[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47527] Octave pinned on Windows 7 taskbar, icon appearance changes

[Hartmut]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #47527 (project octave):

I have tried several ways to pin a "Octave launcher" somehow to the Windows 7
taskbar. And I found that NONE of the ways that came to my mind worked:

* When you drag-and-drop the automatically generated Octave links (like
"Octave 4.0.3 (GUI)" from the Desktop (or from the Windows start menu folder)
to the taskbar, then it will attach there. But it will show the WRONG ICON. I
think it is the icon of the vbs interpreter.

* When you change the link target of those automatically generated Octave
links from "...\octave.vbs --force gui" to "wscript.exe ...\octave.vbs --force
gui" then it will still attach there and it will then show the correct Octave
icon. But once you start Octave via this icon, a SECOND Octave ICON will
appear in the taskbar. (This is the proposed workaround from commment #5.)

* When you try to attach the octave.bat file to the start menu, it just WON'T
ATTACH.

* When you create a link to the vbs-file and attach this link to the taskbar,
it will appear there with a wrong icon. (This is basically the same as the
first method.) And it does not help to manually define the correct Octave
icon-file for the link-file. The taskbar entry will nevertheless show the
wrong icon after attaching it there.

* If you create a link file to .../bin/octave-gui.exe, and manually define the
Octave icon-file as icon for this, then this link file can be properly
attached to the taskbar. And it will show the correct Octave icon. And it will
stay there once you press it (and not generate a second Octave icon in the
taskbar.) But in this case the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES are NOT PROPERLY SET for
the Octave binaries. This is what happend to me in bug #48484.

(This was tested with the official Windows binary installer of Octave 4.0.3.)

Since attaching some kind of "software launch button" to the Windows taskbar
is something that many people (at least me) consider "normal" for a Windows
software, I would very much to have this possibility also with Octave.

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