[wxPython-users] [wxGTK] task bar icon size

[Robin Dunn]

roee shlomo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm testing my application on Ubuntu Feisty and I have a problem with 
> the icon size in wx.TaskBarIcon.
> 
> I have an instance of wx.Icon which I use as both application icon, and 
> as the first parameter for wx.TaskBarIcon.SetIcon.
> 
> I have tried:
> 1. wx.Icon(iconPath, wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ICO) where iconPath points to 
> windows .ico file with support for 16x16, 32x32, 48x48.
> 2. wx.Icon(iconPath, wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG) where iconPath points to .png 
> file with size of 48x48.
> 
> As application icon, it works great (icon size changes to the 
> appropriate size).
> As tray icon it ALWAYS uses 48x48 (on windows it works well).
> 
> I know I can create a small 16x16 png icon just for the system tray, but 
> I saw many apps using a 48x48 png file and their task bar icon looks great.

Currently you're probably better off to just use a custom 16x16 image 
for the taskbar.  wxIcon isn't too smart on wxGTK and doesn't do any 
special size based selection for the wx.TaskbarIcon.


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