Some windows applications, when they have a shortcut in the Windows Taskbar, when run will then ‘underline’ the taskbar icon to show that they are running. This seems a good practice when the application can only run a single instance of itself at once since it shows you that it is already running. If they can run multiple instance, the shortcut icon reflects this with a ‘stacked icon image’.

Other apps with taskbar shortcuts run and create an entirely second Icon, identical in image but with a ‘dot’ under them to show they are running. Legend falls into this category.

Since Legend can only run a single instance of itself as once on Windows, perhaps it would be better if it did not create a second icon, which has no additional purpose, yet unnecessarily ‘clutters’ the windows taskbar.

    SamMarrocco I do not get a second icon in the taskbar when running Legend, using Windows 10 in my case.

    But I also don’t get that with other apps. Wondering if it has anything to do with whether you set taskbar buttons to “combine” or not in taskbar properties. I set mine to “Always Combine”.

        Can you share a screenshot of that? I use a Mac so I’m primarily in the Mac app, and I switch into Windows to test it sometimes. But I’ve never seen stacked icons. Is that happening if multiple windows are open? Or just all the time?

          andrew

          The Windows 10 “Combine” options in the taskbar have been removed from what I can tell from Windows 11. It looks like it is up to the programmer to determine how icons are display for their individual applications when they are compiled.

            Jay
            Since the boards do not allow uploads, I’ll email you three example screenshots. They are:

            • Visual Studio Not Running: This show the taskbar if the cursor is hovering over my VS Icon while nothing is running (normal state)

            • Visual Studio 1 Instance Running: The taskbar if the cursor is hovering over my VS Icon while a single instance of Visual Studio is running. The small underline/dash indicates that (at least one instance) of the application is running.

            • Visual Studio 2 Instances Running: The taskbar if the cursor is hovering over my VS Icon while two instances of Visual Studio are running. Not the (very light) stacked icons evident by the ‘double’ right border. It’s supposed to look like multiple icons are stacked on top of one another.

            Some applications honor this system, some do not. This used to be a ‘settable’ option in taskbar options for all taskbar icons, but the option to disable it was removed in Windows 11. Since some icons honor the system, some don’t, so I’m assuming that this is now determined programmatically by code when the particular app is compiled.

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