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tjackenpacken / taskbar-groups

Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups
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[Ongoing] Icon Development #19

Open Darthagnon opened 3 years ago

Darthagnon commented 3 years ago

Thread for the development of the taskbar-groups program icon (initially started in Issue #3)

Higher visibility edit of the initial icon Taskbar Groups used on release

Taskbar groups

Fluent icon concept I drew up (included in v0.1.4)

Taskbar groups icon

Darthagnon commented 3 years ago

I'm thinking I might try make a version that looks like a speech-bubble/popout window combined with a painter's palette for the 2nd attempt. Looking at it implemented fully, I'm thinking the shapes definitely need some simplification. It works at high-res big size, but doesn't for tiny taskbar icons - it all kinda blends together.

Not 100% sure I like Fluent design style, though it's easy enough to mockup. Ideal would be somewhere halfway between Aero and Fluent (NOT Metro, too simple/bland) - e.g. MacOS style icons.

Note to self: the dark grey doesn't work on the Win10 taskbar. The blue gradient with red dot does, though.

JolyonJostar commented 3 years ago

i found this application today,and i like it, i would like to develop an new icon for this porject after work

JolyonJostar commented 3 years ago

组 1@3x

OK I draw a new concept for TaskbarGroups i choose a fashion purple color(or blue if you think no need to choose a fashion color), simplify from the current icon, cancel all the shadow which might looks confusing in small size and highlight the pink circle, because i think the circle connection between taskbar and application

use it if you like it, or tell me what you want about the icon

tjackenpacken commented 3 years ago

OK I draw a new concept for TaskbarGroups i choose a fashion purple color(or blue if you think no need to choose a fashion color), simplify from the current icon, cancel all the shadow which might looks confusing in small size and highlight the pink circle, because i think the circle connection between taskbar and application

use it if you like it, or tell me what you want about the icon

This is great, I love the simplification and the color scheme gets ones attention without beeing to intrusive. Gonna try it out and see how it look in action!

Darthagnon commented 3 years ago

I did another edit, combining both mine and JolyonJostar's designs:

Taskbar groups icon_v6a

Here's the PNGs and generated ICOs Taskbar groups icon_v6.zip

Darthagnon commented 3 years ago

@tjackenpacken How do I change the icon in the code? I cloned the repo, replaced the purple Icon.ico with my colourful one, but the compiled EXE still has the purple one (even though there are no other ICOs or PNGs as far as I can see).

I could always use Resource Hacker, but I was just wondering what the "proper" way to do it would be. EDIT: I tried Resource Hacker, but the purple icon doesn't show up in it (it does show up on my taskbar, though; not a caching issue, as I haven't used the latest code (with the new icon) before on my PC.