Bugzilla – Bug 6104
Icon for desktop shortcut to SC server (http://box:9000/) is "disabled"
Last modified: 2007-11-23 00:16:15 UTC
The icon used when you create a desktop link to the SC page appears "disabled" grey on grey. It should be the same icon as the squeezetray. This is on the box that the SC service is running. On a different box no specific icon is used (Windows Vista).
Created attachment 2394 [details] icons created left:squeezetray; right: page link
Please try again with 11/9 build, as the 11/8 build was broken.
This one is just about the graphic image used when creating a shortcut to the web page to your desktop. It is extremely bad. The one on the right in the image is the shortcut that has the bad picture. The one on the left is what is installed with the squeezetray icon. The faded grey on grey is usually used to indicate disabled, etc. This is still a problem with the 11/9 build.
Hmm... can't reproduce. Did you try a clean install? That file hasn't been changed in months (say: two years!). Can you reproduce this issue on another machine?
Maybe I'm still not explaining this correctly. If I open up a browser (on another box without SC installed) and go to the http://machine:9000 page and try and create a desktop shortcut the icon it creates is the generic page but the properities shows the grey icon. See attachment 2 [details]. This is on Windows Vista. If I open up a browser (on the box where SC IS installed) and go to the same page and create a desktop shortcut I get the grey icon in attachment 1 [details]. This is on Windows XP. In both cases the shortcut is created by right clicking on the page on the upper right section of the browser window.
Created attachment 2408 [details] Windows Vista image
Created attachment 2409 [details] Examples from 6.5 and 7.0 I see the same thing. When you create a desktop shortcut to a web page, it uses the favicon.ico icon. And yes, it doesn't look anything like you'd expect. Maybe it had something to do with the quick-and-dirty change from a white background to add transparency. You can see that there are transparent pixels not only surround the outline of the SB3, but within the image of the SB3 itself. The bigger problem may be with the color palette chosen, but I'd just be guessing. Could definitely use some work.
Thanks for confirming - at least I know I'm not seeing things. I did find it odd that Windows Vista just used a generic web page icon but displayed the specific squeezecenter icon in the properities page while Windows XP did use the specific one. I was wondering if it was because SC was installed on one box(XP) and not the other (Vista). I don't have a way to easily test that, though. Should the "Windows Vista not using the SC icon for a shortcut icon" be on a different bug, left here, or just the way that it works, etc.? Thanks
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