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> stand out as much and I find myself searching more to find it. But that's
> most likely just a learned behavior I need to retrain myself on.
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> Subject: RE: [Support-t-2526] New icons, ugh
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> From: Jim Cook
> | As much as I fear change, I have become accustomed to the new icons
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> | quickly and do like them now. The first couple weeks, I kept clicking
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> | wrong one to start / switch back to, but now I am retrained.
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> My TCC sessions are stand-alone, started and resumed with hotkey
> (or with alt-tab), so icon recognition is not an issue, but IMHO the
> new TCC icon is too much like CMD.EXE's icon, not representing TCC's
> superior quality well. The letters in the green ball can be read on
> the desktop icon, but not in the taskbar etc. icons.
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> Steve
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> The old icons are ghastly in Windows 7. You're free to extract the
> icons from the old exe's and use them in shortcuts, but I will not
> be including them in new versions of TCMD or TCC.
The old icons are ghastly in Windows 7.
What was the problem in Windows 7? I use that as well and had no issue with them there.
One gripe, though: I have the icons of TC and TCx64 on my desktop, and they are the same, while the icon of TCC LE has a slightly redder circle. Couldn't you change the color of the circles to something individual for each program (e.g. teal for x64)?.
They didn't scale to the larger (>32x32) sizes.
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> One gripe, though: I have the icons of TC and TCx64 on my desktop,
> and they are the same, while the icon of TCC LE has a slightly
> redder circle. Couldn't you change the color of the circles to
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> I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of Take Command users are
> going to have both the 32 and 64-bit versions installed.
Where would you need such icons though? Isn't the new (bigger) task bar icons 32x32 by default?
One place would maybe be "extra large icons view" in Explorer, but that is hardly a normal use case for TCMD.
There's a lot more impaired vision users out there than you think!
Also, the larger icons are used in the Windows installer & uninstaller control panel), in the About box, on the trial dialog, in the help, and on the new web site. (And in a few zillion third-party apps that want to display the larger icons.)
> Well, as a request, you might consider doing updated icons that are
> more similar to the old icons but are more scale-friendly and
> provide them as secondary icons if you don't like them as primary
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I don't like the new icons. I suppose they are more represnetative of the application, but, the old ones were cleaner, instantly recognizable. Please at least keep the old ones as secondary icons.
I had been using a "cmd-style" custom icon for 4NT/TCC for years (in my version, the "prompt" is "J:\" instead of "C:\"), which scaled very nicely from "itty-bitty" to "holy cow that's a big icon".The old icons are ghastly in Windows 7. You're free to extract the iconsfrom the old exe's and use them in shortcuts, but I will not be including them in new versions of TCMD or TCC.