1712164 - Add branding resources for MSIX packages

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Installer, task)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Microsoft's MSIX/APPX package format wants icons and logos in a bunch of specific sizes for display on the Desktop and in the Microsoft Store. This ticket tracks generating them, ready to check into the tree.

All of this stuff is relatively well documented, although I have found reading https://github.com/UWPCommunity/UWP-Visual-Asset-Generator to be pretty helpful for summarizing as well.

There are multiple axes here. The first is just "sizes that Microsoft's format wants". That appears to be, at this point

• small (71 x 71)
• medium (150 x 150)
• wide (310 x 150)
• large (310 x 310)

The second has to do with screen densities; we can provide scales from 1x to 4x.

The third has to do with "plating" and "unplating", some specifically "target sized" assets (for task bars, etc), and theme-specific icons (for showing up well with dark and light themes).

There seem to be some wrinkles around padding that the automated tools handle as well.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

For the time being, I'll take assets from https://mozilla.design/firefox/logos-usage/ and use a tool to automatically generate versions. The design team can clean things up as they see fit.

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Fun question: do we want to brand Firefox Beta differently in the Windows Store? I think we probably do; it's only for hysterical raisins that we brand Beta and Release identically on Desktop, on those reasons don't apply to the Windows store.

Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: Bug 1712164 - Add branding resources for MSIX packages. r?mhowell!

All files were generated by the "Visual Assets" panel in Visual
Studio. The file names are the Visual Studio default names; the
densities are the Visual Studio "Suggested" densities.

For MSIX, it is likely that we will brand Firefox Beta differently
than Firefox (Release). Therefore, I've included assets generated
from the Beta Fx-Browser-Beta-icon-fullColor-512.png file included
in the Beta Assets ZIP archive from
https://mozilla.design/firefox/logos-usage/.

For the other release channels, assets were generated from
content/[e-mail], which is the highest resolution (384x384)
source I can find. These PNGs look better than those from
https://mozilla.design/firefox/logos-usage/ (to me): I theorize that
this is because they have already been quantized to 8bit colour and
that this avoids colour artifacts near edges.

Comment 4

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

dkl: could we unlock this ASAP? It missed the earlier tranch, unfortunately, and is blocking landing this entire feature for Firefox 92. Sorry for the rush job!

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/888359c1dcc5
Add branding resources for MSIX packages. r=mhowell

Comment 6

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/888359c1dcc5

Comment 7

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

Backed out for Windows 2012 Shippable repack bustages (on central)

Backed out link: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/71c33f2adfff3bb7caa21bd442fffc51e1d59b12
Log link: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer?job_id=347462523&repo=mozilla-central&lineNumber=561

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/076904582648
Add branding resources for MSIX packages. r=mhowell

Comment 9

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/076904582648

Comment 10

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Clearing NI since this has landed.