize MOZILLA, but the icon can be differed from all other Icons I have on
my task-bar.

I am satisfied with all those new icons.
Rainer, yes, you see it is different, but why keep a situation which is much
worse than the previous one (which was really OK). Remember the impression such
a thing makes on a new user. He might think that it is a hint on the quality of
the program.

pi
We don't necessarily need to bring back the old icon for Quick Launch
(personally, I never cared for it much), but I do think there need to be some
changes to the new one.  The icon does not scale well at all, and even at 24-bit
color depths, the icon is mostly blurry and overall very drab.  It does not
scale well, so the blue triangle in the upper left corner becomes a grey blob,
and our beloved red mozilla becomes a blurred head.  If we can sharpen the icon,
or provide a specific Quick Launch icon, it would help the situation immensely.

I can provide alternative icons, however, I don't know if it would help the
situation at all; is it not true that the Quick Launch icon is always the main
program icon?  If so, there would need to be a patch to have Quick Launch look
for a specific, small icon, and not scale down the 32x32 icon.  

I don't even think an alternative icon is really necessary either.  The new
icons in Mozilla are a subset of grayrest's full icon pack.  In that pack, there
is an icon called "fullpack.ico", and it contains a 16x16 and 32x32 version of
the new main logo.  The 16x16 version is the size of the Quick Launch icon (it's
the same icon, really), but it looks infinitely clearer, more colorful, and
overall better than the current icon.  Does anyone know if this is a result of
Windows dithering icons in the system tray, or if this is a problem with the
icon in Mozilla?
> Does anyone know if this is a result of
> Windows dithering icons in the system tray,
> or if this is a problem with the
> icon in Mozilla?

Well, other icons do look very well in the system tray. I would guess this is a
mozilla problem

Ajay
This has become a bit too much of a metabug which, in this case, doesn't help.
The original report wanted a return to using the old blue gecko-y seamonkey
icon. I think this is very unlikely, considering how little it appears to relate
to Mozilla.

File separate bugs for each of the issues / suggestions discussed here, if you
want (assuming they haven't already been filed). This one should be WONTFIXed.

-> WONTFIX
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Vidar, or someone else who worked on the new Windows icons: what bug was the
work on that icon set done in? Where can I find more info on it? Were 128x128
pixel icons created?

Nothing obvious seems to be linked from bug 29303.
v
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
nnooiissee; check out bug 73712. It contains lots of different icons and links 
to websites presenting icons. IIRC, Giovannis icons was used.
*** Bug 166708 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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