Closed Bug 27746 Opened 25 years ago Closed 23 years ago

need desktop icons for use with mozilla.exe

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 73712

People

(Reporter: ssu0262, Assigned: timeless)

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Icons for the following mozilla apps/supported extensions still are needed: mail editor aim (netscape aim, not aol I suppose). .html .shtml .js .xpi .http .https .gif .jpg .png .tif I don't know if we need to have all of them or not, but I've tried listing as much as I know (I'm positive I missed some). I'll let you decide on what's important/relavent or not.
Change to Netscape only since you mentioned aim. I also added some other components/windows to the list. Most of the designs are done but haven't converted to the .ico files yet. added german to the list since I am going on sabbatica 03/20-04/28 All list Y=will have new icon(s), N= no icons will be provided: Y. editor Y. aim (netscape aim, not aol I suppose). Y AddressBk Y. manage Bookmark Window Y. .html N. .shtml (use same as .html) Y. .js N. .xpi --What is this? N .http ( when this one is going to show? We never had any in the past) N .https (same as above) Y .gif N .jpg (use same icons as the .gif) N .png (use same icons as the .gif) N .tif (use same icons as the .gif)
Target Milestone: M16
.xpi it's the same thing as a .jar file, but without signiture files. It is the Netscape6's version of a SmartUpdate installer. .http We register the extension in C4.x. It shows up when the user creates (under windows) a shortcut with the command line starting with "http://".
M16 has been out for a while now, these bugs target milestones need to be updated.
*** Bug 63690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Other platforms beyond windows should have access to the icons. I'm in the process of drawing some icons for these components. Note: This bug is currently not nsonly and I am treating it as mozilla focused, if anyone intends to have an nsonly bug it should be in bugscape. Other icons that need addressing: .dtd, .properties, .xml, .svg, .rdf, ftp:, mailto:, gopher: [not currently in product, but maybe at some later date], smpt:, imap:, pop:. http and https SHOULD NOT have the same icon. The security should be clearly visible in the icon. I will draw my icons as gif's and convert to icons later. A few notes. Windows supports many resolutions for icons. We should support at least: 16x16,32x32,48x48, probably 64x64. and x16c and x256c. For now, my proposals will be 32x32x16 with transparency and no inverse [inverse isn't supported in gif and i'm not going to try to explain it through other means]. WMP and IE5 supply: 16x16x16, 32x32x16, 48x48x16, 16x16x256,32x32x256,48x48x256.
Assignee: shuang → timeless
OS: Windows NT → All
if mozilla is to be widely used (and it's high-time it is), the having iconse to differentiate (at a minimum) between browser and mail/news should be a very urgent issue - we need brand recognition on the desktop pronto. Technical issues might be more "important" from a technical standpoint, but this is much more urgent from a "political" standpoint! Give us some icons please. Having two identical icons in my quick-launch bar and desktop is just confusing (and not cool).
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Correct this bug is not nsonly, the ability to see different icons is release agnostic and should help both Netscape 6 and Mozilla users. Both will use different set of images as one is Ntescape branded and the other is a generic Mozilla design. There is an equivalent bug on the nsonly side. I am not a developer but I know that this reaches deep into platform specific territory. E.g. in Win32, The fact that to the OS the different app windows are really document windows makes things a bit more complex. Also you cannot have .gif files there (execept for Linux I suppose), since these have to be .ico's on Win32 and icl8/4 reosurces on MacOS.
Target Milestone: M16 → mozilla0.8
See also: bug 57576 Apps in the suite should use different/distinct icons bug 43647 The Mozilla icon is really boring and ugly
Not for .8, moving to .9...
Target Milestone: mozilla0.8 → mozilla0.9
It would be good if the https icon was the same as the http one but with a little padlock icon on it. I assume these would also apply to .url files. Also, the image files should not all have the same icon. IE differentiates using a different colour for each, which I suggest doing to create a quick visual representation. But we should also write GIF, PNG, JPEG or TIFF in really small text into the bottom right of the image, for people who have extensions turned off.
Component: Browser-General → XP Apps: GUI Features
Are you still shooting for 0.9 on this? If so please email drivers@mozilla.org with a status on you progress. If not please retarget against a later Milestone. Thanks.
*** Bug 76996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9 → mozilla0.9.1
unseting the target milestone until somebody gets some code in hand.
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.1 → ---
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73712 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Half of this bug is a dup of bug 73712 (icon for each window -- Mozilla specific), the other half is a dup of bug 99380 (icons for associated files -- Mozilla and Netscape, AFAIK).
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
Component: XP Apps: GUI Features → UI Design
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