Possibly reconsider use of Windows logo?

[Splitwirez]

I'm not sure if you're aware, but Microsoft has been known to take legal action if necessary, to ensure others do not misuse the Windows logo. Apparently their definition of "misuse" did not spare Classic Shell, which once used a logo reminiscent of the Windows XP logo, up until Microsoft got involved and the logo was changed to something which, although it didn't infringe on Microsoft's branding anymore, did bear an amusing resemblance to the logo used by the Shell gas stations at the time.

The same applies to the "Windows XP Blue" start button background, albeit I'm not certain if Microsoft is as aggressively protective of their non-branded images, so this may be a lesser issue. (I'll have you a PR fairly soon to replace that start button background with a legally safer XAML recreation...had some old relevant stuff lying around from a long-scrapped project of mine, figured I may as well put it to good use here)

As such, I would encourage you to devise a new, less...'derivative' icon for RetroBar, and to use that on the Start buttons instead of the Windows logo (as well as for the executable's own icon, obviously). It is possible to craft a logo that isn't a blatant rip-off of the Windows logo, yet is still flexible enough to be tweaked to look at home with each skin.

Should you decide to do this, it might also be a good opportunity to drop the hard requirement for the start button icon to be a raster image while you're at it - for example, perhaps I'm just weird, but...if I were to make a skin for RetroBar, I'd much rather have the icon on the start button be a XAML vector illustration than a fixed-resolution PNG image.

Great work so far btw...kind of makes me wish I still used Windows as my day-to-day OS of choice.

[dremin]

RetroBar's goal is to appear as authentic as possible, and using a different logo on the start button would be contrary to that goal--I hope it is not considered misuse. However, I do agree that the application itself should use a different icon.

[Splitwirez]

Fair enough. Not the call I'd have made, but I get where you're coming from. I also hope Microsoft won't consider it misuse...in spite of the precedent they've set thus far.

If I manage to come up with a potential icon for RetroBar itself, I'll be sure to let you know.

[JeremyLyokoPPG2020]

This XP Luna with Classic icons?

[FrankyMc]

I think the best solution would be to just make the task button logo skinnable. just the logo that is, not the whole button.