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Copper Contributor

Sep 04, 2019

MSIX package App icons and logos problem

Hello all, When creating the icons and logos with Advanced Installer asset generator (and Visual Assets Generator ), we always get a too small taskbar icon with a blue background. How can we so...

Bogdan Mitrache

Iron Contributor

Sep 05, 2019

Thanks for sharing this issue, our team confirms the bug.

We will issue a fix in our next release(16.4), in the following weeks.

Regards,

Bogdan

Brass Contributor

Jan 11, 2022

Hi Bogdan, if you see this, do you recall what the issue was here? I face the same problem with my MSIX files - even after generating altform-unplated.png versions and making a resources.pri file, the border will just not go away. I wonder if there is some obscure thing that isn't well documented.

Bogdan Mitrache
Iron Contributor
Jan 11, 2022
Hi Mike,
This is the only thing I could find in Jira (sorry we moved to Gitlab sometime that year and some issue details were lost in the migration).

From our history:

The Windows 8 / 8.1 documentation regarding qualifiers for app icons:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/apps/hh965372(v=win.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN#target_size

doesn't mention the "unplated" qualifier. It only exists in the Windows 10 documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/style/app-icons-and-logos

From what see the devs had to fix some regex values to detect assets files with ".targetsize-" and "_altform-unplated" suffixes...if that helps you somehow 🙂
- MikeH
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 11, 2022
  Thanks for checking 🙂 I guess my problem is something else then, as I can see the .pri file contains these alternative forms and sizes correctly yet Windows still doesn't seem to use them. Very obscure. It seems Microsoft has given up on "plating" as none of the taskbar icons in Windows 11 seem to have such a border.

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