Sadly, yes the old bubble icon is back. It’s really the ongoing saga of the tray icon and not finding the best solution to handle this need. Here are the issues at this time:
I was having 64-bit computers just making Spark crash because I was the old JDIC.
I made the switch to using JNIWrapper, and this is where the icon switch to the flame happened because JDIC does not support ICO.
Lots of users were having the icon not show up at all because of some limitations.
I decided to make Spark dependent upon JDK 1.6 with built-in JDIC support. The only issue though is that JDIC does not support ICO and the flame we tried to use looks TERRIBLE when displayed in the system tray. So I made the move back.
Using the .exe installer and our clients get the update notification via the Spark Manager plugin for Openfire. The directory is \resources\spark\builds
So why not use the same flame you use for the taskbar when the spark window is active. Secondly the msi install changes the spark icon to the speech bubble everywhere (desktop, start menu, Add/Remove control panel, etc). The exe installer still has the flame everywhere except the system tray.
"… And it looks both in the TNA and in the task bar like there are some pixels missing on the left. It seems that this is caused by the design of the icon with 5 pixels on the left which do not make a good rounded shape. It looks like a flame where one did chop of a bit.
I guess that you did resize the image http://www.igniterealtime.org/fans/logo-spark.png without adding a left border before doing so. This looks really bad. So if one could add a left border and resize it again I would be much more happy."
LG
SPARK-822 for the ones who want to vote for a better-looking flame icon.