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Bug 22603

Summary:	Product splash screen shows "eclipse" program item on windows task bar
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tetsuro Asahata <asahata>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2	CC:	ed.burnette, ian.leslie, jeffmcaffer, Michal.Tkacz
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	3.1 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	81463
Bug Blocks:

Description Tetsuro Asahata

2002-08-20 17:36:32 EDT

While product splash screen is shown, it also shows "eclipse" task item
in windows task bar.

Splash screen should not show any item in task bar,
or at least it should say customized product name.

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2002-09-27 15:31:19 EDT

Is that even possible?
Investigate.

Comment 2 Ed Burnette

2004-02-23 14:21:34 EST

Could it be caused simply by the use of eclipse.exe ? I.e., if I changed that 
to foobar.exe would the task bar say "Foobar"?

Comment 3 Frank Gerhardt

2004-02-23 15:47:15 EST

Then even more strange things happen. If I rename eclipse.exe to gdfsuite.exe,
then two new copies named eclipse.exe and eclipse_alt.exe are created. Why is
that so!? It's so strange that I almost couldn't belive it. Furthermore, the
when using a renamed exe file, the command line args are not passed to the
second startup. Looks like I'm opening a whole can of worms.

Comment 4 Pascal Rapicault

2004-10-29 11:07:53 EDT

Ed or Frank, could one of you verify that recompiling the exe like indicated in 
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Branding/branding-your-application.html 
fixes the problem and does not exhibit other problems?

Comment 5 Jeff McAffer

2004-10-29 11:11:14 EDT

Wow, a blast from the past.  This is likely quite different now.  Having said 
that, we are very keen for 3.1 to ensure that eclipse.exe (or some wrapper) can 
be correctly branded for your application to have the right icon (on the 
desktop for example), the right task registration info (in the task bar for 
example), etc etc.

Bumping up the priority and severity...

Comment 6 Jeff McAffer

2005-01-06 16:54:03 EST

I think this has been (is being) covered by bug 76855 and the -name argument?

Comment 7 Ed Burnette

2005-01-06 18:04:19 EST

I agree with #6.

Comment 8 Pascal Rapicault

2005-01-07 09:00:33 EST

Yes I agree, but as I haven't seen it yet I'd rather let the bug open.

Comment 9 Ed Burnette

2005-01-07 11:49:00 EST

What I mean is, with the new launcher it no longer shows "Eclipse" in the
Windows task bar. It shows whatever you specified with -name (or renamed the
native launcher to). I just recently tried this out in 3.1M4. So this request
appears to me to be fixed. For more info see: 
http://www.eclipsepowered.org/archives/2005/01/05/using-native-launcher/ .

Comment 10 DJ Houghton

2005-04-01 14:05:33 EST

Pascal to verify and close.

Comment 11 Pascal Rapicault

2005-04-01 15:41:38 EST

verified