System tray icon not proper resolution

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#1487 System tray icon not proper resolution

Milestone: KeePass_2.x

Status: closed

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2017-03-22

Created: 2016-03-01

Creator: Justin

Private: No

On systems with high-DPI screens and automatic display scaling (at least in Windows 10), the KeePass system tray icon is blurry compared to other icons that have native high resolution icons. I included an example in the attachment.

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Argodon - 2016-03-01

maybe because of this:
Changes from 2.30 to 2.31
New Features: Refined application icons (thanks to Victor Andreyenkov).
Improvements / Changes:
Improved icon recoloring.

new / old

Last edit: Argodon 2016-03-01

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Argodon - 2016-03-01

upd:
I have not correctly displayed in the folder list
KeePass v.2.31

Last edit: Argodon 2016-03-01

folder list2.png

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Justin - 2016-03-02

I should note that I filed this bug using 2.31.

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Dominik Reichl - 2016-03-04

status: open --> closed
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Dominik Reichl - 2016-03-04

Thanks a lot for reporting these issues! I've fixed them now.

Here's the latest development snapshot for testing:
http://keepass.info/filepool/KeePass_160304.zip

Best regards,
Dominik

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- Justin - 2016-03-04
  
  Confirmed system tray issue resolved! It's beautiful now.
  -Justin
  
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Argodon - 2016-03-04

I also confirm, okay now.
thx Dominik

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Thomas Henlich - 2016-05-17

I'm still getting this bug, with all versions after 2.30 (Windows 7, 120 dpi)

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Dominik Reichl - 2016-05-17

I can reproduce this on Windows 7. On Windows 8 and higher, it works as expected.

I'll experiment a bit, but I doubt there's a reasonable solution that works on all Windows systems at once.

Best regards,
Dominik

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Thomas Henlich - 2016-05-17

Maybe this page (second answer) has some useful information?

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Dominik Reichl - 2016-05-17

Nope; KeePass already does resize the icon based on SystemInformation.SmallIconSize and declares DPI awareness.

Although I didn't debug it in detail, my guess is that the culprit is the way how Windows draws icons in a specific size (already did many experiments with this when getting it right for Windows 8 and higher). This has been fixed in Windows 8; for 7 and older we'd need a workaround. The most simple workaround would be to change the order of candidate images, but then the icons would look ugly on Windows 8 and higher, so this is not a solution. A workaround that specifically selects different icons on Windows 7 and earlier probably would be the way to go.

Best regards,
Dominik

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Thomas Henlich - 2016-08-19

I would like to upvote this issue. Windows 7 is still a supported OS with many users and will be for some time.

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Dominik Reichl - 2017-03-15

I was able to develop a workaround for Windows 7 now.

Here's the latest development snapshot for testing:
http://keepass.info/filepool/KeePass_170315.zip

Thanks and best regards,
Dominik

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Thomas Henlich - 2017-03-22

Resolution confirmed (Windows 7, 120 dpi).

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