Bug 442761

Summary:	Icon in start menu and in taskbar has a square boundary of accent color
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	strangequark <random1123581321>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	4wy78uwh, christoph, frederic.parrenin, saif1988
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	21.04.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	When Windows accent color is blue When Windows accent color is purple etc

Description strangequark 2021-09-21 04:17:52 UTC

Created attachment 141754 [details]
When Windows accent color is blue

SUMMARY
The icon for Kate in the Windows taskbar has a square boundary of the accent color the user has defined in Windows. No other app I have installed has this.
See attachment.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install Kate from MS Store
2. Open Kate, when the Windows taskbar is set to icon-only mode (as it is by default)
3. The Kate icon is weird, and it has a square boundary of whatever accent color you have set in Windows (Personalization->Colors->Choose your accent color)

OBSERVED RESULT
See attachment

EXPECTED RESULT
The Kate icon should be like all the other icons of all apps, without the boundary.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 10.0.19043 Build 19043, Microsoft Windows 10 Home

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442760 for the same bug in Okular

Comment 1 strangequark 2021-09-21 04:18:21 UTC

Created attachment 141755 [details]
When Windows accent color is purple etc

Comment 2 frederic.parrenin@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr 2022-01-21 12:58:29 UTC

Same problem here with Windows 11.
The same problem also exists for Okular.

Comment 3 Jan Bidler 2022-07-12 17:28:25 UTC

*** Bug 453527 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2022-07-13 16:45:05 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/804

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2025-08-09 16:37:54 UTC

https://invent.kde.org/packaging/craft/-/merge_requests/323