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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: JaredH on April 30, 2006, 07:25:18 pm

Title: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: JaredH on April 30, 2006, 07:25:18 pm

Why does the MC tray icon look so distorted when compared to the menu icon?

(http://www.bgracetfaith.net/misc/mcicon.jpg)

Is there anyway to sycronize the two so that the tray icon looks as good as the menu icon?

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: JaredH on May 02, 2006, 11:26:50 am

Am I the only one that notices this?

And, if so, why am I always the one with the weird PC problems?

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: Doof on May 02, 2006, 11:38:32 am

I'm still trying to figure out where you found that menu icon.

The MC icons I have all look distorted.

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: JaredH on May 02, 2006, 12:54:08 pm

Its the icon that got assigned when the shortcut was created.

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: sdgrizdan on May 02, 2006, 04:08:22 pm

I see it, and agree that they are curiously different.

To see them, go to windowed mode, and look at the taskbar.

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: Matt on May 02, 2006, 06:09:24 pm

An icon file has lots of sizes and color depths in the same icon file.

How Windows chooses which icon to use from insice an .ico is a bit of a mystery to me. 

We may be able to do more to make sure the best looking icon is always used.  What places doesn't it look good to people?

Thanks.

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: JaredH on May 02, 2006, 07:35:41 pm

To me its only in the system tray. Every other place icons are used looks fine. I thought this may because of a odd size to my taskbar, but I set it to the default size and it still looks funky.

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: Pug on May 03, 2006, 06:46:50 am

Systray and Taskbar Icon are looking the bad way, icon in startmenu is ok...

Just to report
Pug

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: Matt on May 03, 2006, 11:20:05 am

For some reason, we had two different flavors of the Media Center icon getting used.

Next build should switch everything to the better looking version.  Let us know if you still see the old one after upgrade.

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: JaredH on May 03, 2006, 11:51:56 am

Quote from: Pug on May 03, 2006, 06:46:50 am

Systray and Taskbar Icon are looking the bad way, icon in startmenu is ok...

Just to report
Pug

Didn't even notice that one until you said something.

Title: Re: MC Icon - Menu vs. Tray
Post by: sdgrizdan on May 03, 2006, 06:04:50 pm

The jagged icon is STILL showing up.

Play a video and then select 'windowed view'.

Now, look at the taskbar. There are two MC instances ("Media Center" and "Media Center Display")
The latter has the jagged icon.

I hope this helps. I could post a screenshot later if needed.

I am using 11.1.181