Make the Undocked Chrome Dev Tools Icon Unique

[Aaron Misner]

I tried searching for any sort of discussion or info on this but came up empty-handed. I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet.

Chrome Dev Tools, when undocked, appears in its own window. This window has the same Program icon as the chrome browser window itself. While not a terribly big deal, it does take a fair bit of extra time looking for the dev tools window on the taskbar. If it had its own distinct icon, it'd be easier to spot it and save on mental processing.

For power users who have multiple windows and browser windows open while developing, I'm sure this would be a much welcome change.

If anyone has any information on this, please weigh in.

I found this StackOverflow question on the subject (http://stackoverflow.com/q/32496886/3549401), 3 upvotes and no answers (at time of this writing).

[PhistucK]

You can search crbug.com for an existing issue and star it. If you cannot find one, file a new issue using the "New issue" link on the same page.

Please, do not add a "+1" or "Me too" or "Confirmed" (or similar) comment. It just wastes the time of Chrome engineers and sends unnecessary e-mails to all of the people who starred the issue.

You can reply with a link to the found or created issue and might get triaged (and fixed) faster.

Thank you.

☆PhistucK

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[Jonathan Garbee]

As far as I understand it, this wouldn't work since DevTools is still a Chrome process. So it will show up in the same stack of programs (as most OSes do now.) Changing the icon in that way would mean DevTools would need to be made its own system process. Are there any examples of programs that currently do this type of thing successfully?

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[PhistucK]

Actually, at least on Windows, the Developer Tools windows are not included in the browser window group, they already have their own separate group, so having a different icon should, in theory, not be a huge problem.

Also, I am not sure (on Windows) you must have a process per taskbar button. For example, while Chrome indeed has renderer processes, the taskbar buttons you see in the Windows taskbar are not renderer processes, but browser windows and as far as I know, Chrome does not start a different process per window (not even always per tab). Each Windows task (on the taskbar, that is) can have its own icon, I believe.

I do not know about other platforms.

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[Keith Z]

try this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32496886/how-can-i-change-icon-for-chrome-developer-tools