On Windows, icons / images are rendering as squares / rectangles about mailspring HOT 11 CLOSED

Hey @ashleyseric — thanks for reporting this. Can you try opening the app's preferences (Menu > Preferences) and see if the tab icons at the top of the preferences window are also squares?

I don't think I've ever seen this before, but all those icons are actually rendered using a fairly obscure HTML + CSS trick - the squares have a background color (that dark gray) and the image is used as a -webkit-mask-image. That allows theme developers to change the icon colors by changing the background color, which is a lot easier than re-creating the artwork. It seems like the image masking isn't working at all for you though.

I'll do a bit of digging and see if anyone has reported this issue in Chromium also. Is there anything particularly unique about your Windows setup? Does it happen on one external display for example? (Just random idea...)

I'm gonna leave this open and hopefully we can collect a few more reports of this happening.

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Ah ok, that's interesting. I don't seem to have any issues rendering webkit-mask-image in chrome on the same pc. Changing theme doesn't seem to help (not that I would expect it to if it's only changing the background color anyway). And yeah the preference tab icons are rendering without any issues. I assume they're not being rendered using the same technique.

I'm running a single 43" 4k display with 100% scaling for what it's worth (I've tried other scaling settings to no avail). Aside from that, I can't think of anything unusual about my setup. I'll give it a try on my MacBook Pro with boot camp when I get a chance, if you think of any debugging tests I can do on my end let me know, I'm happy to help out. I had a good look through the Nylas repo issues but didn't manage to find anyone reporting anything like this.

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FYI, on my Windows 7 it was fine. So maybe it is only Windows 10 or because of some specific thing

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I'm having the exact same issue! (Also on windows 10).
Anyone know how to fix it yet?

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Same here, for me it happens on both Windows 7 and 10. For what it's worth it's only happening on a certain computer, an old one with Intel GMA 4500 igfx

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Hey folks—this /should/ be fixed now that we've moved to Electron 1.8. I'm gonna mark it as resolved but leave it open and see if we can collect any more reports in the next week or two.

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Hey folks! I think that this may actually be related to #1366, which was just fixed on master. If the system path to Mailspring contained a weird character like ? or #, the app generated invalid file// urls for it's images.

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Hey folks, thanks for reporting this. Happy to say this has been resolved in 1.7.6 which shipped this afternoon. 🚀 The app should auto-update, but if it doesn't you can also grab the new release from GitHub's Releases tab or from https://getmailspring.com/download. Thanks for your patience and help tracking this down, enjoy the update!

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This bug seems to have resurfaced -- I'm just trying Mailspring for the first time and am seeing this.

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