Customize the Start Menu tiles for Windows 10

[bsclifton]

Did you search for similar issues before submitting this one?
yes

Describe the issue you encountered:
The background for the tile is blue and the icon is just the one used by the executable

Expected behavior:
We'd have a proper background color and a beautiful image

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?):
  Windows 10 (although, Windows 8.1 should be affected too)
• Brave Version:
  All versions
• Steps to reproduce:
  1. Install on Windows
  2. Search for program (Start -> type brave)
  3. Right click the app and pick "Pin to Start"
  4. Notice the icon is bland
• Screenshot if needed:
  
• Any related issues:
  Win 10 needs branding for Apps & Features #194

[bsclifton]

There's a guide on MSDN which explains the manifest format (simply a file that goes into where program is installed). Within a few minutes, I was able to customize this pretty nicely 😄

@bradleyrichter - What do you think about this? There are some restrictions, but we can make this look good 😄 We would need nice clean images in 70x70 and 150x150 (I just scaled the braveAbout.png myself using gimp as a proof of concept). For the background color, I went with the beautiful Brave orange (which is #FF5000), but we can set this to whatever we like. Text can be either white or black.

[bradleyrichter]

Good idea. If handy, can you post a screen shot showing Firefox and/or other browser example? (A good example if one exists. )

[bsclifton]

Looks like only Chrome takes advantage of this. I other apps on my PC and the MS Office apps had custom tile colors... but the rest were plain (like iTunes):

[bradleyrichter]

I think the best thing would be to use a dark grey BG and the lion icon at about 50% of the height. Larger than the normal default icon size (like FX) but smaller than Chrome.

On Jul 2, 2016, at 10:51 AM, Brian Clifton [email protected] wrote:

Looks like only Chrome takes advantage of this. I other apps on my PC and the MS Office apps had custom tile colors... but the rest were plain (like iTunes):
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4733304/16541793/df50270c-4042-11e6-95d8-832d566b4574.png
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[bsclifton]

Here we go- good call on the BG colors 👍

[bbondy]

Fantastic. I'd prefer maybe a size in between the first and the last. @bradleyrichter ?