On 8/2/12 4:23 PM, imacat wrote: > On 01.08.02 07:31pm, Jürgen Schmidt said: >> On 8/2/12 12:58 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>> On 8/2/12 12:46 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>>> On 8/2/12 12:24 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:15 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> imacat found a problem with the base application icon on windows. >>>>>> >>>>>> I can verify this issue with the latest version based on r1367911 when I >>>>>> do a clean fresh installation, no upgrade. If you run an upgrade >>>>>> installation you don't see this problem and the icon is ok. >>>>> >>>>> You have the answer to the question I asked imacat just now. >>>>> >>>>> BTW - did you notice that the Draw icon was also missing in her >>>>> screenshot? >>>> >>>> no, I haven't noticed this, I was focused on the base icon ;-) >>> >>> and I know why I haven't noticed it, I have checked it again on my >>> Windows machine and the only icon that is missing is that from Base ;-) >>> >>> I hate such problems... >> >> I am still have no real idea what going wrong and I am rebuilding >> currently the same version to ensure that it is no build problem (but I >> hope it is :-)). >> >> As I mentioned earlier when you watch the properties, you will see the >> correct icon. When you now click on change icon and double click the >> icon (which is the only available icon in sbase.exe) and apply the >> change everything is ok in the Start Menu. >> >> Even a restart of windows after the installation won't help. >> >> I am no expert but I would guess that the icon in the Start Menu is >> extracted from the exe where it seems to be ok. > > Thanks, Jürgen. I think this issue is serious in that: It drew my > attention not from the inside of the start menu, but from the recent > applications shortcuts of the start menu. See the attached picture. > Windows 7 puts the first shortcut of the most recent installed > application, at the recent application shortcuts of the start menu. It > is very large and obvious when user wants to run anything in Windows 7. > > A detaled explanation of my case: I first upgraded from 3.4.0 to > 3.4.1, and found this problem (alone with Draw). Then I removed the > previous version and did a clean install, and this problem still exists > (alone with Draw). > > I layed the icons a bit. It seems that the Base shortcut only have > problem when the icon is read from sbase.exe. The shortcut icon of > Base.lnk is fine if it is from scalc.exe, sdraw.exe or anything else. > The same goes for Draw.lnk: It only has problem when points to > sdraw.exe, but not the others (sbase.exe, smath.exe, etc.) Any other > shortcuts (even those created by hand) work fine for both sbase.exe and > sdraw.exe. > > So I suppose the problem lies in the shortcut files Base.lnk and > Draw.lnk. How do we create these two files? Shall we create them again?
thanks for sharing the info, please my other email. I don't see that we can do anything here for now. We did also an upgrade on one machine of 3.4 to 3.4.1 and icons were there. It is really a strange issue. Juergen >
