Icon is blurry at 110% scaling (DPI 106)

[28andrew]

I recently switched from a 1680x1050 to a 2560x1080 monitor. The EarTrumpet tray icon now looks like this:

I don't recall it looking like that? Is this an issue with my resolution?

[28andrew]

The legacy icon appears to work just fine:

[riverar]

Hey @28andrew, thanks for the heads up. We might be missing an icon size step. Navigate to Settings > General > About and click Collect troubleshooting data. Copy and paste the top portion of the log (before the ---) into this issue.

[28andrew]

version: 2.1.7.0
runtimeMinutes: 8119
gdiObjects: 79
userObjects: 44
globalGdiObjects: 3975
globalUserObjects: 3975
handleCount: 990
releaseStage: production
osVersionBuild: 18362.1.amd64fre.19h1_release.190318-1202
osArchitecture: 64 bit
processorCount: 6 core(s)
IsLightTheme: True
IsSystemLightTheme: False
IsRTL: False
IsTransparencyEnabled: True
UseAccentColor: True
AnimationsEnabled: True
IsHighContrast: False
HasIdentity: True
IsShuttingDown: False
Culture: en-US
CurrentUICulture: en-US
systemDpi: 106
taskbarDpi: 106
addons: 
region: US

[riverar]

systemDpi: 106
taskbarDpi: 106

Well that's new. Is this a custom DPI you set?

[28andrew]

Ah, that was the issue. I had a custom scale set to 110%. With the scale set to 100%, both values in the troubleshooting info for dpi are 96 and the icon looks normal.

[riverar]

@28andrew Is 110% something you prefer to use? Or was that just a mistake?

[28andrew]

It was something I liked to use but now I like the 100% scale, haha. So I guess it's not too bad of a bug. The custom scale setting in Windows even has a warning that some programs may not behave properly with a custom scale.

[lenzfliker]

@riverar it's the same with 115% only happens when changing through custom scaling tho

version: 2.1.7.0 runtimeMinutes: 201 gdiObjects: 78 userObjects: 40 globalGdiObjects: 1524 globalUserObjects: 1524 handleCount: 859 releaseStage: production osVersionBuild: 19041.1.amd64fre.vb_release.191206-1406 osArchitecture: 64 bit processorCount: 12 core(s) IsLightTheme: False IsSystemLightTheme: False IsRTL: False IsTransparencyEnabled: True UseAccentColor: False AnimationsEnabled: True IsHighContrast: False HasIdentity: True IsShuttingDown: False Culture: en-US CurrentUICulture: en-US systemDpi: 110 taskbarDpi: 110 addons: region: US

[davuxcom]

See https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet/issues/528 for more cases.

[qb20nh]

Left: EarTrumpet, right: system

version: 2.1.9.0
runtimeMinutes: 7
gdiObjects: 115
userObjects: 51
globalGdiObjects: 4077
globalUserObjects: 4077
handleCount: 676
releaseStage: production
osVersionBuild: 19041.1.amd64fre.vb_release.191206-1406
osArchitecture: 64 bit
processorCount: 12 core(s)
IsLightTheme: False
IsSystemLightTheme: False
IsRTL: False
IsTransparencyEnabled: False
UseAccentColor: False
AnimationsEnabled: True
IsHighContrast: False
HasIdentity: True
IsShuttingDown: False
Culture: ko-KR
CurrentUICulture: ko-KR
systemDpi: 106
taskbarDpi: 106
addons: 
region: KR

[silverwings15]

same issue here. left is system, right is EarTrumpet. i'm on Win11 22H2 22621.1265, 2880x1800 with 150% scaling

version: 2.2.2.0 runtimeMinutes: 3 gdiObjects: 80 userObjects: 42 globalGdiObjects: 2585 globalUserObjects: 2585 handleCount: 719 releaseStage: production osVersionBuild: 22621.1.amd64fre.ni_release.220506-1250 osArchitecture: 64 bit processorCount: 20 core(s) IsLightTheme: True IsSystemLightTheme: True IsRTL: False IsTransparencyEnabled: True UseAccentColor: False AnimationsEnabled: True IsHighContrast: False HasIdentity: True IsShuttingDown: False Culture: en-US CurrentUICulture: en-US systemDpi: 144 taskbarDpi: 144 addons: region: US

[qb20nh]

@silverwings15 in your screenshot icon is not blurry

[silverwings15]

i think i understand why now, the current ET tray icon uses the Win10 design so it looks less sharp next to the thicker Win 11 design. here it is next to the Win10 icon (ET left, system right), the difference is much less pronounced if at all

[riverar]

We indeed use the icon assets provided by the system, so our hands are a bit tied when it comes to custom DPI scaling.

I'll take a look and see if we can switch to the Segoe Fluent Icon glyph (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/style/segoe-fluent-icons-font#:~:text=e992-,Volume0,-e993). The notification area doesn't support these glyphs natively so it'll probably never look the same.