Details
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Type:
Task
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Status: Merged Needs Testing (View Workflow)
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Labels:None
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Story Points:1
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Epic Link:
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Sprint:Spring 1, Spring 2, Spring 3, Summer 2026
Description
Situation: The IGB desktop icon on MacOS 26 appears with a grey border.
Task: Investigate why this grey border is appearing and if we can fix it.
Link to Apple App Icons documentation: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/app-icons
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Activity
New installers are built and ready for re-testing.
attn:
Next step:
- Let's push the branch to the main repository for safekeeping
- Revisit later when closer to making a new release
To-do:
- Push branch IGBF-4390 to lorainelab team repo
PR is merged. Installers built and deployed to bioviz.org early access section. Ready for final testing.
New icon mostly looks good on Apple.
- Installer icon: new icon, formatted correctly
- Dock icon: new icon, formatted correctly
- Desktop alias: new icon, the new icon appears within squircle jail
- Finder icon: old icon
What is odd to me is that the igb_128.icns file in the repository is the new updated one, but when I look at the app.icns file in the Resources folder of IGB once installed, it has a mix of the old and new images. The mix of images looks like they are being pulled from the various igb images from the branding folder. The install4j configuration says it is supposed to use the igb_128.icns, but I don't think it is working that way.
Paige created multiple png images, I can try adding them to IGB and see if the installer picks them up.
UPDATE:
I replaced all of the png files in the IGB > distribution > branding folder with the new versions. When I built the installer the app.icns within the Resources folder had the updated images and the Finder icon was the new image. The desktop alias was still stuck in squircle jail, however.
I can push these changes, but visually the only difference was the very small Finder icon.
Apple has mandated that app icons must fit their "squircle" shape guidelines as of the latest MacOS update. I've used Apple's free app Squircle: Resize App Icons to convert our logo to the required squircle format.
I have tested the look of this new logo locally. To do this, I followed instructions I found online which said to right-click the IGB app in Finder, select "Get Info," and drag the new squircle icon file onto the small app icon in the top-left corner of the Info window. See attached for the results.