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x/website: high-res favicon for system integration #57899

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@Deleplace

What did you do?

The use case is "Open the online playground as if it was a standalone app".

In Google Chrome (desktop), there is a very nice feature "Create Shortcut". Its creates an shortcut for the OS window manager, that opens the website in its own window, as if it were an app.

  • Open Google Chrome
  • Navigate to https://go.dev/play/
  • Top Right (kebab button) > More Tools > Create Shortcut...
  • Check the box "Open as window"
  • Click Create

It is very well integrated with OSX. Not so much with Ubuntu. YMMV.

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What did you expect to see?

A new Gopher icon shows up in my dock (I'm on OSX)

What did you see instead?

A new Gopher icon shows up in my dock, but it is blurry.

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In my screenshot,

  • the 4 icons on the left are actual desktop apps
  • the 3 icons on the right are shortcuts to the webapps Google Meet, Youtube and Youtube Music, which have high-res favicon
  • I think the Gopher icon is https://go.dev/favicon.ico , which is not high-res.

I suggest we fix this with either a high-res raster favicon, or a vector favicon.

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