The DO icon in the Windows taskbar is yellow by default. But when I open a picture in the image viewer or are copying files the icon of my main lister turns blue. When I open two or three listers all icons turn blue instead one staying yellow.
Is there a way to prevent this from happening. My eyes are drawn to the yellow icon to restore the main lister when I'm working in another program. With this blue icon(s) I click most of the time on the wrong one.
I'd rather see that my main lister always keeps the same yellow icon and new listers and file operation windows get a blue one.
I have 7+ Taskbar Tweaker installed and set the option not to combine grouped icons. This means I have all the icons next to each other. This makes it much easier to select another window from the same program but with this changing colors not so.
But without this program enabled you can see the same color of the icons (only smaller) in the taskbar preview when you hover over the icon.
I can set both the source and dual lister color to yellow but than all icons turn yellow and I still cannot distinguish between the main lister and other windows.
In any case, the main lister stays yellow instead of turning blue (for example when I open the image viewer) so it's a bit of an improvement. Especially since the viewer has its own icon.
My icon color settings Source=yellow Dual lister: Blue
My lister is in dual display (horizontal) but all in one window. The icon is yellow.
When I open the standalone viewer, the preferences window or copy/move files (to name some) the icon turns blue.
When I open more lister windows, all icons turn blue. Is this because of the Dual lister icon color setting? In that case it makes sense.
I still don't understand why the color of the icon has to change colors when I'm doing the actions described. I find it confusing.
That sounds like your 7+ Taskbar Tweaker is misbehaving, unless you have assigned Blue to the Dest and Off states as well.
If it happens with that removed and just the standard Windows taskbar set to non-grouped mode (which doesn't require any 3rd party tools), please post a screenshot showing the whole desktop including the Opus windows, the taskbar, and the Preferences page with the icon colors. Maybe that will reveal something which I haven't thought of or have misunderstood so far.
Windows dows not provide a non-grouped mode without showing labels when a program is open, so I use a third party tool. Also, without the tool icons are still stacked when having more windows of the same program open. With the tool the icons are displayed side by side.
The tool has nothing to do with the problem.
It all comes down to the fact that the color of the icon is incorrect with the default settings of the Windows taksbar.
When the default setting 'always hide labels' is chosen the color of the icon is wrong when in dual display mode. But only wrong when no other DO windows are open. When other windows are open the color turns to correct blue(because of dual lister display).
When I switch to single mode and open other DO windows the icon stays yellow as it should because of single mode.
The icon color is displayed correct when showing labels in the taskbar.
All details and screenshots in attached zip file (docx and pdf). DO.zip (671 KB)
In every one of your screenshots, the lister is in dual display mode, so the icon for the lister is blue (since that's what the dual display icon is set to be, as shown in the Preferences screenshot at the end).
The viewer window has its own icon, which it uses all all the screenshots where it's visible.
The progress dialog has its own icon (or rather uses the main program icon), and does so in all the screenshots.
Neither viewer nor progress dialog affect the lister window's icon; only their own windows.
When taskbar grouping is turned on, the main program icon is used. (You can change the icon Windows uses when grouping by pinning the program to the taskbar and then editing the shortcut that creates. Only useful if you are grouping though, so probably not relevant here.)
I don't see anything that is wrong here, and the lister icon definitely is not changing when the image viewer is open, at least from the screenshots in the PDF.
Not in every screenshot the icon is blue. I showed examples where the icon is yellow where it should be blue (because I'm using dual display). Apparently I'm having trouble with the yellow main program icon when taskbar grouping is on. Which is definitely relevant because it's on by default in Windows and it's a setting I like. I don't want to see labels in the taskbar. If you know how not to combine icons and not showing labels at the same time, please let me know.
Why can the icon be blue when showing labels and not when icons are combined? Why am I stuck with the main icon? When I hover the main program icon I see a preview with a blue colored icon. So DO is aware of the kind of lister is open. The icon also can change color when other DO windows open so why can it be blue in the first place? If you can make it so that the color of the main icon reflects the display mode of DO when taskbar icons are combined, the whole problem is solved.
Changing the icon manually does not work. The main program icon stays unchanged. Even if I could change this icon it would not respond to changes in DO. For example when I'm switching between single and dual mode.