microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Icon of console application doesn't get used
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Description
### Windows Terminal version
1.15.2875.0
### Windows build number
10.0.22621.819
### Other Software
FAR Manager or any console app with an embedded icon
### Steps to reproduce
Launch a console application that has an embedded icon in its executable, such as FAR Manager. The Windows update that causes every console application to launch in Windows Terminal (instead of the old console app) must be installed.
### Expected Behavior
The embedded icon in the executable should be used as the tab icon inside Windows Terminal.
The embedded icon in the executable should be used as the taskbar icon.
### Actual Behavior
The tab icon remains the default generic icon (which looks like `C:\` on a white background).
The taskbar icon remains the default generic icon (which looks like `>_` on a black background).
This makes it difficult to distinguish between different console applications.
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue by launching FAR Manager or another console application with an embedded icon under Windows Terminal. Trace how the terminal selects icons for tabs and the taskbar, then verify that the executable's embedded icon is used in both places instead of the generic icons.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100