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Small taskbar still missing. It makes no sense having such a large taskbar (in terms of height).

DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
Taskbar program icon overlay icons (such as red/green/yellow status indicators for Skype and other IM programs, or the New Mail symbol for Outlook) are only visible in Large Taskbar mode - in Small Icons mode the overlays are entirely hidden. Those overlays do convey useful information, it's a shame MS couldn't find a way to make them work in Small Icons mode. --- Personally I can't stand Large Icon mode in Windows 10 because in Windows 10 it takes the 32x32 icons then downscales them to 24x24, even if there's a 24x24 icon available (whereas Windows 7 and 8 always used the 32x32 icons). I will agree that 24x24 sized icons seem to visually fit better in the Taskbar but the crazy part is that Windows 10 always downscales the 32x32 icons which makes them look slightly blurry: it never uses 24x24 icons if they're available, which lead to Google Chrome's icon designers having to compromise the Chrome logo icon so it would look better when downscaled: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=526622#c16 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=526622... (see comment 16 and 26)
- zamadatix 3y ago
  It'd be nice if it'd use the best resolution available but the Chrome icon needed to be fixed regardless. Windows doesn't guarantee a quantized DPI so the icon is always going to need to scale.
Stratoscope 3y ago
Indeed. I have been using Explorer Patcher only for the single reason that I don't need or want a big tall taskbar. I was fine with my "small icon" taskbar from Windows 10. And then some whoever said "We need a brand new taskbar because our code is too complicated and it's hard to maintain! Those people who preferred the smaller taskbar? It's their loss. We can't afford the development time to support that legacy feature in our complete rewrite!"

Taskbar program icon overlay icons (such as red/green/yellow status indicators for Skype and other IM programs, or the New Mail symbol for Outlook) are only visible in Large Taskbar mode - in Small Icons mode the overlays are entirely hidden. Those overlays do convey useful information, it's a shame MS couldn't find a way to make them work in Small Icons mode. --- Personally I can't stand Large Icon mode in Windows 10 because in Windows 10 it takes the 32x32 icons then downscales them to 24x24, even if there's a 24x24 icon available (whereas Windows 7 and 8 always used the 32x32 icons). I will agree that 24x24 sized icons seem to visually fit better in the Taskbar but the crazy part is that Windows 10 always downscales the 32x32 icons which makes them look slightly blurry: it never uses 24x24 icons if they're available, which lead to Google Chrome's icon designers having to compromise the Chrome logo icon so it would look better when downscaled: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=526622#c16 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=526622... (see comment 16 and 26)

zamadatix 3y ago
It'd be nice if it'd use the best resolution available but the Chrome icon needed to be fixed regardless. Windows doesn't guarantee a quantized DPI so the icon is always going to need to scale.

Stratoscope 3y ago

Indeed. I have been using Explorer Patcher only for the single reason that I don't need or want a big tall taskbar. I was fine with my "small icon" taskbar from Windows 10. And then some whoever said "We need a brand new taskbar because our code is too complicated and it's hard to maintain! Those people who preferred the smaller taskbar? It's their loss. We can't afford the development time to support that legacy feature in our complete rewrite!"