Ugly icon when pinned to windows taskbar

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 473

Steps to reproduce:
Pin (anchor) the application to windows 7 taskbar. Close the application.

Expected behavior:
See the nice icon with transparencies.

Experienced behavior:
The icon seems very ugly (no the same as when program is open), apparently the transparencies
are wrong.

Product version:
1.1

Operating system:
Windows 7, 64bit, ES

Additional Information:
Image attached to see differences.

Reported by gabriel.gross on 2014-01-31 10:00:06

<hr> * Attachment: program-open-or-closed.png<br>

[Former user]

sorry, the version I put is wrong, meant version 0.11 (Qt 4.8.5).

Reported by gabriel.gross on 2014-01-31 10:02:58

[Former user]

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-01-31 17:48:25

[Former user]

I always see the same ("ugly") icon. See attachments.

Version 0.11

Windows 7, 32bit, ES.

Reported by ajarov on 2014-02-04 12:08:17

<hr> * Attachment: open.png<br> * Attachment: closed.png<br>

[Former user]

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-02-04 18:39:47 - Status changed: Accepted - Labels added: Type-Defect, Milestone-0.12, OpSys-Windows, Priority-High

[Former user]

Issue 274 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-07-04 02:20:55

[Former user]

Issue 512 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-09-05 12:03:41

[Former user]

Issue 528 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-10-16 17:31:25

[Pol Welter]

I just found an easy fix. The .ico needs to feature multiple resolutions of the icon. Just running the existing .png through http://convertico.com/ and recompiling did the job.

Will send a PR with the new icon. EDIT: Done. See pull request #21.

[Felix Krull]

Well. I was also looking into this issue and I can confirm that adding more icon sizes fixes it. (In detail: when pinning an application, Windows switches from using the window icon to using the icon in the executable; and apparently their icon downscaling isn't that good.)