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Bug 579 - Fiji icon not recognized by Windows XP or Windows 7
Fiji icon not recognized by Windows XP or Windows 7
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Fiji
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other
unspecified
PC Windows
: P5 normal
Assigned To: ImageJ Bugs Mailing List
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-03-22 18:12 CDT by Andrea Stout
Modified: 2013-03-22 23:44 CDT
1 user (show)

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Description Andrea Stout 2013-03-22 18:12:58 CDT
I've re-installed the latest version of Fiji on several Windows computers in my facility.  On all of them the Fiji icon is not used for the .exe file; rather, it's the generic Windows .exe icon that shows up.  This has been a problem since Nov. 2012; I thought enough people would complain and you would fix it but I guess not.

The Fiji icon images in the "images" folder as .png files, but Windows cannot recognize them as icons.

Obviously it's just a cosmetic issue, but annoying nonetheless.  Thanks!

Andrea
Comment 1 Andrea Stout 2013-03-22 18:15:09 CDT
Sorry -- should have edited before posting.  Second paragraph should read "There are Fiji icon images stored in the "images" folder as .png files"...
Comment 2 Johannes Schindelin 2013-03-22 21:12:00 CDT
This is actually not a bug, but intentional. Too many people thought that Fiji is something different from ImageJ when it is not.

In the intermediate future, I plan to attach the ImageJ2 logo as icon by default.
Comment 3 Andrea Stout 2013-03-22 21:28:09 CDT
Ok -- thanks for explaining. It makes the Fiji shortcut harder for people to see on the desktop, though, so anything you do will be an improvement :)
Comment 4 Johannes Schindelin 2013-03-22 23:44:05 CDT
There are two possible resolutions:

1) use the updater to install fiji-win32.exe (or fiji-win64.exe). I originally wanted to deprecate those launchers, but it seems that they are too popular, so I will most likely keep the Fiji launchers around for the foreseeable future.

2) copy ImageJ-win32.exe to another file, say, debug.exe, and then call 'debug.exe --set-icon ImageJ-win32.exe fiji.ico'

I will most likely make the maintenance of the Fiji launchers easier by providing very, very simple launchers that simply hand off to ImageJ but can have their own icon. But that side project will have to wait a little bit, I fear...